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33 Cards in this Set
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Northern Securities Company
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an important United States railroad trust formed in 1902 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates.
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Hepburn Act
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) gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates which led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers
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The Jungle
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a book written to expose problems in the working place.
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Payne Aldrich Act
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a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States
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“Bully Pulpit”
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the description of the government as a great and powerful force.
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American Medical Association
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group formed to force people entering the medical field to have a certain set of skills.
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Ballinger – Pinchot Controversy
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a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger that contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 Presidential Election and helped to define the U.S. conservation movement in the early 20th century.
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“Bull Moose”
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third party created by roosevelt.
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New Freedom
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by woodrow wilson to increase economical and social growth.
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The New Nationalism
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only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice,[1] and that a President can only succeed in making their economic agenda successful if they make the protection of human welfare their highest priority.
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How the Other Half Lives / Jacob Riis
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a book that reveals how the upper class live
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WCTU
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a womans group pushing for the prohibition of alcohol
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Anti-Saloon League
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a group formed to oppose the use of drugs and alcohol
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“Brandeis Brief”
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a pioneering legal brief that was the first in United States legal history to rely not on pure legal theory, but also on analysis of factual data.
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Muller v. Oregon
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it justifies both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period.
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Pragmatism
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a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the 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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Oswald Garrison Villard
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He provided a rare direct link between the anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative Old Right of the 1930s and 1940s
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Underwood Tariff
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re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%, well below the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909.
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Meat Inspection Act
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the act to regulate the sanitation of meat.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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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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FDA
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regulates whats allowed to be sold to the public
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act
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add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency
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Mann-Elkins Act
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reinforced tthe icc and extended it to communications.
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“Wisconsin Idea”
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The Wisconsin Idea is the political philosophy developed in the American state of Wisconsin that fosters public universities' contributions to the state: |
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Tom Johnson
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Tom Johnson invented a pay-box for trolleys and became wealthy from licensing the patent.
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Joe Cannon
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former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and former chairman of Geneva Steel
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Federal Trade Commission
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Its principal mission is the promotion of 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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Interstate Commerce Commission
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allowed trade between states.
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Keating –Owens Act
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sought to address the perceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods manufactured by children, thus giving an expanded importance to the constitutional clause giving Congress the task of regulating interstate commerce
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1902 Coal Strike
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strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major cities (homes and apartments were heated with anthracite or "hard" coal because it had higher heat value and less smoke than "soft" or bituminous coal
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John Dewey
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recognized as one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism and of functional psychology
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Thorstein Veblen
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an American sociologist and economist and a primary mentor, along with John R. Commons, of the institutional economics movement
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Dr. Alice Hamilton
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her research allowed healthier situations for industrial workers.
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