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The most mainstream and nationally visible pro-suffrage group. They pushed for suffrage at the state level. NAWSA stands for National American Woman Suffrage Association
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First state to adopt initiative and referendum on a statewide level.
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Evolved as a result of an effort to correct the abuses of the party caucus and convention system.
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Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920
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He served from 1901 to 1906. He pushed for a direct primary system, tax reform legislation, and railroad rate control.
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He became president after William McKinley's assassination.
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Lincoln Steffens specialized in muckracking journalism. He became editor of McClure's Magazine. He recruited Ida Tarbell as a staff writer. Ida Tarbell wrote articles on John D. Rockefeller and oil.
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Dead Indian Land Act- allowed Indian landowners to sell lands they inherited even if they were still in trust Reclamation Act- funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West
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It is a collection of essays. It explored a variety of subjects of black life, from the history of the Freedmen's Bureau and black music to Du Bois' experiences teaching in rural Georgia and Tennessee.
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Authorized the Instertate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates
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Robert LaFollette pushed for creation of a direct primary in Wisconsin in 1902. The Wisconsin Supreme Court passed the nation's first direct primary law.
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It was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. It was created during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt.
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The man that is in charge of it all is William Simon U'Ren"
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Theodore Roosevelt's first example of his use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly.
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Legislation to prohibit against certain types of child labor
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Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency upon William McKinley's assassination. It was easy for him to win the election.
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New York encacted a statute forbidding bakers to work more than 60 hours a week or 10 hours a day. The Court ruled in favor of Lochner and against the state of New York.
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Industrial Workers of the World opposed the American Federation of Labor's acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions.
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Meat Inspection Act- ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions, mandated that the USDA inspect all livestock before and after they were slaughtered and processed for human consumption Pure Food and Drug Act- provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products, and poisonous patent medicines Hepburn Act- gave the ICC power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction
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The book is about a meat packing industry and showed how filthy and unsanitary it was. It showed how dead rats and rat waste were mixed in with the meat. It forced the Meat Inspection Act to come about.
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It was a financial crisis that arose as a result of a plan to limit the popularity of trust companies.
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Promoted the health and welfare of female workers. It led to equality in the workplace for years to come.
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Controversy over the future of conservation. This affair revealed deep fault lines in the Republican Party and ended the friendship between William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Created by W.E.B. Du Bois. Supported political equality for African Americans. Advocated for civil rights.
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Hand picked by Roosevelt to succeed him as President
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Addressed prostitution, human trafficking, it made it a crime to transport someone between states for the purpose of prostitution
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He wanted to regulate big business. He called his plan of Progressive laws the “New Freedom.” The Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commission were established.
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First national strike by coal miners in Britain. The main goal was to secure a minimum wage. After 37 days the strike ended when the government passed the minimum wage law.
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Addressed the needs of children and their well-being
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It was led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. It campaigned for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage.
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Sixteenth Amendment- allows the Congress to levy an income tax without division among the states or basing it on the United Stated Census Seventeenth Amendment- provided for direct popular election of senators
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Underwood Tariff Act- Enacted overall reduction in tariffs, made manufacturers more efficient, and provided customers with competitive pricing Federal Reserve Act- Woodrow Wilson's most significant accomplishment; the banking system was put under governmental supervision
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Federal Trade Commission Act- charged for enforcing antitrust laws and preventing the unlawful suppression of competition Clayton Antitrust Act- supplemented existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies
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Limited work hours of children, Congress regulates interstate commerce produced by child labor, and began a new program of federal regulation in industry
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Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol and their imports and exports
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Gave women the right to vote
