history ch 18 – Flashcards
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Progressivism
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focused on urban areas and problems such as plight of workers, poor sanitation, and corrupt political machines
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mcclure's magazine
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published progressive journalist's stories
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muckrakers
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investigative journalists that "raked up" and exposed the muck or filth or society
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Ida Tarbell
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investigated Rockefellers Standard Oil Company and published 19 articles on its business practices
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Ray Stannard Baker
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his book described a lynching in Springfield, Ohio.
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Theodore Dreiser
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depicted the 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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political theorists that argues that the government should use its regulatory and taxation powers to promote the welfare of all its citizens
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Florence Kelly
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worked for reforms with women and child laborers; helped to organize the National Child Labor Committee
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Rose Schneiderman
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a Women's Trade Union League organizer who 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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the freedom to negotiate the terms of their employment
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Muller vs. Oregon
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an employer challenged the 10 hour workday
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Closed shop
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a workplace where all the employees must belong to a union
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Socialism
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the system under which the government or worker cooperatives own most factories, utilities, and transportation and communications systems
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American Federation of Labor
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AFL - • Excluded unskilled workers
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
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The ILGWU - jewish and Italian immigrant women / open shop
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Industrial Workers of the World
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The IWW - • Enlisted all people
