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settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. -
a law passed prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers. -
gives congress permission to regulate commerce with foreign nations among the states -
a law that prescribes the rule of free competition among the engaged commerce -
Supreme court decision that racial segregation laws didn't violate the constitution as long as the quality of everything was the same -
was shot at a festival in NY that he was warned not to go to -
working conditions caused a strike for a coal minners -
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three Cs" of Roosevelt's Square Deal. -
a novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
the first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on Federal lands. -
The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century -
Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men -
The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
hastening the breakup of Standard Oil, which came about in 1911, when the Supreme Court of the United States found the company to be violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
women's factory burns down, they get trapped because there were no rules or regulations -
Taft carried 23% of the national vote and won two states, Vermont and Utah. He was the first Republican to lose the Northern states. -
Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 United States presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848. -
U.S. federal government, responsible for occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. -
the central banking system of the United States. -
re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates. -
provides for the election of senators -
mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. -
outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect commerce -
prevented unfair methods of competition -
women gain voting rights -
group of American writers who exposed corrupt leaders
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