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| 1. Progressivism | was a belief that honesty, new ideas, and hard working government would bring social justice
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| 2. muckraker | writes who were fascinated with the ugly side of things, name came from Theodore Roosevelt.
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| 3. Lincoln Steffens | a leading muckraker, who published the shame of the cities, which were a collection of articles on corrupt politics.
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| 4. Jacob Riis | a photographer for the New York Evening Sun. exposed the world to nasty tenements causing people to want reform.
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| 5. Social Gospel | Walter Rauschenbusch said if society followed the bibles teachings about charity and justice it would become "the kingdom of God"
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| 6. settlement house | community center that provided special services to the poor people in the cities.
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| 7. Jane Addams | was a leader in the settlement house movement. creator of the Hull House.
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| 8. direct primary | established by Robert M. La Follette, it was an election where citizens could vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.
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| 9. initiative | gave people power to put a proposed law on the ballot for the next election by collecting signatures on a petition.
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| 10. referendum | let citizens approve or reject laws that the legislature passed.
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| 11. recall | allowed voters to remove public servants before the term was over from office.
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| 12. Florence Kelley | a woman who believed that unfair prices on goods for women to buy hurt them.
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| 13. National Consumers League (NCL) | was founded by Florence Kelley. produced special labels that women bought instead of unsafe and unfair labels.
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| 14. temperance movement | a group that led the practice of never drinking alcohol, led by the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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| 15. Margaret Sanger | a women who believed that if women had less children family life and women's health would improve
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| 16. Ida B. Wells | a woman who formed the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) also protested against lynching.
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| 17. suffrage | right for women to vote.
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| 18. Carrie Chapman Catt. | a lady who re-energized national suffrage. encouraged women to join the National American Woman Suffrage Association
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| 19. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) | was lead by Carrie Chapman Catt. urged woman to join this group in hope of changing women's rights.
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| 20. Alice Paul | a social activist, raised in a Quaker home, organized many women to recruit others across the nation for suffrage movement.
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| 21. Nineteenth Amendment | gave the right to vote for everyone and not being denied on a person's sex
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| 22. Americanization | taught immigrants English and wanted to change how they lived.
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| 23. Booker T. Washington | a man who told blacks to not rush the racial progress
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| 24. W.E.B. Du Bois | urged African Americans to demand their rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
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| 25. Niagara Movement | a group that denounced the idea of gradual progress
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| 26. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | was a group aimed at helping African Americans to be free from unjustice.
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| 27. Urban League | a group focused on poorer workers.
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| 28. Anti-Defamation League | a group whose goal is to defend Jews against physical and verbal abuse.
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| 29. mutualistas | Mexican Americans who provided loans and legal assistance.
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| 30. Theodore Roosevelt | was president, had the reputation of being smart, energetic, and opinionated
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| 31. Square Deal | a program that had the goals to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of the struggling poor
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| 32. Hepburn Act | gave the ICC enforcement powers for example the government had authority to set and limit shipping costs.
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| 33. Meat Inspection Act | federal agents had to inspect meat sold across state lines and also required them to inspect the meat-processing plants
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| 34. Pure food and Drug Act | placed mutual controls of foods and medicine. FDA was created.
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| 35. John Muir | a man whose efforts led Congress to create Yosemite National Park
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| 36. Gifford Pinchot | a man who led the Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture in the United States.
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| 37. National Reclamation Act | gave federal government power to decide how water would be distributed
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| 38. New Nationalism | was a plan to restore the government
s "trustbusting power".
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| 39. Progressive Party | Progressives people separated from the republican party and created their own group. Jane Addams nominated Roosevelt as the candidate in 1912
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| 40. Woodrow Wilson | Democrat candidate who caught the attention of William Jennings Bryan. had a doctoral thesis called congressional government.
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| 41. New Freedom | an idea formed by Wilson, it would place strict government controls on corporations
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| 42. Sixteenth Amendment | gave congress the power to create a graduated income tax.
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| 43. Federal Reserve Act (1913) | placed national banks under control of the Federal Reserve Board, letting regional banks hold the reserve funds from commercial banks.
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| 44. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) | a group that monitored business practices to make sure they don't lead to a monopoly.
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| 45. Clayton Antitrust Act | a law that gave strength to earlier antitrust laws by giving out the activities in which businesses couldn't engage.
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