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organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point
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-established the federal government's right to oversee railroad activities
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-law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States
-signed by Benjamin Harrison and used later by Theodore Roosevelt
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argued that women should be allowed to vote because their responsibilities in the home and family made them indispensable in the public decision-making process
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Photojournalism by Jacob Riis documenting the living conditions in the NYC slums
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African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the U.S.
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increased public awareness of the social effects of alcohol on society
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a leading progressive; "the child becomes the son about which the appliances of education revolve"- started an experimental elementary school (1894)
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Leader of the American Railway Union arrested during the Pullman Strike- in 1920, campaigned from prison where he was being held for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War I
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Governor of Wisconsin- brought about many democratic reforms in the state's politics (nomination of candidates by direct vote, regulation of RR rates)- introduced (referendum) direct appeal to the electorate on questions of policy
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based on three basic ideas- protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources
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McClure's reporter wrote "The Shame of the Cities" - unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government
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Roosevelt summoned both sides to White House- passed a 10% pay increase and a nine-hour day--> strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine possibly causing a social war
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authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates
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By Roosevelt to help with increasing antagonism between capital and labor
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A McClure’s magazine journalist- investigative reporting pioneer; exposed unfair practices of the Standard Oil Company- leading to a U.S. Supreme Court decision to break its monopoly
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• Arrangement formed monopoly illegally restraining interstate commerce
• Dissolved the Northern Securities Company.
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required the Department of Agriculture to oversee the preparation and packaging of meat and to inspect the health of animals before they were slaughtered
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preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors,
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Written by Upton Sinclair- exposed bad working conditions in the meat-packing industry- diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws
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NYC factory burned killing 145 workers- most infamous incidents in U.S. industrial history- brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories- led to development of series of laws and regulations to protect the safety of workers
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formed to support Roosevelt in the election- Republicans badly split in election- Roosevelt broke away to form Bull Moose- lost against Wilson
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purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials
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created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the U.S. and it regulated banking to help smaller banks stay in business
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Allows for regular voters to elect their Senators
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Lengthened Sherman Anti-Trust Act's list of & exempted labor unions from being called trusts, legalized strikes and peaceful picketing by labor union members
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administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace
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Ended child labor and prohibited selling products made by children
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banned the manufacture, sale, transportation, import, or export of all “intoxicating liquors"(repealed in 1933)
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WOMEN CAN VOTE
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leader of movement to legalize birth control- as a nurse in the poor sections of NYC- founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
