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38 Cards in this Set
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Northern Securities Company
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This was a large railroad trust that was busted by Roosevelt.
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Hepburn Act
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This strengthened the rate-making power of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair wrote this book about the unsanitary meat packing factories.
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Payne Aldrich Act
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This act lowered a few tariffs in the country.
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"Bully Pulpit"
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Roosevelt believed it was his duty to do what ever he needed to do to help the country.
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Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
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Ballinger wanted to sell land Pinchot set aside for national parks and forests.
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Social Justice Movement
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This was the movement of gerneral reform for various aspects of the country.
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"Bull Moose"
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This was the party that Roosevelt headed for the election of 1912.
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New Freedom
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Wilson called for a lower tariff, a federal reserve, and the end of trusts.
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The New Nationalism
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Wilson blended this with his New Freedom.
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American Medical Association
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This regulated the medical field.
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Upton Sinclair
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This author wrote The Jungle.
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How the Other Half Lives
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Jacob Riis wrote this about the horrors of the tenements.
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WCTU
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The Women's Temperance Union called for prohibition and the end of prostitution.
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Anti-Saloon League
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This group called for prohibition.
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Brandeis Brief
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This brief was the first to use factual data.
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Pragmatism
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Truth should work for the individual in action, not in abstraction.
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Muller v. Oregon
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Oregon upheld the restriction on women's working hours.
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Oswald Garrison Villard
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He was a journalist that helped found the Anti-Imperialistic League.
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Underwood Tariff
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This lowered the tariff fifteen percent and removed duties from sugar, wool, and several other consumer goods.
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Meat Inspection Act
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This regulated the sanitation of meat packing factories.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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This regulated food production and drug distribution.
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FDA
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The Food and Drug Administration was created to regulate food and drugs.
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act
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This act outlawed directorates and prohibited unfair trade practices.
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Mann-Elkins Act
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The act extended the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission to include communications.
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"Wisconsin Idea"
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This idea bolstered the importance of the state government.
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Tom Johnson
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This Cleveland Mayor kept nothing from the public's view in his politics.
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Joe Cannon
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He was a socialist politician from New York.
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Federal Trade Commission
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This helped consumers and tried to eliminate monopolies.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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This commission regulated interstate commerce and was created under Cleveland.
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Keating-Owens Act
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This prohibited the shipment in interstate commerce of products manufactured by children under the age of 14.
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1910 midterm elections
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There was talk of Roosevelt returning to the White House.
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1912 Presidential Elections
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Woodrow Wilson ran the election because of the division in the other party.
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1902 Coal Strike
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This was the first strike that a federal power stepped in.
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John Dewey
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He was a major force behind pragmatism.
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Rober LaFollete
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He was a socialist that developed the Wisconsin Idea.
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Thorstein Veblen
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He wrote the book the Theory of the Leisure Class.
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Dr. Alice Hamilton
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She was the first woman appointed to be on the faculty at Harvard.
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