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Carrie Catt was the major president of the NAWSA during the early 1900's. She was a major pusher of the 19th amendment to pass.
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After years of living in awful living conditions, New York City passes this law to make tenements more livable.
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It is a private, non-profit organization in the United States that lead the child labor movement.
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This movement was meant to help African American rights during this time period. This eventually lead to the formation of the NAACP
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This book revolutionized the new booming food industry to make it less... well.. gross
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After The Jungle was published the public demanded better meat creation laws, and this was one of the results. This act inspected meat sources as well as demanded sanitary conditions of slaughter houses.
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After The Jungle was published the public demanded better meat creation laws, and this was one of the results. This prevented poisonous and spoiled foods from being sold, as well as created the now infamous FDA.
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Due do persecution on blacks, and the fail Niagara Movement, this organization is formed to fight against segregation of Colored people.
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After decades of bad working conditions, there is an awful fire in this factory, and hundreds died due to that the owners locked the exit door.
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This made the senate an election as this was run by state legislators before. This made both houses of congress directly voted by the populous.
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They were another great pusher of the 19th amendment. Unlike NAWSA, they were more extreme in their protests including hunger strikes and other types of protests.
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The short lived Keating-Owen Child Labor Act was passed which banned the sale of products made by children on overseas markets. Though, this law did not hold, because it was struck down in court.
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The 18th amendment banned the sale and transport of alcohol, beginning a period of time known as prohibition. This amendment was impossible to enforce though, which is why it was repealed a little over a decade after ratified
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After over a century of not having the vote, women finally get the vote in the US. This was passed after a lot of pressure from groups like the NAWSA.
