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| stripped down four cylinder 20 horsepower tin lizzie costing $850 bucks and available in black, assembly line |
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| an inventive mechanical engineer,strove to extract maximum effiency from each worker |
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| Triangle Shirtwaist company |
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| called attention to unsafe working conditions. Fire started many people died, bc doors were locked incase of theft. Some people jumped off of building. |
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| rural free delivery, delivery of mail to the farmhouse door, began in 1896. Helped diminish the farmers' sese of isolation. Opened eyes to urban thinking, national advertizing and political events. |
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| Sheppard Towner Act of 1921 |
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| provided federal aid to establish state programs for maternal and infant healthcare. |
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| gave up nursing work to dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control information. However, the Comstock Act of 1873 was used to forbid distribution of birth control devices and information. |
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| worked to organize women into trade unions. It also lobied for laws to safegaurd female worker and backed several succesful strikes, especially in the garment industry. |
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| also known IWW aimed to unite the american working class into one union to promote labors interest. It worked to organize unskilled and foreign born laborers, urged social revolution to create a workers world |
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| Ford doubled the wage rate for common labor, reducded the work day from nine to eight hours, and established a personnel to place worker in apprrpriate jobs. |
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| Womens Christian Temperance Union, pressed to abolish alcohol and the places where it was consumed. 18th amendement, prohibited manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liqours. |
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| doctrine, William James philospher, believed that people were not only shaped by their enviroment, but also helped to shape it.Ideas that worked, became truth. |
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| talented, aggressive,,stump speaker. Wisconsin Idea, one of the most important reform programs. Established an industrial commision to regulate factory safety and sanitation; improvd education, workers compensation, public utility controls, and resource conservation, and lowered rail road rates. |
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| controlled the massive rail networks of the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern , and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads. Roosevelt brought suit against them, saying they were violating the Sherman Anti Trust Act. In 1904, Supreme Court ordered the company dissolved. |
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| chief of the Forest Service, he and Roosevelt worked together to establish thhe first comprehensive national conservation policy. Stregthened the forest preserve program |
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| Sixteenth Amendment (XVI) |
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| allows Congress to levy and income tax without apportionment. |
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| this law reduced the tariff rates 15 percent,it also levied a graduated income tax to make up for the lost revenue. |
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| Nineteenth Amendement (XIX) |
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| right to vote should not be denied on account of sex. |
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| Between 1907 and 1911, executives of American steel manufacturers gathered in a series of social events and meetings that became known as the Gary dinners. At the meetings, the participants announced the prices they intended to charge, but made no promises that they would adhere to those prices. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel Corporation, saw them as a lawful way to stabilize steel prices by fostering information-sharing and an ethos of cooperation |
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