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| Introduced in 1908 by Henry Ford, four-cylinder machine that was the key to mass production by the use of assembly lines. |
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| Between 1907 and 1911, executives of American steel manufacturers gathered in a series of social events and meetings. At the meetings, the participants announced the prices they intended to charge, but made no promises that they would adhere to those prices, it brought suit in 1911, asking the court to dissolve U.S. Steel as an illegal monopoly. In 1915, the trial court held that the dinners amounted to price fixing, but that U.S. Steel's resort to them only proved that the firm could not control steel prices on its own and therefore could not have monopolized the industry. In 1920, the Supreme Court affirmed. |
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| Inventive mechanical enginner who strove to extract maximum efficiency from each worker. Helped define the scientific labor mangagement. pg 426 |
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Company |
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| Place of a deadly fire in March 1911, the fire focused attention on unsafe working conditions. 146 people died. |
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| Rural Free Deliver, delivery of mail to farmhouse doors, begun in 1896, helped dimish the farmers' sense of isolation, opening their lives to urban thinking, national and political events. |
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| Of 1921, Act passed by social feminists to establish humanitarian reforms. The act provided federal aid to establish state programs for maternal and infant health care. |
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| A Nurse and an outspoken social reformer led a campaign to give physicians broad discretion in perscribing contraceptives. Her efforts where resisted by the imposition of a ban on interestate transportation of contraceptive devices and info. under the federal comstock law. |
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| Women Trade Union League. founded in 1903, worked to organize women into trade unions. Lobbied for laws to safeguard female workers and backed several successful strikes, especially in the garment industry. |
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| Industrial workers of the world IWW. Founded in 1905, radical union aimed to unite the American working class into one union to promote labor's interests. It worked to organize unskilled and foreign-born laborers, advocated social revolution and led several major strikes |
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| founded by Henry Ford on jan. 5 1914. Doubled the wage rate for common labor reducing the work day from nine hours to eight, and est. a personnel department to place workers in appropiate jobs. turnover declined; asbsenteeism fell;output increased; IWW collapsed. |
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| Women's Christian Temperance Union, formed in 1874 by Francis E. Willard, to combat the consumption of alcohol. Campaigned to end drunkness and the social ills that accompanied it. |
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| Doctrine that emerged in the early twentieth century, built largely on the ideas of psychologist and philosopher William James. Truth works for the individual. |
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| Governor of Wisconsin. Put together the Wisconsin Idea, established an industrial commission to regulate factory safety and sanitation, etc pg 448 |
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| Legal suit was brought upon by the Justice Department instructed by Roosevelt on Feb. 14 1902, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Mammoth holding copmany, controlled massive railroad networks. J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller were behind the company. |
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| Chief of Forest Service, Ballinger-Pinchot Affair. Pinchot withdrew from a sale and protested. pgs 453 439 |
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allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among states, created an exemption for non-apportioned direct taxes on income, which were held unconstitutional, limited congress's authority to levy an income tax by holding that, since taxes on real property were direct taxes, that taxes on income from those properties were direct taxes as well.
It was ratified on February 3, 1913. |
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| An early accomplishment of the Wilson administration, this law reduced tariff rates of the Payne-Aldrich law of 1909 by about 15%. It levied a graduated income tax to make up for the lsot revenue, removed duties from sugar, wool, and consumer goods. |
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| Adopted in 1920. Women can vote. 19th |
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| Unflattering term coined by Theodore Roosevelt to describe the writes who made a practice of exposing the wrongdoings of public figures. They flourished from 1903-09 exposing social and political problems and sparking reform pgs 423 |
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| led by W.E.B. Du Bios that focused on equal rights and the education of african american youth. |
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