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| was a social and political reformer from Philadelphia. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays , and children's rights is widely regarded today |
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| state of being forbidden; act of forbidding or prohibiting; law or decree which forbids something |
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| One who spreads real or alleged scandal about another |
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| senator, congressman, governor of Wisconsin and candidate for President |
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| bill organized by the people rather than law makers on the ballot |
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| A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision |
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| procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote |
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| prohibited the manufacture,sale,transport,import,or export of alcohol. |
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| prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex |
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| United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae and was an educator |
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| women's right to vote; vote cast in favor of a specific candidate; short prayer or petition |
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| leader of womans suffrage |
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| an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association |
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| the 26th President of the United States |
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| various progressive reforms sponsored by president roosevelt |
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| Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the life of the immigrant in the United States and the corruption of the meat packing industry |
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| American author who wrote close to 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle |
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| Act permitting the quality and safety control of meat products imported to or produced in Canada for interprovincial or international sale |
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| 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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| group that wanted full equality for colored people |
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| head of U.S. Forest Service under pres. Roosevelt |
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| As president, Taft focused primarily on a continuation of trust-busting and reuniting the old conservatives and young progressives of the Republican Party. Taft also strongly supported a national budgetary system |
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| began in the United States House of Representatives as a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States |
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| enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency |
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| A federal agency, established in 1914, that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace |
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| central banking system of the United States |
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| queen of Hawaii, the last one before America seized it |
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| policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony |
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| was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century |
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| made things seem worse than they really were through writing and also included some false things |
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| a ship that had blown up and was a cause of war |
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| The Government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes, or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said island |
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| A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country or region |
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| A concept in foreign affairs, which usually refers to the policy around 1900 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country |
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| In 1900, a group known as the Boxers murdered thousands of foreigners, especially missionaries, in an attempt to rid China of all foreign influence |
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| ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade |
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| A political policy of the United States by President Theodore Roosevelt that states only the United States could intervene in the affairs of South America |
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| term used to describe the effort of the United States |
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| development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy |
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| France, Britain and Russia |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary and ottoman empire |
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| A Cunard liner that was sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic in May 1915 with the loss of over 1,000 lives |
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| a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States |
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| required men to register with the government to be randomly selected for military service |
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| person who for reasons of conscience objects to serving in the armed forces |
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| Espionage and sedition act |
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| United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years |
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| A speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe |
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| intergovernmental organization that had a goal of keeping world peace |
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| treaty that ended World War 1 |
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| payments and transfers of property and equipment that Germany was forced to pay after World War 1 |
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