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Led America toward progressive reforms and strong foreign policy
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150,000 mine workers went on strike after mine operators refused to give them higher wages and shorter hours. The strike ended when President Roosevelt used his authority to arbitrate the dispute between management and laborers
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The Elkins Act made it illegal for railroad companies to take and give secret rebates
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Laborers from across the U.S. united with labor leader William D. "Big Bill" Haywood and other radicals in 1905 to form the Industrial Workers of the World "the Wobblies" a radical and confrontational union that welcomed all workers regardless of race or gender.
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resulted from the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Congress moved to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, or poisonous food, drugs, medicines, or liquors.
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The Hepburn Railroad Regulation act gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum freight rates.
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The Meat Inspection Act called for the Federal inspection of meats destined for interstate commerce
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He also became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States and was the only person to have held both offices
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The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire killed 145 workers and brought attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories and led to laws and regulations to protect the safety of workers.
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Led the United States into World War I
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Established the Federal Income Tax
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Direct election of U.S. Senators
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This act imposed stiff penalties for anti-war activities.
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This act prohibited speech, writing, and behavior that might incite, provoke or encourage resistance to the U.S. or promote cause of its enemies
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prohibited any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex
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made the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal
