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APUSH - American Pageant - Ch 28
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10th Grade
01/03/2011

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What did the progressives fight against mainly?
Definition
*Monopoly
*Corruption
*Inefficiency
*Social Injustice
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What did the Progressives believe in?
Definition
*Strengthening the State
*Using Government as an agency of human wellfare
Term
Which previous parties led up to the Progressives?
Definition
*Greenback Labor Party
*Populists
Term
Who were:
*Henry Demarst Lloyd
*Eccentric Thorstein Veblin
*Jacob A. Riis
*Theodore Dreiser
Definition
*Authors who led the populist movement who wrote:
- "Wealth Against Commonwealth" (Attack on Standard Oil)
- "Theory of Leisure Class" (Attack on rich businessmen and women)
- "How the Other Half Lives" (Displayed the slum lifestyle to the middle class)
- "The Financier" & "The Titan" (Novels attacking the upper class)
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Who were:
*Jane Adams
*Lillian Wald
*Flourence Kelly
Definition
*Women who promoted the women's suffrage movement
*Jane Adams - Hull House
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*1st state of IL factory inspector
Term
Who were:
*Ida Tarbell
*Thomas W. Lawson
*David G. Phillips
*Ray Stannard Baker
*John Spargo
Definition
A muckraker who wrote an expose about
*the oil giant Standard Oil
*the practices of stock market traders
*the senators who represented the railroads as opposed to the people
*that said 1/3 of black children in the south were illiterate - ("Following the Color Line")
*the abuses of child labor - ("The Bitter Cry of the Children")
Term
What were the objectives of the progressive movement?
Definition
*Regain power to the people as opposed to the interests of big businesses.
*Rooting out graft
Term
What were some progressive laws that were passed?
Definition
*Initiative - voters could propose legislation
*Referendum- laws would have to be finally voted in by the people
*Recall - voters could throw out faithless elected officials
*Corrupt-practices acts - limited amount of money candidates could spend on campaign, restricted large donations from corporations
*Secret Australian Ballot - Others could not see what vote a certain person casted
*17th Ammend - direct election of U.S. Senators
*19th Ammend - women's right to vote
Term
What did the progressives fight at city level?
Definition
*Expert-staffed commissions or city-managers to keep a city working efficiently
*People who were brought under fire:
-Slumlords
-Juvenile delinquents
-Prostitutes
-the corrupt sale of franchises for streetcars and public utilities
Term
What did the progressives fight at the state level?
Definition
*Large Corporations
*Monopolies
*Railroad Interests
*Regulated public utilities
Term
Who were some important progressive governors and where were they from?
Definition
*Robert M. La Follette - Wisconsin
*Hiram W. Johnson - California
Charles Evan Hughes - New York
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What did women progressives fight?
Definition
*keeping children out of mills and sweatshops
*scourge and tuberculosis
*pensions for mothers
*safe food products
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What were some important women's progressive organizations?
Definition
*General Federation of Women's Clubs
*Women's Trade Union League
*National Consumer's League
*Children's Bureau
*Women's Bureau
*Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) - Frances E. Willard
Term
What were the following cases about?
"Muller vs. Oregon"
"Lochner vs. New York"
Definition
*Louis D. Bradeis persuaded Supreme Court to protect women who worked in factories
*Invalidated a New York law which had established a ten hour work day for bakers
Term
What was the WCTU?
Definition
*Founded by Frances E. Willard
*Anti-saloon league
*The largest organization of women in the world
*Aggressive, well organized, well financed
Term
What was TR's Square Deal?
Definition
*A fair dealing of the cards for capital, labor, and the public at large
*Three C's
-Control of Corporations
-Consumer Protection
-Conservation of Natural Resources
Term
What was the Anthracite Coal Mines Incident?
Definition
*mine workers went on strike for higher pay and shorter work hours
*Mine owners didn't comply
*TR called reps of the miners and factory owners to the white house
*TR threatens that he will seize the mines if the owners don't get them to work again
Term
What were the following acts about:
*Elkins Act
*Hepburn Act
Definition
*Fines for railroads that offered rebates to companies
*Free passes caused by bribery were restricted
Term
What was Northern Securities?
Definition
*A railroad holding company created by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill
*TR considered it to be a "bad" trust
*The supreme court decided to dissolve the company
*This case brandished TR as a trustbuster
Term
What was the point of all the trust bashing that TR did?
Definition
*It was to symbolize that big businesses did not control the people; the govt did.
*It was to tame the large corporations, not destroy them
*TR believed that some trusts were even good.
Term
Who was Upton Sinclair?
Definition
*The author of "The Jungle"; a book written to show the horrible working conditions of the meatpacking industry.
*He aimed for the nation's hearts but hit it in the mouth
Term
What were some of the results of "The Jungle"?
Definition
*Meat inspectors were created to see the horrible quality of the packing houses
*The Meat Inspection Act was passed
*The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed
Term
What was the Desert Land Act?
Definition
*A law where the govt sold arid land cheaply as long as the buyer could irrigate the ground in three years.
Term
What was the Forrest Reserve Act?
Definition
*A law where the president could set aside land as national forests and reserves.
*46 million acres were rescued due to this law
Term
What was the Carey Act?
Definition
*A law where the govt would give land out to states as long as the soil was irrigated and settled
Term
What was the Newlands Act?
Definition
*The govt was given the right to collect money from the sale of public lands to use for irrigation projects in the west.
Term
Who was Giffird Pinchot?
Definition
*The head of the Division of forestry
*A very important leader for the conservation of land
Term
What were some important organizations that popped up after TR's preservation of national land?
Definition
*Boy Scouts of America
*Sierra Club (dedicated to preserving forests)
*Forest Service
*Bureau of Reclamation
Term
What is the Aldrich-Vreeland Act?
Definition
*A law which allowed the national govt to issue money to banks in emergencies.
*This would eventually lead to the Federal Reserve Act.
Term
Who were the nominees of the 1908 election?
Definition
*Republican William Howard Taft
*Democrat William Jennings Bryan
Term
What was the Manchuria Incident?
Definition
*A series of railroads in China which were monopolized by Russia and Japan.
*Taft wanted to buy out the railroads as to provide favor from China to America
*Russia and Japan declined.
Term
What was the Payne-Aldrich Bill?
Definition
*A bill that raised tariffs prices
*This bill was the opposite of what he said he would do (reduce tariffs)
*He claimed the bill to be the best bill that the Republican party ever passed. Which it wasn't
Term
What were some conservational accomplishment of Taft?
Definition
*Bureau of Mines (saved large areas of land from mining)
*Protected water-power sites from private development
Term
What was the Ballinger-Pinchot Incident?
Definition
*Richard Ballinger opened large areas of land up to corporate development
*Giffort Picot criticized Ballinger for what he did
*Taft ignored Picot on the grounds of insobordination
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