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American Pageant 26

Trainor- AP United States History

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Thorstein Veblen Eccentric economist who criticized the wealthy for "conspicuous consumption" and failure to serve real human needs
Lincoln Steffens early muckraker who exposed the political corruption in many american cities
Ida Tarbell leading muckraking journalist whose articles documented the standard oil company's abuse of power
Seventeenth Amendment progressive measure that required u.s. senators to be elected directly by the people rather than by state legislators
Robert La Follette the most influential of the state-level progressive governors and a presidential aspirant in 1912
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire new york city disaster that underscoredf urban workers' need for government protection
Anthracite coal strike dangerous labor conflict resolved by rooseveltian negotiation and threats against business people
Meat Inspection Act of 1906 progressive law aimed at curbing practices like those exposed in upton sinclair's the jungle
Muller vs. Oregon case that upheld protective legislation on the grounds of women's supposed physical weakness
William Howard Taft politically inept inheritor of the roosevelt legacy who ended up allied with the reactionary republican "old guard"
Lochner vs. New York supreme court ruling that overturned a progressive law mandating a ten-hour workday
Giffford Pinchot proconservation federal official whose dismissal by taft angered roosevelt progressives
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