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Progressives
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Developed out of the populist movement, came to dominate the first 2 decades of the twentieth century american politics. progressives were urban, middle class reformers who wanted to increase the role of government in reform while maintaining a capitalist economy. more successful than the populists because not poor farmers. they were middle class and could devote more time tot heir causes.
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Muckrackers
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Hournalists who wrote exposes of corporate gree dand misconduct. revealed widespread corruption in urban management, oil companies, and the meatpacking industry.
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Lincoln Steffen
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Exposed corruptiion in urban management in the Shame of the Cities
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Ida Tarbell
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Exposed curruption of the oil industries in her history or standard oil
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Uptown Sinclair
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Exposed corruption in the meat packing inudstry with /the Jungle
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Headed by WEB Du Bois, this group worked to fight against black discrimination. Du Bois abandoned the quest for racial justice and moved to AFrica
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The feminist movement
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Lead by margaret sanger, faced whide opposition for promiting the use of contraceptives (illegal in most places.)
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19th amendment
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The feminist movements greatest succes during the 20th century. won women the right to vote.
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Robert LaFollette
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Led the way for many progressive state leaders. LaFollette in wisconson implemented plans for direct promary elections, progressive taxation,a nd rail regulation.
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Ballot initiative
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Many states extended greater power to voters by adopting the ballot initiative, through which the voters coupd propose new laws
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Referendum
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Allowed the public to vote on new laws
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Recall electgion
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Gave voters the power to remove officials from office before their terms expired.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Most prominent PRogressive leader. people expected him to be a conservative, but his politics surprised people.first to use the sherman anti trust act effectively against monopoplies. called the trust breaker. tightened food and drug regulations, created national partks, and broadened the governments power to protect land from overdevelopment.
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President Taft
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President after Teddy Roosevelt, spearheading the drive for 2 constitutional amendments, one that instituted a national income tax (16th amendment) and one that allowed fo rdirect elections of senators (17th amendment). pursued monopolies more agressively than roosevelt.
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President Wilson
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Pres after taft, ran against roosevelt who ran for reelection on the bull moose ticket. roosevelts policies reffered to as new nationalism, wilson refered to his ideas as new freeedom. Wilson hated monopolies no matter what while roosevelt thought there were good trusts an bad trists. Wilson created the Federal Trade Commission, lobbied for and enforced the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, and helped create the federal reserve system which gave the govt greater control over the nations finances.
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