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Lincoln Steffens   wrote The Shame of the Cities, exposed corruption in business and in city government. He was also known for his help in creating the muckraking movement along with Upton Sinclair, and Ida Tarbell.  
Ida Tarbell   wrote the History of the Standard Oil Company, which was about Rockefeller and his company’s corruption, and how it wiped out small businesses.  
Frederick Taylor   He was also joint discoverer of the Taylor-White process, which was a method of tempering steel, and he also wrote the Principles of Scientific Management, which explained his ideas of increasing efficiency and rewarding fast workers.  
Margaret Sanger   She was a leder in the fight for the use of birth control, and was an active leader in the birth control movement. She also founded the Planned Parenthood League to help poor mothers raise their children.  
Carrie Chapman Catt   suffrage leader, who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. She also helped to found the National League of Woman Voters, and was head of the National Committee  
Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones   mayor of Toledo who made many radical changes. He was against graft, corruption, and police brutality. He favored municipal civil service, open contracts, free kin dergartens, and playgrounds.  
Robert La Follette   Governor of Wisconsin and was nicknamed, “Mr. Progressive” because of his radical and progressive ideas. He curbed political bosses, taxed big businesses, and controlled the railroads. He was also a prominent leader in the Progressive Movement.  
Charles Evans Hughes   He was the governor of New York, who busted the insurance and gas companies. He was also a New York supreme court justice and was a candidate in the election of 1916.  
Hiram Johnson   He was the governor of California who busted the Big Four and re-introduced democracy in California, as well as he attempted to push progressive programs into law.  
Gifford Pinchot   An American forestry expert, conservationist, and public official, who served as the chief of the Division of Forestry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was also a professor of forestry at the Pinchot School of Forestry,  
Alton B. Parker   As jurist, he became well known for his liberal decisions in labor cases, and later he was nominated for the U.S. presidency on the Democratic party ticket in the election of 1904.  
Joe Cannon   in 1909, Taft appointed him Secretary of the Interior. While Secretary, he was accused by L. R. Glavis of the Land Office of having halted investigation into the legality of certain private coal-land claims in Alaska. The incident split the Republican par  
Louis Brandeis   as counsel for the people in proceedings involving the constitutionality of wages and hours laws in Oregon, Illinois, Ohio, and California. In Muller v. Oregon (1908) he persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court that minimum-hours legislation for women was reasona  
Triangle Shirtwaist Company   a fire broke out in a New York City sweatshop run by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. The disaster touched off a national movement for safer working conditions  
Social Gospel Movement   attempted to apply biblical teachings to problems associated with industrialization  
Muckraking   name applied to American journalists, novelists, and critics who in the first decade of the 20th cent. Attempted to expose the abuses of business and the corruption in politics.  
Wobblies   Industrial workers of the world  
Keating-Owen Act   The legislation forbade the transportation among states of products of factories, shops or canneries employing children under 14 years of age, of mines employing children under 16 years of age, and the products of any of these employing children under 16  
Niagara Movement   The Niagara Movement was the forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In the summer of 1905, 29 prominent blacks, including Du Bois, met secretly at Niagara Falls  
Australian Ballot   a secret ballot that was part of the Omaha Platform  
Referendum   a vote of the people which has already been passed by the legislature. A way to be conducted on controversial legislation.  
Initiative   was part of the Omaha platform and is used today. The public can initiate or put a law on the ballot to be voted on. This is done by collecting a specified number of signatures  
Recall   enables the voters to present a ballot to remove undesirable officials. The voters then vote whether or not to remove the official from office before the term is up.  
New Nationalism   a coherent platform of social and economic regulation.In response, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, formulated what he called the  
New Freedom   Federal power, he argued, should be used only to sweep away social, economic, and political privilege and to restore business competition  
Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act   enacted an across-the-board reduction in tariffs, making manufacturers more efficient and providing consumers with competitive pricing  
Federal Reserve Act   central banking system of the United States. Established in 1913, it began to operate in Nov., 1914. Its setup, although somewhat altered since its establishment, particularly by the Banking Act of 1935  
Federal Trade Commission   independent agency of the U.S. government established in 1915 and charged with keeping American business competition free and fair. The FTC has no jurisdiction over banks and common carriers,  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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