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| 6014125488 | Progressive Issue | The opponents of Medicare and Medicaid rejected such national health assistance. | 0 | |
| 6014125489 | Jane Addams & Hull House | Leader in women's suffrage and world peace one of the most prominent reformers of the Progressive Era; a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams. | 1 | |
| 6014125490 | Settlement house movement | Creation of places that offered social services to urban poor - often food, shelter, and basic higher education - Hull House was most famous. | 2 | |
| 6014125491 | Social Gospel | Movement led by Washington Gladden - taught religion and human dignity would help the middle class over come problems of industrialization. | 3 | |
| 6014125492 | "Fighting" Bob La Follette | This guy did not mean to smash corporations, but merely drive them out of politics and then to treat them exactly the same as other people are treated | 4 | |
| 6014125493 | Pragmatism | A philosophy which focuses only on the outcomes and effects of processes and situations. | 5 | |
| 6014125494 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | His reasoning was known as Legal Realism, it rested on his conviction that the "life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." | 6 | |
| 6014125495 | Muckrakers | A group of investigative reporters who pointed out the abuses of big business and the corruption of urban politics; included Frank Norris (The Octopus) Ida Tarbell (A history of the standard oil company) Lincoln Steffens (the shame of the cities) and Upton Sinclair (The Jungle). | 7 | |
| 6014125496 | Florence Kelly | Active in the settlement house movement and led progressive labor reforms for women and children. | 8 | |
| 6014125497 | Muller v Oregon 1908 | First case to use the "Brandeis brief"; recognized a 10-hour work day for women laundry workers on the grounds of health and community concerns. | 9 | |
| 6014125498 | National American Women's Suffrage Association | Pro-suffrage organization formed by the joining of the national woman suffrage association and the american woman suffrage association. Organization established in 1890 to promote woman suffrage; stressed that women's special virtue made them indispensable to politics. | 10 | |
| 6014125499 | Urban liberalism | The idea that unions and politicians would work together to improve conditions for workers. | 11 | |
| 6014125500 | Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire | March 1911 fire in New York factory that trapped young women workers inside locked exit doors; nearly 50 ended up jumping to their death; while 100 died inside the factory; led to the establishment of many factory reforms, including increasing safety precautions for workers. | 12 | |
| 6014125501 | Socialist Party | Political Party in the United States which supports socialism - working people own and control the means of production and distribution through democratically- controlled public agencies, cooperatives, or other collective groups. | 13 | |
| 6014125502 | Eugene V. Debs | Leader of the American Railway Union, he voted to aid workers in the Pullman strike. He was jailed for six months for disobeying a court order after the strike was over. | 14 | |
| 6014125503 | Anti-Saloon league | Organization founded in 1893 that increased public awareness of the social effects of alcohol on society; supported politicians who favored prohibition and promoted statewide referendums in Western and Southern states to ban alcohol. | 15 | |
| 6014125504 | Volunteerism | During World War II, many on the home front were called upon to volunteer and assist the war effort. This included buying of war bonds, conserving raw materials, and planting Victory gardens. | 16 | |
| 6014125505 | Direct primary | Direct primary:The direct primary expressed La Follett's democratic idealism, but it also suited his particular political talents. | 17 | |
| 6014125506 | Initiative Recall | The initiative enabled citizens to have issues placed on the ballot; the recall empowered them to remove officeholders who had lost the public's confidence. | 18 | |
| 6014125507 | Booker T. Washington | African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality. | 19 | |
| 6014125508 | Atlanta Compromise | Argument put forward by Booker T. Washington that African-Americans should not focus on civil rights or social equality but concentrate on economic self-improvement | 20 | |
| 6014125509 | WEB DuBois | Opposed Booker T. Washington. Wanted social and political integration as well as higher education for 10% of African Americans-what he called a "Talented Tenth". Founder of the Niagara Movement which led to the creation of the NAACP. | 21 | |
| 6014125510 | Niagara Movement | W.E.B. Du Bois and other young activists, who did not believe in accommodation, came together at Niagara Falls in 1905 to demand full black equality. Demanded that African Americans get right to vote in states where it had been taken away, segregation be abolished, and many discriminatory barriers be removed. Declared commitment for freedom of speech, brotherhood of all peoples, and respect for workingman. | 22 | |
