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Progressive movement
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Aimed to protect social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, fostering efficiency.
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Four things
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Florence Kelly
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became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children
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Improved...
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Prohibition
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The banning of alcoholic beverages
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WCTU
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largest womens group in history
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group of
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Muckrakers
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Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass
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Robert M. La Follete
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In the senate
targeted railroads and taxed railroad property |
Big "fighting Bob"
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Keating-Owen act
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prohibited transportation across state lines of goods produced with child labor
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children
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Initiative
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A bill originated by the people rather then lawmakers
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governmentt
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Seventeenth amendment
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made direct election of senators the law of the land
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senators
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NACW
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african american women founded this
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women reform
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Susan B anthony
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a leading proponent of women suffrage
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lady
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NAWSA
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group of women reformers
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women
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Square Deal
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The various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt adminstartion
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reform
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Interstate commerce commission
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enforced the new law that prohibited wealthy railroad owners from colluding to fix high prices by dividing the business in a given area
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NAACP
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national association for the advancement of colored people
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blacks
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Gifford Pinchot
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head of us forest service
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tree's
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Payne Aldrich Tariff
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A compromise that only moderated the high rates of the Aldrich bill
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Moderatedd
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Clayton antitrust act
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prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly
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stockkkk market
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Sherman antitrust act
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against monopoly's
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board game
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federal trade commisssion FTC
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the agency was given the power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statutes to require periodic reports from corporations and to put an ed to a number of unfair business pratices
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angency given power too
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Federal Reserve act
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divided the nation into 12 districts and established a regional central bank in each district
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banks
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nineteenth amendment
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granted women the right to vote
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women
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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NAWSA PRESIDENT
for women suffrage |
dem ladie
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underwood act
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reduced tariff rates
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tariff
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RECALL
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enabled voters to remove public officials from enabled positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term if enough voters asked for it.
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