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Ch. 9 Vocab
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History
11th Grade
11/29/2012

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progressivism
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reform after unsafe working conditions and crowded cities took over the US
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McClure's Magazine
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national magazine
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muckrakers
Definition
what investigative journalists became known as
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Lincoln Steffens
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journalist marked the beginning of style of journalism
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Ida Tarbell
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first installment of "History of the Standard Oil Company"
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Ray Stannard Baker
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toured 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 gov't 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 for labor laws cause
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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140 workers die in this fire
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Rose Schneiderman
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a women't trade union leauge 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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case where an employer challenged the 10 hour workday that Florence Kelley had helped push through the Oregon legislature
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Louis D. Brandeis
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lawyer on case of Muller v. Oregon on Kelley's side
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closed shop
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a workplace where all employees must belong to a union
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socialism
Definition
system under which gov't or worker cooperatives own most factories
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Samuel Gompers
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led American Federation of Labor
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
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tried to organize unskilled workers
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open shop
Definition
nonunion workplace
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Industrial Workers of the World
Definition
industry that 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, attacked irresponsible tenement owners
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Daniel Burnham
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a leading architect and city planner 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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Women's Christian Temperance Union
Definition
led crusade against alcohol
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Billy Sunday
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former baseball player who became a Presbyterian evangelist
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Frances Willard
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headed WCTU from 1879-1898
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Eighteenth Amendment
Definition
prohibition passed
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Definition
influential African American leaders to emerge
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National Association fro the Advancement of Colored People
Definition
organization dedicated to ending racial discrimination
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National Urban League
Definition
also fought for racial equality
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Society of American Indians
Definition
50 middle class AM indians
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Americanization
Definition
process of preparing foreign-born residents for full US citizenship
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