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Ulysses Grant signed a bill to create Yellowstone National Park. Pinchot and other foresters contributed greatly to the formation of other parks.
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Made to encourage familes to settle in the West by converting federal land to agriculturally productive land.
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Workers recieved 10% increase and other demands, but were not recognized.
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Reform-oriented journalists who exposed human and civil rights violations caused by the governent, corporations, etc.
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Established the Panama Canal Zone and its construction.
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Intervention in South America including Venezuela, to protect US businesses economic interests.
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Washington asked whites to allow Negroes to learn vocational skills and earn a living.
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Gave Interstate Commerce Comission power to set maximum railroad rates.
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Began construction in 1906, finished in 1914. The US worked with this country to have a share of the land and benefit from the canal.
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Activist who helped form an influential civil rights organization.
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Cut tariffs on certain goods entering the US. caused Teddy Roosevelt to have conflict with Taft and seek election in 1912
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Taft fired Chief Forrester Pinchot gor accusing interior Secretary Ballinger of benefiting business interests at the expense of US natural resources.
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Carried out anti-trust policies against US Steel and breaks up Standard Oil Co.
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Lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%.
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Progressive income tax, (taxing the rich)
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This organization investigated corporation violations "anti-trust laws"
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During April-Nov, the US military controlled the city after Mexican officials seized US sailors and refused to apologize.
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This was an influental book on scientific racism.
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Advocated pride in African Heritage and the return to Africa for full equality.
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Founds American Birth Control League aka Planned Parenthood.
