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| EXPLAIN WHAT JANE ADDAMS AND THE OTHER REFORMERS WHO LIVED AT HULL HOUSE HOPED TO ACCOMPLISH |
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Definition
| She wanted to help her immigrant neighbors, and she wanted to offer an opportunity for educated women like herself to find meaningful work. |
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| ID THE GENERAL GOALS THAT CHARACTERIZED THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT |
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Definition
| advocated government activism to mitigate the problems created by urban industrialism. Progressivism reached its peak in 1912 with the creation of the Progressive Party, which ran Theodore Roosevelt for president. The term progressivism has come to mean any general effort advocating for social welfare programs. |
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| DISCUSS HOW PROGRESSIVE REFORMERS SOUGHT TO ATTACK THE PROBLEMS IN THE CITIES |
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Definition
| sought to remove some of the worst evils of urban industrialism—tenements, child labor, and harsh working conditions. |
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| COMPARE THE MEANING OF SOCIAL GOSPEL WITH GOSPEL OF WEALTH |
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Definition
SOCIAL GOSPEL religious movement founded on the idea that Christians have a responsibility to reform society as well as individuals. - put Christ's teachings to work in their daily lives by actively promoting social justice.
GOSPEL OF WEALTH The idea that wealth garnered from earthly success should be used for good works. |
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| LIST THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE WTUL TO THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST CO. STRIKE OF 1909-1910 |
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Definition
| It provided volunteers for the picket lines, posted more than $29,000 in bail, protested police brutality, organized a parade of ten thousand strikers, took part in the arbitration conference, appealed for funds, and generated publicity for the strike. |
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| ID THE VARIOUS STRANDS OF THE REFORM DARWINISM THEORY THAT SERVED AS A FOUNDATION FOR PROGRESSIVE PRAGMATISM |
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| evolution could be advanced more rapidly if men and women used their intellects to alter the environment. |
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| NAME THE TWO PROGRESSIVE PHILOSOPHERS WHO ORIGINATED THE IDEA OF PRAGMATISM |
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Definition
| William James and John Dewey |
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Term
| EXPLAIN TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S TRUST POLICY AND HOW HE ENFORCED IT |
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Definition
* use the Sherman Act against forty-three trusts. He would punish “bad” trusts (those that broke the law) and leave “good” ones alone. In practice, he preferred regulation to antitrust suits. In 1903, he pressured
* he pressured Congress to pass the Elkins Act, outlawing railroad rebates. |
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Term
| NAME THE PIONEERING PHOTOJOURNALIST AND THE BOOK HE WROTE TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE SQUARLOR OF NY'S SLUMS |
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| JACOB RIIS' HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES |
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| LIST THE LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF ROOSEVELT'S SECOND TERM |
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* The Hepburn Act of 1905 increased the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroad rates
Read more: http://modern-us-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/roosevelts_second_term_1905_1909#ixzz0Ktl2utQV&C
* Employer Liability Act to address workplace related injuries in the railroad industry
Read more: http://modern-us-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/roosevelts_second_term_1905_1909#ixzz0Ktl7JxAp&C
* for passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
Read more: http://modern-us-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/roosevelts_second_term_1905_1909#ixzz0KtlG7LcN&C |
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Term
| DISCUSS HOW THE US GOT THE PANAMA CANAL |
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Definition
| At the prompting of a group of New York investors, the Panamanians staged an uprising in 1903, and with unseemly haste the U.S. government recognized the new government within twenty-four hours. The Panamanians promptly accepted the $10 million, and the building got under way. |
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| DESCRIBE WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT'S FOREIGN POLICY |
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Definition
Taft continued Roosevelt's policy of extending U.S. influence abroad, but here, too, Taft had a difficult time following in Roosevelt's footsteps
His policy of “dollar diplomacy” championed commercial goals rather than the strategic aims Roosevelt had pursued. Taft naively assumed he could substitute “dollars for bullets.” |
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| ID THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION'S DOMESTIC LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES |
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Definition
* The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 established a national banking system composed of twelve regional banks, privately controlled but regulated and supervised by the Federal Reserve Board, appointed by the president
* the Clayton Antitrust Act to outlaw “unfair competition”—practices such as price discrimination and interlocking directorates
* the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), precisely the kind of federal regulatory agency that Roosevelt had advocated in his New Nationalism platform |
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Term
| ID THE GROUPS LEFT OUT OF PROGRESSIVE REFORMS AND SHOW HOW THEY WERE LEFT OUT |
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Definition
| He failed to support labor's demand for an end to court injunctions against labor unions. He twice threatened to veto legislation providing farm credits for nonperishable crops. He refused to support child labor legislation or woman suffrage. |
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Term
| DISCUSS LEADERSHIP AND THE GOALS OF THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT |
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Definition
| Du Bois founded the Niagara movement in 1905, calling for universal male suffrage, civil rights, and leadership by a black intellectual elite. |
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