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Womens rights convention, first ever held in the US. almost 200 women attended
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Theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics.
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Allowed certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be competitive, and recommended the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts.
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(National American Woman Suffrage Association) Work for Women's suffrage in the US. Created by the merger of two existing organizations (NWSA) and the (AWSA).
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Serious economic depression, caused by the collapse of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing that set off a series of bank failures.
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Best known for leading the nation to victory in the Spanish American War, taking ownership of Hawaii, purchasing the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
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Been VP for only 194 days before becoming president. Republican victory in 1908. Earned his reputation as a "Trust Buster" through his regulatory reforms and anti-trust prosecutions.
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Strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and recognition of their union.
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Oregon passed a law that said women couldn't work more than 10 hour work days. A girl in Muller's laundry worked more than 10 hours a day, and Muller was convicted of violating laws.
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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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Wrote to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lived of immigrants in the US in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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American Law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that eat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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Navy Battle fleet that completed a journey around the globe by order of Theodore Roosevelt
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Federal law that was enacted in 1904 to protect and compensate railroad workers injured on the job.
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Civil Rights Organization.
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27th President, Taft focused on East Asia and repeatedly intervened to prop up or remove Latin American Governments.
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Established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax.
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Deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city. Fire caused the deaths of 146 Garment workers, 123 women and 23 men.
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Formed by Theodore Roosevelt. Known for taking advanced positions on progressive reforms and attracting some leading reformers.
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Leading force in the Progressive Movement, during his first term he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the new deal.
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Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.
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Central Banking system of the US. Created with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act.
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provides further clarification and substance to the sherman antitrust act of 1890 on topics such as price discrimination, price fixing and unfair business practices.
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Independent agency of the US government. Mission is the promotion of consumer protection and elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.
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Also known as "Wick's Bill". Short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen.
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Both men and women ten hour work days. Minimum wage laws weren't changed until 20 years later.
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Did no prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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Granted American Women the right to vote.
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Introduced a minimum wage scale of 5$ per day, and reduced 8 hour work shifts from 9 hours. Declared that no employee would " Be discharged."