apush progressive era

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david g phillips

the treason of the senate

john spargo

the bitter cry of the children

ida b wells

lynch law in georgia and southern horro

ray stannard baker

following the color line

thorstein veblen

theory of the leisure class

thomas lawson

frenzied finance

henry demarest lloyd

wealth against commonwealth

henry george

progress and poverty

muckraker publications

cosmopolitan, mcclure’s, collier’s, everybody’s

dr harvey w wiley

foods and their adulteration

upton sinclair

the jungle

ida tarbell

history of standard oil

jacob riis

how the other half lives

theodore dreiser

the financier, the titan

lincoln steffens

shame of the cities

referendum

policies or laws determined by a popular vote of the people

direct primary

people vote on candidates for office, undercut power-hungry party bosses

australian ballot

limited the use of bribery and intimidation of voters, aka secret ballot

17th amendment

people directly vote on senators

recall

enabled voters to remove elected officials

initiative

voters directly propose legislation

corrupt practices act

limited the amount of money that candidates could spend for their election and restricted corporate donations

robert la follette

gov of wisconsin, progressive republican leader who attacked monopolies

commission/city manager system

appointment of merit-based staffed commissions or managers to run municipal governments

charles evans hughes

gov of new york who prosecuted gas, coal, and insurance companies for profiting off of avg americans

hiram johnson

gov of california who prosecuted corrupt southern pacific railroad kings o win back control of the state govt for the people

northern securities co v usa

1904; roosevelt administration used sherman antitrust act (1890) to prosecture hill and morgan of great northern railroad; dissolved a trust and gave T.R. reputation of a trust buster (actually a trust regulator)

clayton antitrust act

1914; revised the definition of monopoly prohibiting any action that presents an unreasonable restraint on trade

lochner v NY

1905; baking was not a hazardous job and the government has no power to regulate agreed upon terms of labor (max 10 hour workday)

adkins v children’s hospital

1923; overturned federal law establishing minimum wage for women in dc on same basis and women did not merit greater workplace protections than men

muller v oregon

1908; women are mothers (republican motherhood) and are entitled to special protections in hazardous workplaces

maternity and infant act

1921; federal money for instruction for maternal and infant health care

standard oil v usa

1911; ida tarbell muckraking exposed the abusive practices of standard oil co and provided evidence to dissolve the trust

hammer v dagenhart

1918; conservative ruling limiting provisions of the keating owens act (1916); father of 14 y/o was mad his son couldn’t work in a textile mill; scotus ruled the production was done within a state does not meet the definition of interstate commerce