| 6014125511 | NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional. | 23 | |
| 6014125512 | The Crisis | A pamphlet written by Tom Paine during the darkest days of the Revolution for the Patriots that spurred them to keep fighting. "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot...". | 24 | |
| 6014125513 | National Urban League | Tried to improve job opportunities and housing for African Americans especially for migrants moving north from the southern states; worked closely with NAACP to achieve its goals; "Not Alms But Opportunity". | 25 | |
| 6014125514 | Teddy Roosevelt | 26th President, from 1901-1909, passed two acts that purified meat, took over in 1901 when McKinley was shot, Went after trusts, formed the "Bull Moose Party", wanted to build the Panama canal, and make our Navy stronger. | 26 | |
| 6014125515 | McKinley's assassination | After winning the election of 1900 he was killed by an anarchist while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He died a week later, and Vice President Roosevelt was sworn in as president. | 27 | |
| 6014125516 | Leon Czolgosz | This anarchist, who assassinated President William McKinley, worked for a time at a nail factory in Charleston. | 28 | |
| 6014125517 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions. | 29 | |
| 6014125518 | Elkins Act 1903 | Sponsored by President Theodore Roosevelt, provided for the regulation of interstate railroads. The act forbade rebates or other rate reductions to shipping companies. Railroads were not allowed to offer rates different from the published rates. | 30 | |
| 6014125519 | Hepburn Railway Act | A 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. It empowered the ICC to set maximum shipping rates and prescribe uniform methods of bookkeeping. | 31 | |
| 6014125520 | Conservationism | Teddy Roosevelt did not object to using the country's natural resources for human production. He did want to protect the environment to insure resources would be replenished and not get depleted. This is his view of the environment. | 32 | |
| 6014125521 | Public Lands Commission 1902 | In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed the commission to propose rules for land development and management. | 33 | |
| 6014125522 | Upton Sinclair, The Jungle | The author who wrote a book about the horrors of food productions in 1906, the bad quality of meat and the dangerous working conditions. | 34 | |
| 6014125523 | Roosevelt's Square Deal | Roosevelt ran for president in his own rights in 1904. During the campaign, he promised Americans this. By this, he meant that everyone from farmers to consumers to workers to owners would have the same opportunity to succeed. That promise helped Roosevelt conquer a huge victory. | 35 | |
| 6014125524 | William Howard Taft | He was endorsed by Roosevelt because he pledged to carry on progressive program, then he didn't appoint any Progressives to the Cabinet, actively pursued anti-trust law suits, appoints Richard Ballinger as Secretary of the Interior, Ballinger opposed conservation and favored business interests, Taft fires Gifford Pinchot (head of U.S. forestry), ran for re-election in 1912 but lost to Wilson. | 36 | |
| 6014125525 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act 1909 | Lowered tariff rates but enacted a corporation tax. | 37 | |
| 6014125526 | Bull Moose Party | Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912. | 38 | |
| 6014125527 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize. | 39 | |
| 6014125528 | Underwood Tariff Act 1913 | Law that lowered tariff rates, most importantly made/ enacted 16th amendment by instituting law for the first regular federal income tax. | 40 | |
| 6014125529 | Federal Reserve Act 1913 | This act created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal Reserve Board. It was an attempt to provide the United States with a sound yet flexible currency. The Board it created still plays a vital role in the American economy today. | 41 | |
| 6014125530 | Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914 | New antitrust legislation constructed to remedy deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act, namely, it's effectiveness against labor unions. | 42 | |
| 6014125531 | Ludlow Massacre | The violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado in the on April 20, 1914. | 43 | |
| 6014125532 | US Commission on Industrial Relations | Was a commission created by the U.S. Congress on August 23, 1912 to scrutinize US labor law. The commission studied work conditions throughout the industrial United States between 1913 and 1915. The final report of the Commission, published in eleven volumes in 1916, contain tens of thousands of pages of testimony from a wide range of witnesses. | 44 |
