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32 Cards in this Set
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Progressivism
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Problems that aroused from reform
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McClure's Magazine
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national magazine that talked about reform
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Muckrakers
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investigative journalists
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Lincoln Steffens
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wrote Tweed Days in St. Louis
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Ida Tarbell
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Daughter of an independent oil producer that was the only female student in a class of 40 males that graduated.
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Ray Stannard Baker
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toured the nation examining the plight of African Americans
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Theodore Dreiser
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depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners.
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Edith Wharton
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wrote about how the closed-mindedness of elite society leads a good-hearted heroine to social isolation and despair
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Herbert Croly
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argued that the government should use its regulatory and taxation powers to promote the welfare of all its citizens.
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Florence Kelley
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worked tirelessly for the cause of labor laws
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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A fire started in a factory and more by the time the firefighters arrived more than 140 workers perished in this fire.
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Rose Schneiderman
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A Women's Trade Union League organizer argued that only a strong working-class movement could bring real change to the workplace.
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freedom of contract
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freedom to negotiate the terms of their employment
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Muller v. Oregon
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an employer challanged the 10-hour-workday law that Florence Kelley had helped push through the Oregon legislature.
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Kelley asked the brother of Goldmark to argue the case.
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closed shop
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a workplace where all the employees must belong to a union.
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socialism
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the system under which the government or worker cooperatives own more factories, utilities and transportation and communications systems.
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Samuel Gompers
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led the AFL (american federation of labor)
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
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union that tried to organize unskilled workers
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open shop
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nonunion workplace
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Industrial Workers of the World
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opposed capitalism
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William "Big Bill" Haywood
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made claims for the working class
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Lawrence Veiller
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a settlement house worker that attacked irresponsible tenement owners
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Daniel Burnham
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a leading architect and city planner that produced a magnificent plan for redesigning Chicago.
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prohibition
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a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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led the crusade against alcohol
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Billy Sunday
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a former ballplayer turned Presbyterian evangelist
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18th Amendment
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which barred the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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One of the most influential African American leaders to emerge during this period
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National Urban League
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also fought to racial equality
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Society of American Indians
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most of them middle-class professionals
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Americanization
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process of preparing foreign-born residents for full U.S. citizenship
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