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* one of the first settlement houses ran by women
*in Chicago
*includes: gallery, nursury, boarding house |
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| *founded the Hull House in Chicago in 1889 |
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*directed the support of the settlement house movement
*did it through state and federal labor legislation
*wrote Hull House Maps and Papers-study of urban poverty |
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*democratic political machine in New York City
*making money off of inside information on public improvements |
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| * the first place to have a sucessful commission form of government |
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| Commission form of govenment |
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| *each commissioner was responsible for a different city department |
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*republican who forged a coalition against railroads and other large corps. in Wisconsin
*won 3 governor terms senator till death
*envoked power of ordinary citizen |
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| *direct vote on specific measures put on ballot by petition |
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| *allowed voters to decide on bills referred to them by legislative branch |
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| *allowed voters to cross party lines |
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| *Gave voters the right to remove elected officials by popular vote |
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| *Journalist that covered NYC's poor communities |
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| America's first large circulation magazine, included articles about travel, history, and technology. |
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| *Wrote the history of standard oil company-about how Rockerfeller squeezed out other competitors. |
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*Wrote THE JUNGLE-about the Chicago packinghouses.
*Exposed the filthy sanitation and working conditions. |
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| *Theaters that offered programs including comedy, western, travelouge, and melodrama. |
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*International Ladies Garment Workers Union
*Their strike was a breakthrough in the drive to organize unskilled workers into unions. |
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| The Triangle Shirtwaist Company |
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*146 jewish women were killed in a fire, in a building with no fire escapes.
*Improved safety conditions
*limited hours for workers |
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*American Federation of Labor
*Strongest and most stable organization of workers.
*Recruited skilled labor |
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*United Mine Workers of America
*The largest AFl affiliate becuase it was not exclusive to whites. |
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| *Unions were not allowed in the workplace |
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*Industrial Workers of the World
*Struggle between working and employing class |
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*National Comsumers League
*Manufactuers sponsored a white label campaign in which manufactorers who met safety and sanitary standerds could use NCL labels |
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*She coined the term "birth control", tried to provide contraception.
*Influenced womens decision to have sex |
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| *1st Freedmans school devoted to industrial education in Virgina |
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*most influencial black leader of the day
*born a slave in 1856,
*a leading spokesman for Racial Accomodation
*urged black to concentrate on economic improvemnts and self relience |
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*1st African American to recieve PHD
*Didnt accept views of the dominant white society |
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| *Protested legal segregation, exclution of blacks from labor unions and the curtailment of voting and other civil rights, failed to generate change |
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| *Strengthened the interstate commerace commission by authorizing it to set maximum railroad rates and inspect financial records |
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| *Established the food and drug administration, that tested food and drugs |
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*Roosevelt's secretary of war and successor in 1908
*alienated Roosevelt and other Progressives |
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*Democrat Presidential candidate in 1912 from New Jersey
*New Freedom Campaign |
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*socialist party nominee during 1912 election
*had already run for president 3 times |
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*Division of the Republican Party gave the election to Wilson
*Roosevelt in 2nd, Taft in 3rd
*Strongest Socialist showing |
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*tax up to 6 percent on personal income
*1913 |
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*1913- reconstructed the nation's banking and currency system
*created 12 federal reserve place
*regulated by central board in DC |
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*1914, replaced the old Sherman Act as the nation's basic anti-trust law
*exempted unions from being construed as illegal combinations in restraint of trade strikers |
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*Congress should have the right to collect tax on incomes
*1913 |
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*established senator regulations and laws
*1913 |
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*alcohol banned from being sold, manufactured, and transported
*1919 |
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*Colorado Miners strike in a makeshift tent city
*Colorado Volunteers, called in by the governer, fired on the strikers and families
*mine was owned by Rockefeller |
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