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A group dedicated to combat the influence of alcohol.
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This made the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation.
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A group that advocated for Women's rights.
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This is the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class.
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This pushed the Prohibition movement.
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Ida Wells published a book which was an examination of lynching in the US.
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La Follette was the leader of the progressive movement.
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The public largely sided with the workers, who demanded safer working conditions, higher pay and recognition of their union.
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The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly, and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company.
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A cabinet which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business.
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The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
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An investigative journalism piece that changed how the world looked at the company.
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It sought to organize unskilled laborers in order to challenge and overthrow the capitalist system.
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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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An American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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This book aroused much public sentiment, which then led to federal legislation such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and improvements in working conditions for meat packers and other factory workers.
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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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It was a tragedy that opened the nation's eyes to poor working conditions in garment factories and other workplaces, and set in motion a historic era of labor reforms.
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This allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators
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This split the Republican Party.
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The intent of the act was to create a degree of financial stability.
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This Tariff re-imposed the federal income tax
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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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Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women.
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An addition to the Sherman Antitrust Act that focuses on price discrimination, price fixing, and unfair business practices
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This act prohibited the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen.
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This amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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A book about pragmatism.
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The most famous work of muckraking journalism.
