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5860244877purpose of the progressive movement-to use the government as an agency of human welfare -to cleanse capitolism -to increase democracy0
5860244878Progressive roots in....Populist and Greenback parties1
5860244879socialist and feminists start to gain...strength; enter the progressive movement2
5860244880muckrakersJournalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public3
5860244881trusta big business or monoply4
5860244882Charles Evans Hughesprominent politician and went after gas and oil co.s5
5860244883Jacob Riismuckraker; wrote how the other half lives6
5860244884Lincoln Steffansunmasked corrupt alliances between big buisnesses and local gov'ts7
5860244885Ida TarbellPublished a series of articles critical of the Standard Oil Company8
5860244886David g. Phillipsboldly charged that 75 of the 90 senators represented the railroads and trusts, not the people.9
5860244887Ray Stannard Bakerwrote about the literacy of blacks10
5860244888Thomas W. Lawsonexposed corrupt amassing of American fortunes11
5860244889Harvey W. Wileyexposed the frauds that sold patent medicines by experimenting on himself12
5860244890saying about muckrakers<>13
5860244891muckrakers beliefthe cure to the ills of american democracy you needed more democracy14
5860244892plutocracygov't for the rich people15
5860244893feelings of the middle classsquished by the rich and the poor16
58602448941913 17th amendmentdirect election of senators17
5860244895Secret Ballotfor elections and direct elections of senators18
5860244896city manager systemdesigned to take politics out of city gov't19
5860244897urban reformers tackledslumlords; juvenile deliquency; and prostitution20
5860244898Robert LaFolletgoverner of Wisconsin; returned power to the people21
5860244899Triangle Shirtwiaest Factorylocation of deadly fire; key to federal regulations of saeftey for workers22
5860244900Louis BrandiesIn Muller v. Oregon, he was a Massachusetts attorney who persuaded the Supreme Court to accept constitutionality of laws protecting women workers by presenting evidence of bad effects of factory labor on weaker woman bodies.23
5860244901Effect of the Muller v. Oregonwomen were not hired for many jobs; they went to men24
586024490218th Amendment in 1919prohibited the sale and use of alcohol25
5860244903Womens groups opposed the drinking of alcohol and helped with probitionWomens Christian Temperance Union26
5860244904Frances E. Willardbecame leader of the Womens Christian Temperance Union. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. Also worked to outlaw saloons as step towards strengthening democracy.27
5860244905the three C's (sq. deal for labor)Control of the corperations Consumer protection Conservation of the US natural resources28
58602449061902 Coal Mine Strike (what happened)coal miners wanted 9 hr work day and a 20% pay raise29
58602449071902 Coal Mine Strike (what did TR do)Threatened to take the mines with the military and use them with the military running them.30
58602449081902 Coal Mine Strike (importance)first time gov't sided with the people and not the big buisnesses.31
5860244909Upton Sinclairmuckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago.32

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