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This muckraking journalist, in speaking about his famous novel, said, "I aimed at the nation's heart but by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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Upton Sinclair
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This legislation put forth strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created the program of federal meat inspection still used today.
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Meat Inspection Act
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Which party won the 1912 election.
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Democractic Party
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Which party nominated Woodrow Wilson for president.
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Democractic Party
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To which party did William Howard Taft belong.
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Republican Party
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Which party nominated Eugene V. Debs for president in the 1912 election.
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Socialist Party
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This was started by prominant African-American and white reformers.
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NAACP
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This was the principle that guided Roosevelt efforts to organize water projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas.
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conservation
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Which party was known as the Bul Moose Party.
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Progressive Party
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Which party ran the most conservative cadidate in the 1912 election.
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Republican Party
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This progressive championed the rights of women and children by moving into a settlement house, working as the Chief Inspector of Factories for Illinois, and helping to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act.
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Floence Kelley
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This was settled when Roosevelt got involved in the negotiations.
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1902 coal miners' strike
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This is another name for progressivism.
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progressive movement
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This legislation halted the sale of contaminated foods or drugs and called for truth in labeling.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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As a symbolic gesture, Roosevelt invited him to dine at the White House.
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Booker T. Washington
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This is a vote on an initiative.
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Referendum
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This is what Roosevelt promised that the common people would receive.
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Square Deal
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Members of the Women's Christain Temperance Union fought for this cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and asking saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.
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prohibition
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Which party split over the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and other issues.
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Republican Party
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This so upset Roosevelt that he appointed a comission to verify its accuracy.
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The Jungle
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This legislation was used by Roosevelt to file 44 antitrust suits.
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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This is a bill initiated, or launched, by citizens.
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initiative
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This is a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big buisness corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines an newspapers.
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muckraker
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This was one of the inspirations for the creation of assembly lines at the Ford Motor Company.
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scientific management
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This allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. senators.
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17th Amendment
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This allows voters to force public officals to face another election before the end of their terms if enough voters ask for it.
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recall
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This reform govenor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin made the railroad industry a major target.
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Robert M. La Follette
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