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Gilded Age + Progressive Era
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05/07/2008

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Gold Standard Act
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Passed by Congress in 1900, this declared Gold as the nation's standard of currency
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Dingley Tariff
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Raised Avg. tariff duties to a record level
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Election of 1896
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Cemmented the voter realignment of 1894 and inititated a generation of Republican Rule
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William Jennings Bryan
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Nominee for the Anti-Cleaveland Silver Democrats. He defended Silver.
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William McKinley
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Democratic nominee for the election of 1896. He won the election and entered the white house under favorable conditions. Favored Gold system.
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Silver Democrats
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Anti-Cleveland Democrats who favored the use of silver coinage as oposed to Gold
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Battle of the Standards
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Election of 1896 was known as such because it involved gold and silver standards of value in the monetary system.
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Naturalism
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A kind of story writing that focuses on the environment of the charecter.
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Theodore Dreiser
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Naturalist writer who grimly portrayed a dark world in which human beings were tossed about by forces beyond their understanding or control. Wrote Sister Carrie.
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Realism
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The realistic portrayal and outlook on the world that was becomming popiular, especially in literature, at the end of t19th century
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Huck Finn
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1884 Mark Twain book that drew upon the way people actually acted and had a realistic narrative instead of a drmatazied one
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League for the protection of the Family
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Called for the compulsory education to get children out of factories and into classrooms. started by women in 1896.
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Muckrckers
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Unflattering term coined by rosevelt to describe the writers who made a practice out of exposing public figures
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Progressivism
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Movement for social change between the late 1890s and WWI. Its origins lay in a fear of big buisness and corrupt government and a desire to improve the lives of Americans. Progressives set out to cute the social ills brought about by industrialization and urbanization, social disorder and political corruption.
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Model T
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Henry Ford's affordable car that was put on a mass production assembly line. Eleven thousand were sold the first year because it was really the first car available to the common man.
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Henry Ford
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Used to make luxury racing cars until he realized he could make more money in mass producing cheap cars for the common man. "I'm going to democratize the automobile"
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Trust
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One of a board of trustees who is responsable for all things financial in a company
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Oligopoly
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Result of this trend in trusts, instead of a bunch of companies in a buisness there was a few major giants in each industry and a handful of holding companies
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J.P. Morgan
Definition
hough the trend has been overstated, finance capitalsts such as J.P. Morgan tended to replace the industrial capitalists of an earlier era. Able to finance the mergers and reorganizations, investment bankers played a greater and greater role in the economy. His company operated a network that ran from New York to every industrial financial center in the nation.
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Assembly Lines
Definition
A tool used by companies to speed up production and make every product the same as the last.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Definition
IN March 1911 there was a fire in the NY company which focused attention on unsafe working conditions. Seamstresses were trapped in the building because exit doors had been closed and locked by the company to prevent theft and to shut out union organizers. Many died in the stampede down the narrow stairways or the single fire escape. Others jumped to their death. 146 died.
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Rural Free Delivery
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Rural Free Deliver: delivery of mail to yhe farmhouse door, bgun in 1896 - helped to diminish the gap between their lives on the farm and the industries. RFD was not only a sign of their acceptance of industrialization but it was also advertized in magazines.
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Mary E. Lease
Definition
Once part of the populist movement, then she sold out and moved to Brooklyn.
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Margaret Sanger
Definition
Lead a campaign to give physicians broad discretion in prescribing contraceptives. Her efforts were resisted by the imposition of a ban on interstate transportation contraceptive devices and information under the FEDERAL COMSTOCK LAW
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Mother's Day
Definition
First celebrated formally in 1913, Mother's day was used to keep women in the home as opposed to working
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Woman's Trade Union League
Definition
Founded in 1903 this organiation worked to organize women into trade unions. It also lobbied for laws to sade-gaurd female workers and backed several successful strikes, especially in the garment buisness.
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Industrial Workers of the World
Definition
Founded in 1905, this radical union, also known as the WOBBLIES, aimed to unite the American working class into one union to promote labor's interests. It worked to organize unskilled and foreign-born laborers , advocated social revolution, and led several major strikes.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Definition
After going away for a few months and leaving Taft in charge, Roosevelt came back to find that his good friends presidency had gone wrong and disowned him as a friend. This displayed just how much people loved him.
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William H. Taft
Definition
Took the presidency after Roosevelt, Taft was shocked when he tried to push Roosevelt's policies but didn't reach through to the public. Under him the Conservitive and the progressive wings of the republican party split and Taft tended to side with the conservatives instead of remaining nuteral.
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Progressive Party
Definition
Roosevelt looked to the progrssive party to "unseat" Taftbecause he knew that they disliked him.
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Election of 1912
Definition
Taft vs. Roosevelt vs. Wilson the election became a forum for American's concern about the social and economic effects of urban industrial growth. Each candidate offered a different vision of the future, and each expressed an aspect of progressive reform.
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Progressivism
Definition
A new MO that dominated the early 20th century, this doctrine dominated American life. It brought about new social science Young educated men and women were drawn to jobs and a new concern for the rights of the working man,woman, and child were all outcomes of this movemet.
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National Child Labor Committee
Definition
Lobbied for legislation to regulate the employment and working conditions of children.
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American Medical Association
Definition
Association that chn=anged the face of medicine by making it a profession as opposed to a lenient practice. This asscosation banded all the Doctors together and made requiremnts for the practice as opposed to it being just a simple career choice.
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National Education Association:
Definition
Pressed for teacher certification and compulsory education laws.
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National Federation of Settlements
Definition
Social Workers created this.
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National Association of Colored Women
Definition
The first black sponsered social service agency in the nation, founded 1895.
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Social-Justice movement:
Definition
During the 1980s and after, this important movement attracted followers who sought to free people from the often devistating impact of urban life. It focused on the need for tenement house laws, more strinngent child labor regulations, and better working conditions for women. Social-justice reformers also put pressure on municipal agencies for better community services and facilities.
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Pragmatism
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A doctrine that emerged in the eraly twentieth century, built laregly on the ideas of William James,. Pragmatiststs were impatient with theories that held truth to be abstract; they believed that truth should work for the individual. They also beleieved that people were not nly shaped by their environment but also helped to shape it. Ideas that worked became truth.
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Muller V. Oregon
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This 1908 Supreme Court decision established special protection for working women, upholding an Oregan law that limited women working in factories and laundries to a ten hour workday
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Brandeis breif
Definition
Filed by attorney Loouis D. Brandeis in the 1908 supreme court case of Muller v Oregon, this brief presnted only two paged of legal precedents, but 102 pages of socological evidence on the negative effects of long workdays on women's health and thus on women as mothers. The brief expanded the defination of legal evidence.
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National Municipal League
Definition
Forum for debate over the vivic reform, changes in the tax laws, and municipal ownerrship of public utilities.
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Robert M Lafollette
Definition
became the most famous of a group that inckudeded Hiram Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, and Charles Evans Hughes in New York. In 1901, La Follette became Govenor of Wisconson. In the following six years he put together the Wisconson Idea. He Established industrial commision to regulate factory safety and sanitation; improvisional education, workers compensation public utility controls, and resource conservation. Lowered railroad rates + first to adopt a state income tax.
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