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Women's union that called for the national prohibition of alcohol.
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Congress passed the act, making the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation
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Jacob Riis (one of the first photojournalists): articles on tenement life
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Enforced by Theodore Roosevelt: prohibited any "contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce."
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African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States
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The leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States
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Pragmatism: defined truth in an appealing way and argued that the good and the true could not be known in the abstract as fixed and changeless ideals
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American leader of the movement to legalize birth control
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Argued for the vote as a broadening of democracy which would Empower women and then enable them to more actively care for their families in an industrial society
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Established control of the corporations, consumer protection, and the conservation of the United States' natural resources
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Successful series of muckracking articles titled 'The History of the Standard Oil Company'
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Coal workers went on strike causing fear in Americans that they would 'freeze to death'. Led to a special commission with a 10% wage increase and 9 hour day to the miners
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Direct primary: a new system for bypassing politicians and placing the nominating process directly in the hands of voters
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Interstate Commerce Commission had greater authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favorite customers
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Theodore Roosevelt established to investigate business practices, assure fair trade, address labor issues, and aid commerce.
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The Shame of the Cities: caused a sensation by describing and detailing the corrupt deals that characterized big city politics from Philadelphia to Minneapolis
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One of the founders of the Socialist Party: A former Railroad Union leader who adopted socialism while in jail for Pullman Strike, outspoken critic of business, and a champion of Labor
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The Supreme Court held that the Northern Securities Company was operating as a monopoly and ruled to dissolve it. This
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Forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled foods and drugs
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A muckracking book by Upton Sinclair: described in detail the conditions in the Chicago stockyards and Meatpacking industry
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Provided that federal inspectors visit meat packing plants to show that they met minimum requirements of sanitation
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Factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers... brought attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers.
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During the election of 1912, Progressive Republicans formed a new party behind Roosevelt after losing to William Howard Taft
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Required that all US senators be elected by popular vote
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Lowered tariffs for the 1st time in 50 years, included a graduated income tax rate of from 1 to 6 percent
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New regulatory agency was to investigate and take action against any unfair trade practice in every industry except banking and transportations
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Americans purchase goods and services using the federal reserve notes (dollar bills) issued by federally regulated banking systems
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Strengthened the provisions in the Sherman antitrust act for breaking up monopolies, contained a clause for organized labor exempting unions from being prosecuted as trusts
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Favored by settlement house workers and labor unions, prohibited shipment in interstate commerce of products manufactured by children 14 years old
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Guaranteed women's rights to vote in all elections at the local, state, and National levels
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Called for the banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages
