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The movement in the late 1800s to increase democracy in America by curbing the power of the corporation. It fought to end corruption in government and business, and worked to bring equal rights of women and other groups that had been left behind during the industrial revolution.
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progressivism
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was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named
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RE Olds
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the first widely available automobile powered by a gasoline engine
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Model T
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nickname for the Model T
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Tin Lizzie
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What company in the conglomerate that started RCA really pushed its use?
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United Fruit
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company which created one of the first corporate labs in 1900 to lessen their gov't dependency
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General Electric
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American mechanical engineer, who wanted to improve industrial efficiency. He is known as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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also referred to as Taylorism, scientific management sought to reduce waste and inefficiency in production by measuring every movement and regulating every step of the work process
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"Principles of Scientific Management"
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location of 1911 fire tragedy that killed more than 140 workers
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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.
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Women's Trade Union League and National Consumers League; Gave female reformers a national stage for social investigation.
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WTUL
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Rural Free Delivery
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RFD
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an organization that eventually eradicated the hookworm disease
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Rockefeller Sanitary Commission
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1902 act authorizing federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects, mainly in the dry Western states
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Newlands Act
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The Treason of the Senate,A muckraker novel, it publicized corruption in the Senate after doing research on government leaders.
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David Graham Phillips
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U.S. Act of Congress providing federal funding for maternity and child care, a response to the lack of adequate medical care for women and children
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Sheppard-Towner Act
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United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
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Margaret Sanger
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A group of black and white reformers who organized the NAACP in 1909
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Niagara Movement
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to work for racial equality
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NAACP
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Fifteenth Amendment- declared Grandfather Clause unconstitutional
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Guinn v US
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held that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to African Americans violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which protected freedom of contract
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Buchanon v Warley
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A term used for Italian labor contractors.
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padroni
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the king of greeks in utah
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Leonidas Skliris
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immigrants who arrived between 1820-1900 who evetually returned to their country of origin
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Birds of Passage
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assimilation into American culture
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Americanization
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people who smuggle illegal immigrants across the border for cash
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coyotes
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a crowded inner-city area
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barrios
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United States labor leader (born in England) who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 to 1924 (1850-1924)
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Samuel Gompers
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Industrial workers of the world, most radical group. Under Haywood, envisioned utopian state run by workers. Small group, but accepted blacks, women, and immigrants
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IWW (Wobblies)
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Leader of the IWW
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Bill Haywood
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the payment by Ford after mass production and the assembly line had increased productivity. Ford announced this increase in wages, decrease in maximum hours, and establishment of a personnel department.
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Five Dollar Day
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textile mill; produced nearly 50 miles of cloth per hour; looked for total loyalty in return of treating workers as children; employess took pride in their work - well-turned-out product provided dignity and self-esteem
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Amoskeag
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United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989)
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Irving Berlin
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groundbreaking American film director, directed The Birth of a Nation
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DW Griffith
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American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
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ASCAP
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early 20th-century United States painting
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Ashcan School
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