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DOD: June 18, 1925. A militant Republican progressive leader who wrestled control of crooked corporations and returned the power to the people.
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DOD: 20 October 1926. Socialist. Federal prisoner who racked up the largest vote ever for the Socialist party.
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DOD: 6 January 1944. A pioneering journalist who followed in Lincoln Steffens footsteps by published a devasting bt factual blow expose of the Standard Oil Company in response to her father by the oil interests.
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DOD: 1 June 1952. Professor at Columbia University and a Progressive. Set forth the principle of "learning by doing" which served as the foundation for progressive education.
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DOD: 25 March 1931. Spearheaded a protest against the lynching of 3 black businessmen in Memphis, Tennessee.
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DOD: 9 August 1936. Reporter. He unmasked the corrupt aliance between big business and the government.
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The first mass organization under women devoted to social reform that linked the basic principles of Christianity. Also called for the prohibition of alcohol.
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DOD: 6 September 1966. Feminist who led a organized birth control movement that championed the use of contraceptives.
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Congress created this as a requirement for rates to be proportional to distance traveled and that the rate be made public. The Interstate Commerce Commission was set up to enforce this act.
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Written by Jacob Riis in 1890, and told the story of the poor in the Lower East Side.
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Cretaed by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Outlawed Monopolies that were created by big business. First Act passed by Congress that prohibted trusts.
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The leading organization that lobbied for prohibition. Founded in 1893.
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A strike by the United Mine Workers of America to get recognition of their union, higher wages, and shorter hours. This strike threatened national coal shortage, the result was a 10% increase in wages and reduction of working hours.
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Authorized the ICC to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates and the shippers who accepted such deals.
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A short lived cabinet department of the United States and the secretary of the Commerce and Labor division was the head of the department. Was meant to create jobs and promote economic growth.
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President Roosevelt vowed to never favor any specific froup of Americans but to be fair to all. His policy had three basic concepts: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
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First use of President Theodore Roosevelt's Antitrust legislation against a monopoly
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Written by Upton Sinclair and was responsible for President Woodrow Wilson and Congress passing the Pure Food and Drug Act . Also expolited the harsh conditions in which immigrants lived.
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Prevented the transportation, sell, and manufacturing of adulterated or misbranded foods, drugs, medicine, and liquors.
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Prohibited the sell of adulterated and misbranded livestock and ensured that only under sanitary conditions were livestock to be slaughtered.
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Largest industrial fire in U.S. history killing over 100 people, easily preventable if there were better safety measures in place.
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Passed by Congress to enforce the fact that there shall be 2 senators from each state elected by the people and that they shhould serve years and have 1 vote.
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Founded by Progressive Republicans who had bolted the GOP conventio nto protest the party's "standpartism."
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Purpose was to reduce levies impose don manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials.
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It was a act that decentralized the bank which allowed for the balancing of competing interests in private banks and public opinion.
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Unfair methods of competition were ruled unlawful
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Was a act meant to strengthen the antitrust laws established by the enaction of the Sherman Act. Allowed unions to organize and prevented mergers.
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The first child labor bill signed in to law by President Woodrow Wilson. Banned the products made by companies wh oemployed children.
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This amendment granted American women the right to vote
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Established the Prohibition of alcohol, making the production, transport, and sell of alcohol illegal.