U.S History Chapter 9 Keyterms – Flashcards

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Progressivism
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reform movement
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Consensus
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broad agreement on how to improve american society now seemed possible
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Muckraker
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journalists who exposed corruption in businesses and politics
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Wisconsin Idea
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passed the 1st state income tax and corporate tax, and also set up a railroad commission
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Upton Sinclair
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muckraker who wrote " the jungle "
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Lincoln Steffens
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condemned the mismanagement of city governments
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Ida Tarbell
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editor, historian, muckraker, and also the daughter of a Pennsylvania oil driller
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Frances Perkins
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pioneer in the male-oriented world of politics and also the daughter of a factory owner.
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Robert M. La Follette
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governor of Wisconsin , who can up with the " Wisconsin idea "
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city commission
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a board of perhaps five citizens elected by voters to run the city
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city manager
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this person was hired by the city commission or city council to run the city
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initative
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gave voters the power to propose a bill and present it to the legislature for a vote
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referendum
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public voted on a bill offered by the legislature
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recall
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allowed voters to remove a public official from office before the next scheduled election
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primary system
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gave party members the chance to choose their party's candidates for office
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yellow dog contract
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stated that workers did not belong to a Union and promised not to join one
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Louis D. Brandeis
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famous Boston lawyer (Muller vs. Oregon)
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suffrage
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voting rights
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progressive tax
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one that assigns higher tax rates to people with higher incomes
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prohibition
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banning the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages
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Equal Rights Amendment
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"equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged (reduced) by the United States nor by any State on account of sex."
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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president of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson's administration
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Carrie Nation
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"the kansas cyclone" she launched a violent one woman crusade against alcohol
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A pioneer in the women's suffrage movement, she helped organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. She later helped edit the militant feminist magazine Revolution from 1868 - 1870.
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Susan B. Anthony
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Leader of woman suffrage movement, who helped to define the movement's goals and beliefs and to lead its actions
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Lucy Stone
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American suffragist who founded the American Women Suffrage Association.
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Alice Paul
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head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.
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