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temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform, still active
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American union leader and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World . 5x candidate for president
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designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices
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book by Jacob Riis documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s
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created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association
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an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement
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prohibits contracts, combinations, or conspiracies “in the restraint of trade or commerce"
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lobbied prohibition
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Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union
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promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment
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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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stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies had formed a monopoly, court case to dissolve the Northern Securities Company
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Upton Sinclair, portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
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ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions
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preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors
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protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources
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deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City and the United States
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called for tariff reform, stricter regulation of industrial combinations, women's suffrage, prohibition of child labor, and other reforms
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provided the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system
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re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment
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established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states
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administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation
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had the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime
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activist for birth control and opened the first birth control clinic
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tried to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen as well as other circumstances
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prohibition
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gave women the right to vote
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progressive, against corporate power
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exposed the bribery and corruption in the government in his writing
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known as the muckraker who cracked the oil trust
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His ideas about education sprang from a philosophy of pragmatism and were central to the Progressive Movement in schooling
