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| Founder of Hull house which was buildings that housed European Immigrants. First woman recipient of Nobel Peavce Prize |
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| key figure in American Social Gospel movement |
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| Florence Kelley/National Consumer’s League |
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| priminent figure in NCL and protested for minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, food safety and children's rights |
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| American psychologist that advocated for progressive reform and schooling |
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| Mechanical engineer and leader of Efficency Movement during progressivism |
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| American progressive politician from Wisconsin that was later nominated for president by progressive party |
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| Upton Sinclair/The Jungle |
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| Journal written by Sinclair that exposed the reality of working class and corruption of meatpacking industry |
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| first Chief of the United States Forest Service, Governer of Pennsylvania, progressive politician |
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| American naturalist that advocated preservation of wilderness in the west |
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| Progressive president following Roosevelt. Roosevelt didnt like his term |
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| Progressive president following Taft that passed Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and America's first-ever federal progressive income tax Revenue Act of 1913 |
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| American sex educator, birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League. |
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| American suffrage activist that led Women's suffrage |
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| women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment, founded League of Women Voters, and International Alliance of Women |
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| African-American educator, author, orator, and political leader that spoke out against Jim Crowe Segregation an advocated black rights |
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| African-American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor that attempted to solve all problems of 20th Century United States |
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| movement that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially social justice, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, weak labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war |
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| social movement that sought to abolish prostitution and other sexual activities then considered immoral |
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| Women’s Trade Union League |
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| U.S women's organization that supported the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions. |
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| deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York, causing deaths of 146 garment workers |
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| Supreme Court decision that justifies both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period |
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| idea that meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that impractical ideas are to be rejected |
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| theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows. Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity |
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| Plan created by roosevelt aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking the plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the extreme demands of organized labor |
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| Interstate Commerce Commission |
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| purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers. created by Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 |
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| 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates |
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| 1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines |
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| fight of progressivists against corporations to preserve Hetch Hetchy Dam as a nationaly wilderness park |
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| United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West |
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| canal in carribean built during roosevelt's term that opened U.S commerce into Asia and most of Western Hemisphere |
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| right of the United States to intervene to "stabilize" the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts |
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| further aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. |
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| Progressive (Bull Moose) Party |
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| political party created by progressivists fro the election of 1912 and caused split of republican party. |
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| Roosevelt's campaign slogan for election of 1912. central issue argued government protection of human welfare and property rights |
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| Wilson's campaign slogan for election of 1912. They called for less government but in practice as president he added new controls such as the Federal Reserve System and the Clayton Antitrust Act |
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| created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue legal tender |
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| specified particular prohibited conduct, the three-level enforcement scheme, the exemptions, and the remedial measures |
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| Comission that promoted consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly |
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| political party created by socialists of America that band together to fight ow wages, currency/credit corruption, and child labor. Started by Farmers. |
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| International labor union badn together to fight low wages, corruption, and labor laws |
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Speech given by Booker T Washington in Atlanta promoting education for blacks which allows
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| U.S Supremem court justified state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal". |
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| rising tension between whites and blacks as a result of competition for jobs, black desire for civil rights, Reconstruction, and the gubernatorial election of 1906 caused a riot in which 40 blacks were killed |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP |
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| Civil rights organization created to promote evolution of blacks in America |
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