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A group of journalist devoted to exposing the problems in America and urged the public to find solutions. Common problems covered by the Muckrakers at the time were corrupt politics, poor working conditions, and questionable living conditions of the working class.The journalist received the name "Muckrauckers" by president Theeodore Resosevelt because of how the journalist would push agendas into politics.
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President McKinley died on September 14, 1901 after sustaining bullet hole wounds which were inflicted on him from Leon Czologosz.
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Following William Mickinley's assassination, Theodore Roosevelt took office. He was a dynamic leader with a Progressive agenda.
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The National Child Labor Committee urged legislation to ban child labor in the industrial industry. It wasn't until 1912 that President William Howard Taft signed into law the creation of the US Children's Bureau.
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Muckraker Upton Sinclair's 1905 novel, The Jungle, exposed the meatpacking industry for deplorable conditions meat was being processed for American consumption. President Roosevelt urged to pass the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. These acts established a system of government inspections for consumable products.
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on March 25, management of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory locked the doors in efforts to control workers and prevent union organizers from entering. The workers mostly consistent of youth and immigrant women. 146 garment workers died as a result of not being able to evacuate safely when a fire broke out in the factory.
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Wilson took office in March 1913 with the agenda to regulate the banks and big businesses. He wanted to lower tariff rates to increase international trade and increase competition in the interest of consumers. By calling a special session of Congress Wilson was able to push for the Revenue Act which lowered tariff rates by 15% and eliminated tariffs on several imports like woolen products and steel.
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The Woman's Christian Temperance union and the Anti-Saloon League moved in efforts to eliminate the sale of alcohol. Their political pressure resulted in the eighteenth Amendment. In 1919 the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol was prohibited nationwide.
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The Women's Suffrage movement was a fight for women's rights to vote in local or national elections. The movement was a decade long fight and had many such as the Anti-Sufferagist Movement who opposed the Women's Suffrage's agenda.