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It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft.
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This was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform through applied Christianity.
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Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.
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This act was designed to regulate the railroad industry.
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The National American Woman Suffrage Association was created to work for women's suffrage in the United States during this time period.
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This book documented the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s
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A federal law passed in 1890 that committed the American government to opposing monopolies.
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The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century.
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He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
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Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources.
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Ida Tarbell published "The History of the Standard Oil Company". Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist of the progressive era and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism.
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This was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of Pennsylvania that was for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union.
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Federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
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This was a Cabinet department of the US government, which wanted to controll the excesses of big business.
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Lincoln Steffens was a reformer during the Progressive Era who wanted to expose the bribery and corruption in the government.
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This was a case that the court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly, forcing them to dissolve the Northern Securities Company.
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For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
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He was a republican politician known for clashing with other party leaders. He became senator.
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Novel published by Upton Sinclair to expose harsh conditions of industrial cities.
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Prohibits sale of adulterated/misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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John Dewey forms the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He formed one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the US.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city.
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This allows regular voters to elect their Senators.
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Founded with the purpose to protect consumers and to ensure a strong competitive market.
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Its purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials.
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This act was passed by Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
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An amendment passed by the U.S. Congress that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
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This act was passed by Congress as a means to regulate child labor.
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This amendment banned of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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This granted American women the right to vote equal to men.
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