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Can you figure out what Florence Kelley would have supported based on the following excerpt? We're hoping it's the right to eat pizza for every meal, but that's just us.
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Federal Reserve,
- 00:07
a government mandated movement toward...
- 00:10
introversion.
- 00:15
[ mumbles ]
Full Transcript
- 00:19
[ mumbling continues ]
- 00:23
And now the question:
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Given the excerpt, Florence Kelley would have been most likely to support... what?
- 00:28
And here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
- 00:34
Well, according to the excerpt,
- 00:36
"the old theory was that enlightened self-interest could be
- 00:39
trusted to conduct industry...
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Tested in practice, however, this theory has not sustained
- 00:44
modern life." Well, let's see which other movement
- 00:47
would have most likely moved Florence Kelley.
- 00:51
Would Kelley have most likely supported A -
- 00:53
anti-Catholic organizations?
- 00:55
Well, Kelley was all about supporting the little guy,
- 00:57
so religious minorities would have fit her bill.
- 01:01
That quashes A.
- 01:03
Would Kelley have thrown her weight behind C - the Federal Reserve Bank?
- 01:07
Hmm. Well, Kelley also went out of her way to protect individuals suffering
- 01:10
at the hands of financial institutions,
- 01:12
so she'd have been keen to break the Federal Reserve Bank,
- 01:15
so to speak.
- 01:18
Would Florence Kelley have been down to party with D -
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philanthropy by industrialists?
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Well, though some wealthy Americans may have moonlighted as philanthropists,
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underneath this good will was the idea that poverty was
- 01:29
the fault of the individual.
- 01:32
That would dampen her support for D. Which means
- 01:35
Kelley would have most likely supported B -
- 01:38
anti-trust legislature.
- 01:40
Though she was known for supporting a wide variety of causes,
- 01:43
the bulk of Kelley's work focused on problems
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caused by industry, especially the power of monopolies and trusts.
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So B is the right answer.
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And for Kelley, the excesses of industry violated the pact
- 01:55
between workers and corporations. Though at the end of the day,
- 01:58
it was mostly an issue of, uh... trust.
- 02:05
[ birds chirp ]
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