APUSH WW1/Progressive Era

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Square deal

Demanded a square deal for capital, labor, and the public at large. The program embraced the three C's: Control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources

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Jane Addams

A leader of the women's movement. Fought to clean up corrupt city government, protect women in factories, keep children out of mills and mines, and to ensure safety of all food

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Trust-busting

TR was determined to respond to the popular outcry against the trusts, by indiscriminately smashing all big businesses. This angered big business but greatly enhanced TR's reputation

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Muckrackers

A group of aggressive .10 and .15 cent magazines, the waged fierce circulation wars, and dug deep for the dirt that the public loved to hate

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Interstate Commerce Commission

Created in 1887, a feeble sop to the public, it was very inadequate. Rail road barons could simply uphill the commission’s decision on rates and the federal courts a process that might take 10 years

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Lincoln Steffens

A brilliant New York reporter. He launched a service services of articles and McClures entitled, the shame of the cities. He fiercely and masked the corrupt alliances between big businesses and manicipal government

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Ida M. Tarbell

A pioneering woman journalist who published a devastating but factual expose of the standard oil company

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Meat Inspection Act of 1906

Decreed that the preparation of meat would be subject to federal inspection

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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

Designed to prevent the adulteration and a mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals

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Robert M. Fighting bob la Follette

An undersized but over engined crusader who emerged as the most militant of the progressive republican leaders

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Hiram W. Johnson

Republican governor in 1910, prosecutor of grafters, broke the dominant grip of Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics

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Gifford Pinchot

Dedicated conversationist, Head of the federal division of forestry. Wanted to use the nations natural endowment intelligently

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Charles Evans Hughes

Reformist Republican governor of New York, investigator of malpractice by gas and insurance companies and buy the coal trust

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Eugene V. Debs

The socialist nominee in election of 1908, pulled in 420,793 votes

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Louis D. Brandeis

Attorney who persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers

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New Nationalism

Urged the national Government to increase its power to remedy th economic and social abuses

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Women Christian Temperance Union

An anti-liquor organization, founder Francis E Willard would fall on her knees in prayer on salon floors

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Chateau-Thierry

Newly arrived American troops, numbering fewer than 30,000 were thrown into the breach of chateau-thierry right at the 10th of the German advance

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General John J black jack pershing

American general who undertook the Meuse-Argonne offensive from September 26 to November 11, 1918, his objective was to cut the German railroad lines feeding the Western front

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U-boats

German boats that sank four unarmed American merchant vessels in the first two weeks of March

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Alvin C. York

Came from Pacifist sect, ended up killing twenty or thirty Germans

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Henry Cobot Lodge

Disagreed with the league of Nations, he was the chairman of the Senate committee of foreign relations

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George creel

Was gifted with the zeal and imagination, his job was To sell America on the war and sell the world on Wilsonian war aims

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Big four

A group that came to control the Paris conference. Included President Wilson (America), premier Vittorio Orlando (Italy), prime minister David Lloyd George (Britain), and Georges Clemenceau (France)

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Lodge Reservations

The compromise between Wilson and lodge on the treaty. It was tracked on in the final vote, and Wilson pleaded that the loyal Democrat vote it down because of the reservations

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American Federation of Labor

Attempted to organize the steel industry in 1919, but when Judge Elbert H. Gary refused to negotiate, the workers struck in September. The strike was broken in January 1920

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18th Amendment

prohibited all alcoholic drinks. One of the last spasms of the progressive reform movement

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