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| first settlement house, worked at acclimating immigrants to American culture, specifically women and children, the Lower East Side of New York City |
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| Baptist minister working in New York's tough Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, called for churches to take on new roll in promoting social justice |
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| Florence Kelley/National Consumer’s League |
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| salaried executive secretary, her and her women proved the backbone of the organization, used it to campaign for shorter hours and better conditions for workingwomen |
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| pragmatism, new test for truth where real worth lay in consequences; process over content, learn by doing |
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| systemized shop management, broke down things to the most basic tasks that could be repeated over and over again for efficiency |
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| Wisconsin laboratory for progressivism; railroad, land, education, labor, democracy reform |
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| Upton Sinclair/The Jungle |
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| wrote a novel about the evils of capitalism, but the unsanitary conditions of meatpacking struck home and caused the Pure FDA and Meat Inspection Acts in 1906 |
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| Roosevelt's scientifically trained chief forester, preached conservation and government planning and regulation of lands |
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| founder of the Sierra Club, preservationist, clashed with TR over Hetch Hetchy Valley |
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| progressive president, 1908, chosen by TR as successor, enacted a lot of reforms just after his election and just before his reelection |
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| Democratic president, 1912, meteoric rise to power, limited federal power, tariff and banking reform |
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| Quaker social worker, suffrage, founded militant National Women's Party, organized marches and civil disobediance |
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| black leader, urged caution and pursuit of education and economic success |
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| black leader, urged to fight for civil rights and racial justice |
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| movement to clean the streets |
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| Women’s Trade Union League |
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| brought together women workers and middle class "allies" like AFL |
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| huge fire at sewing shop where women were locked in 10 floors up, used for labor reform until it was discovered that it was caused by a careless worker smoking |
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| limited workingwomen's hours to 10 a day |
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| John Dewey, pluralistic and relativistic philosophy focusing on the lack of eternal truths and the worth of consequences |
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| extreme elevation of productivity and efficiency |
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| anthracite coal strike, TR stepped in to mediate between business and laborers |
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| Interstate Commerce Commission |
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| power to set rates and prevent discriminatory practices |
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| increased power of Interstate Commerce Commission |
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| 1906, establishment of the FDA, because of The Jungle |
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| valley in Yosemite National Park, decision was whether or not to dam it for power for San Francisco, was dammed after SF fire |
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| 1902, argued that it encouraged large scale farming at the expense of small farmers |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, cut travel time from Mediterranean to Pacific in more than half |
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| added to Monroe Doctrine, declared US wouldn't interfere in Latin America as long as they conducted their affairs with dignity |
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| Taft championed commercial goals rather than strategic ones |
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| Progressive (Bull Moose) Party |
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| hastily made party for election of 1912 to nominate TR for president |
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| TR, 1912, federal planning and regulation with increase in federal (but not executive) power |
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| Wilson, 1912, antitrust to get rid of big corporations |
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| 1913, national banking system, made currency more elastic and credit easier to obtain |
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| outlawed unfair competition- price discrimination and interlocking directorates |
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| part of antitrust program used to investigate unfair businesses |
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| presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, middle-class and native-born, cooperation, |
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| farther left than the Socialists, for workers ignored by AFL: miners, migrant farmers, lumberjacks, immigrant textile workers |
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| separate but equal by Booker Washington |
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| Supreme Court affirmed constitutionality of "separate but equal" |
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| angry white mobs killed over 250 blacks in Atlanta |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
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| Du Bois helped found in 1909, diverse group |
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