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Populist Platform (5)
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farmers of 1890's
Platform: 1) Free unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 ratio 2) Govt ownership of telephone, telegraph, RR 3) Direct election of senate 4) 1 term presidency 5) Initiative & referendum |
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Greenback Labor Movement
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Farmers in debt want to print more $ to cause inflation to make debts easier to pay off
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The Grange
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Started by Oliver Kelley
unite midwestern & southern farmers |
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Oliver Kelley
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Started the Grange: Coalition of midwestern & southern farmers
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Wabash Case
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Supr Ct said states do not have power to control interstate commerce
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Rebates/pools prohibited
RRs must publish rates openly Set up Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) |
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Farmers' Alliance
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Founded in TX
Like the Grange (wanted to break monopolies through cooperative buying and selling) |
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16th Amendment
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Graduated income tax
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17th Amendment
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Direct election of Senators
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James B. Weaver
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Populist Presidential Candidate in 1892
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Bland-Allison Law of 1878
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Silver purchase program where govt would buy limited amt of silver to back the dollar
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Sherman Silver Purchase
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Govt bought 4.5 mil oz and pay for it in $ redeemable on either silver or gold
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McKinley Tariff Bill of 1890
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Boosted rates to HIGHEST peacetime level 48.4% on dutiable goods
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William Jennings Bryan
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Wanted more silver to back the $
Cross of Gold speech: persecute farmers on cross of gold by backing dollar only with gold |
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Cross of Gold speech
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William Jennings Bryan
persecute farmers on cross of gold by backing dollar only with gold |
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De Facto Segregation
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Social & economic pressures not law caused segregation
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Lincoln Steffens
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Shame of the Cities
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Ida Tarbell
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History of Standard Oil Co.
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Upton Sinclair
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The Jungle
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Ray Stannard Baker
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Following the Color Line
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John Spargo
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The Bitter Cry of the Children
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Gustavus Myers
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History of the Great American Families
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Jacob A. Riis
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How the Other Half Lives
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Muckraker term coined by
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TR
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The Bitter Cry of the Children
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John Spargo
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History of the Great American Families
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Gustavus Myers
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How the Other Half Lives
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Jacob A. Riis
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Shame of the Cities
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Lincoln Steffens
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History of Standard Oil Co.
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Ida Tarbell
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The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
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Following the Color Line
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Ray Stannard Baker
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Initiative
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Voters directly PROPOSE legislation
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Referendum
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People VOTE directly on laws
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Recall
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Voters can REMOVE corrupt officials
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Women fought for these 2 causes
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Suffrage & Prohibition
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Progressive Platform (9)
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1. Intiative
2. Referendum 3. Recall 4. Women's Suffrage 5. Prohibition 6. Regulation of big business 7. Laborers' protection 8. Food and drug regulation 9. Conservation |
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Progressive Goals (2)
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1. Use gov't to limit powers of business
2. Remove threat of socialism by improving common man's conditions |
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Boss Tweed & Tammany Hall of NYC
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he would
control new immigrants that would be forever in debt to Tweed |
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Thomas Nast
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Muckraker political cartoonist
Harper's Weekly famous for Tweed caricature |
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Corrupt Practice Acts
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limit amt of $ candidates can spend on election campaign to curb corporation "gifts"/bribes
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Australian Ballot
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aka Secret Ballot
decreased power of political bosses |
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City-level Changes
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1. City commissioners to manage urban affairs
2. Slumlords must renovate housing |
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Robert LaFollette
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Wisconsin governor who ended corruption in RR & lumber industry
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Roosevelt's Square Deal
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Control of corporations
Consumer protection Conservation of natural resources |
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Anthracite coal mine strike
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Appalachians
Workers wanted 20% pay increase & 9 hr. shifts TR intervenes, SIDES WITH LABOR RATHER THAN BIG BUSINESS Get 10% pay increase & 9 hr. work day but workers' union not officially recog |
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Dept of Commerce & Labor
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Created by TR
Business of Corporations subset to trust-bust |
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Elkins Act of 1903
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Gave power to ICC
Removed use of rebate & est fines on RR companies receiving rebates |
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Hepburn Act of 1906
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Stop collaboration btw. shipping companies
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Northern Securities Co
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RR holding Co by James J. Hill & JP Morgan. Lost in Supr Ct to TR
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TR busted approx. ____ trusts
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40+ incl. beef, sugar, fertilizer
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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
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stop mislabeling of food & pharmaceuticals
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Meat Inspection Act of 1906
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govt can inspect meat shipped over state lines (Upton Sinclair's the Jungle)
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Newlands Reclamation Bill of 1902
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Irrigate western states after overgrazing
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Aldrich-Vreeland Act
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Allowed banks to release emergency currency
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Eugene V. Debs
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Ran against Taft as a socialist & received MANY POPULAR VOTES
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Taft busted approx ___trusts
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90+
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
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lowers tariff on some things but others (iron, coal, steel) went up. FAIL.
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Richard Ballinger
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Sec. of Interior who opens up large areas of west to corporate development
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Gifford Pinchot
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Chief of Agricultural Dept's Division of Forestry mad at Ballinger for opening up western land to corporations.
Taft fires him for insubordination |
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Bull Moose Party
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TR starts this party because Taft is Repub nominee
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TR's Bull Moose/Progressive Platform for 1912 election
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1. Consolidation of trusts & labor unions
2. Women's suffrage 3. Social welfare (min wage laws, universal health care, etc.) |
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Wilson (DEMOCRAT)'s New Freedom
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1. Small enterprise
2. Free, un-regulated and un-monopolized markets 3. NO social welfare 4. Break large trusts |
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Election of 1912
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1. Taft (R) trust busting
2. TR (bull moose/progressive) 3. Wilson (D) New Freedom 4. Eugene Debs (socialist) |
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Wilson attacks Triple Wall of Privilege
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Banks
Trusts Tariff |
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Underwood Tariff Bill
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Lowered protective tariffs
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Federal Reserve Act
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set up Fed Reserve Board to oversee 12 regional reserve banks
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Fed Trade Commission Act
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Created Fed Trade Commission to regulate interstate industries (trusts, false advertising, mislabeling, etc.)
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act
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Expanded powers of Sherman Anti-Trust.
*Excluded labor unions* *Legalized strikes & peaceful picketing* stopped price discrimination |
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Fed Farm Loan Act
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low interest rates for farmer loans
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Muller vs. Ogden
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Ct ruled IN FAVOR OF laws protecting women workers from harsh conditions.
strike against equality |
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Lockner vs. NY
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Ct. INVALIDATED law est. 10 hr work day for bakers b/c discriminated against bakers (some want to work 10+hrs).
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