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Among the first orgaizations of women devoted to social refirm that linked the religious and secular ways based on Christianity.
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A federal law that was meant to regulate railroad industry, mainly it's monopolisitc areas. Required railroad rates be reasonable.
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The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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Merged two former organizations in attempt to create equal rights and decide whether the 15th Amendment should be supported or not.
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African American journalist, editor, suffragist, feminist, and early leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Led an Anti-lynching crusade.
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Jacob Riis documented the slums of New York, what he deemed the world of the “other half,” teeming with immigrants, disease, and abuse.
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Began as a state organization, non-partisan focused on prohibition. Had branches across the U.S to get resources for the prohibition fight.
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He changed fundamental approaches to teaching and learning which was from the philosophy of pragmatism.
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Debs organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894. After embracing socialism, he became the party’s standard-bearer in five presidential elections. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his opposition to the United States’ involvement in World War I.
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It was the first time that the President took direct, non-militant action. It was a coal strike by the United Mine Workers of America for higher wages and shorter workdays.
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Championed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to end the practice of rebates. Rebates were refunds to businesses which shipped large quantities on the railroads, and many railroad companies disliked it.
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The U.S. Department of Labor was created after a long campaign by labor leaders to win Cabinet status for the agency.
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Most known for the muckraker who cracked the oil trust, She made the novel The History of the Standard Oil Company.
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Launched a series of articles that would later be in a book called The Shame of Cities.
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Established President Theodore Roosevelt’s reputation as a “trust buster,” reached the Supreme Court in 1904. It was the first example of Roosevelt’s use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly, in this case a holding company controlling the principal railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest.
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It was for preventing the manufacture, sale, and transportation of misbranded and poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors for regulating food and drugs. Made possible by the book, The Jungle.
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Prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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The Jungle had a deep and immediate political impact on the country, sending shock waves throughout the United States and causing cries for labor and agricultural reform.
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U.S. leader of the Progressive Movement, who as governor of Wisconsin, and U.S. senator and was noted for his support of reform legislation. He was the unsuccessful presidential candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action.
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Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on the protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources.
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Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. There were 146 deaths and 71 non-fatal injuries.
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Formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912.
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Also known as the Revenue Act, re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the 16th amendment and lower tariff rates.
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The Senate should be composed of two Senators from each state elected by the people for six years, and each Senator can have one vote.
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Established the Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
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It was passed to clarify the Sherman Act on topics such as price discrimination, price fixing, and unfair business practices.
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Independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.
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The act banned the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14, from any mine that employed children under the age of 16, and from any facility that had children under the age of 16 work at night or for more than 8 hours during the day.
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Opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States. An advocate for women’s reproductive rights who was also a vocal eugenics enthusiast.
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Only Amendment to ever have been repealed from the United States Constitution. Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.
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Granted Women the right to vote and to prohibit states from denying the right to vote based on sex. This was made possible after the Women's Suffrage Movement.
