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| Black heavyweight boxing champion who was convicted of violating the Mann Act. |
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| Black Harvard graduate and founding member of the NAACP who claimed that the black race would be saved by its “Talented Tenth”. |
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| Journalists who encouraged progressivism through their exposure of political, economic and social abuses. |
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| Secured the right to vote for women. |
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| Legal attacks by the government on large corporations for monopolistic practices. |
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| Prohibited goods produced by child labor from being shipped across state lines. |
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| Democratic governor of New Jersey who was elected president in 1912 on a progressive platform. |
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| Woodrow Wilson’s 1912 campaign platform. |
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| Secretary of War who was Roosevelt’s hand-picked presidential successor in 1908. |
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| Nineteenth Century crime reporter and photographer who introduced middle-class audiences to urban poverty through "How the Other Half Lives" (1890) and other publications. |
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| School of psychology, founded by John Watson, that measures human behavior, believes it can be shaped, and discounts emotion as subjective. |
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| The Harvard psychologist who was the most famous popularizer of the philosophy of pragmatism. |
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| An area in cities reserved for prostitutes. |
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| Artistic movement which illustrated urban life in all its grimy realism through the works of artists such as painters John Sloan and George Bellows and photographers like Alfred Stieglitz. |
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| A series of progressive reforms at the state level promoted by Robert LaFollette during his governorship. They included primary elections, corporate property taxes, regulation of railroads and public utilities, and supervision of public resources in the public interest. |
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| Philosophical movement that stressed the visible, real-world results of ideas. |
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| Designed by Ellen Richards to sell cheap, wholesome food to the working poor and to promote social and nutritional reform. |
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| Trade in goods that cross state lines. |
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| Sociological Jurisprudence |
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| Legal theory that emphasizes the importance not merely of precedent but of contemporary social context in interpreting the law. |
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| The most spectacular scandal of the Harding Administration. |
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| Reform governor of New York and the first Catholic candidate for the presidency. |
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| Movie producer who glorified the KKK in his 1915 film "Birth of a Nation." |
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| Attacked the American obsession with material success in his 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby." |
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| Advertiser who described Jesus Christ as a “super salesman” in his best-selling book, "The Man Nobody Knows." |
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| American-born children of Japanese immigrants. |
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| Pioneered welfare capitalism in calling for a shortened workweek and higher wages. |
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| Captured the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance in his sentence “I am a Negro – and beautiful.” |
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| Tennessee biology teacher who was convicted in 1925 of teaching evolution. |
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| Infamous Baltimore journalist who delighted in ridiculing religion, politics, the arts and even democracy. |
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