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Progressive Movement |
period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States |
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Scientific Management |
theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity |
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Meat Inspection Act |
American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meatproducts being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meatproducts are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. |
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Bull Moose Party |
formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912 |
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Prohibition |
nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. |
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Suffrage |
the right to vote in political elections |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. |
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NAACP |
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. |
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Muckraker |
one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by President Theodore Roosevelt, in reference to "man ... with a Muckrake in his hand" in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1684) who seeks worldly gain by raking filth. |
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Square Deal |
a fair bargain or treatment. |
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Tariff |
a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports |
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Referendum |
a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision |
