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"Progressives" |
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the new crusaders, waged war on evils like monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice |
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Henry Demarest Lloyd |
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assailed the Standard Oil Company in his book Wealth Against the Commonwealth. |
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Jacob A. Riis |
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wrote How the Other Half lives; about the dark and dirty slums of New York. |
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Muckrakers |
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popular magazines; they exposed the corruption and scandal that the public loved to hate. |
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Lincoln Steffens |
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launched a series of articles in McClures titled The Shame of the Cities, it unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government. |
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Ida M. Tarbell |
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published a devastating depiction of the Standard Oil Company . |
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David G. Phillips |
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published The Treason of the Senatae in Cosmopolitan charged 75 or 90 senators which didnt represent the people but the railroads and trusts.
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Ray Stannard |
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wrote Following the Color line;about the suppression of America's blacks |
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John Spargo |
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wrote of the abuses of child labor; in The Bitter Cry of the Children |
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initiative |
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voters could directly propose legislation themselves |
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referendum |
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would place laws on ballots for final approval by the people |
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recall |
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would enable voters to remove faithless corrupt officials. |
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17th Amendment |
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passed 1913; established direct election of senators. |
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Robert M. La Follette |
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took considerable control from the corrupt corporations and returned it to the people |
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Hiram W. Johnson |
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governor of CA; helped to break the dominant grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad on CA politics in 1910. |
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settlement house movement |
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exposed middle-class women to poverty, political corruption, and intolerable working and living conditions. |
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Women's Trade Union League |
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female activists worked through |
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National Consumers Leage |
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female activists worked through; mobilized female consumers to pressure for laws safeguarding women and children in the workplace |
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"Square Deal" |
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progressive program (3 parts) enacted by Roosevelt
1. control of the corporations
2. consumer protection
3. conservation of natural resources
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Department of Commerce |
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1903; created to limit the increasing hostilities between capital and labor |
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Elkins Act |
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1903; allowed for heavy fines to be placed on railroads that gave rebates and on the shippers that accepted them. |
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