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AP US Chapter 21 - Progressive
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02/28/2006

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3 Progressive Reforms
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initiative-permitted voters to propose new laws... referendum-enabled voters to accept or reject a law... recall-allowed voters to remove offending officials before term end
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Municipal Voters' League, US chamber of commerce
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social justice group
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Florence Kelley
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joined Socialist party
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Eugene V. Debs
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American Railway Union organizer - turned to socialist movement and UNITED - leader
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Reform - regionally
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West - RR, S - big business and corporations, NE and MW - corrupt politics and unsafe labor
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Robert M. La Folette
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Wisconsin governor, most forceful Progressive governor: direct primaries, equitable taxes, regulation of RR rates
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Governor Hiram Johnson
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governor, CA, leading western Progressive who promoted discrimination
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17th Amendment
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direct election of senators
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18th Amendment
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Temperance
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Mann Act
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AKA White Slave Traffic Act (1910)
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John Dewey
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modern education should emphasize personal development
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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associate justice of the Supreme Court (1902-1932)
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Lochner v. NY
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revoked NY law limiting bakers hours
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Holden v. Hardy
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(1898) mining regulations
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Social Gospel
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led by Protestant ministers - countered brutality of vompetitive capitalism by putting Xtian churches into everyday matters
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Booker T. Washington
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advocated "self-help" for blacks, voicing views at Atlanta Exposition
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Atlanta Compromise
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Booker T. Washington's speech at Atlanta convention
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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"Anti-Bookerite" - convened at Niagra Convention to counter Washington's ideals. pledged militant pursuit of rights like unrestricted voting, ec. opp., and integration/equality under law
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Niagara Conference
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group led by WEB Du Bois - anti-Bookerite, met annually
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NAACP
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founded by Booker T. Washington, aimed to end racial discrimination and obtain voting rights
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Society of American Indians (SAI)
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worked for civil rights, better education, heathcare. faced pressure between tribal allegiance and assimilation...fizzled and collapsed due to greediness within
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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articulated goals of the feminist mvmt in book "WOMEN AND ECONOMICS"
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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led by Carrie Chapman Catt
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National Woman's Party
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Alice Paul
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Harriot Blatch
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led suffrage mvmt
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Hepburn Act
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1906 - gave the ICC more freedom to control RR rates
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Newlands Reclamation Act
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controlled sales of irrigated land in the west
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Gifford Pinchot
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head of US forest service
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
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restored tarrif cuts that Taft made in the beginning of his presidency - Progressives disapproved
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16th Amendment
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income tax
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Mann-Elkins Act
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helped ICC powers and supported labor reforms
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National Progressive Republican League
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led by La Folette - split from Taft's faction while TR was in Africa
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New Nationalism
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TR - new era where the gov’t coordinates and regulates the economy. Big business can stay, but protect people through commissions of experts that will serve the interests of consumers
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New Freedom
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Wilson - get rid of concentrated economic power altogether and make the marketplace open for competition. won’t go back to laissez-faire, though; keep regulating it. But, no cooperation between business and gov’t
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Clayton Anti-Trust act (1914)
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under Wilson, outlawed monopolistic practice
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Federal Trade Commission
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created by Wilson to investigate companies
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Federal Reserve Act (1913)
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established another nat’l bank and district banks
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Underwood Tariff (1913)
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encouraged imports [to help consumers] and instituted a graduated income tax on residents
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Adamson Act
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mandated an eight-hour-workday and overtime pay for RR workers; Wilson also regulated child labor and provided workers’ compensation.
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