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Progressive Movement |
A wide range of economic, political, social, and moral reforms. |
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Scientific Management |
The administration of a business/industry based on experimental studies of efficiency; the application of the principles of the scientific method to managing a business/industry. Tries to improve economic efficiency. |
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Meat Inspection Act |
Roosevelt; prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock as food and ensure d that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. |
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Bull Moose Party |
Officially called the Progressive Party. Called for women's suffrage, social welfare assistance for women and children, farm relief, revisions in banking, health insurance in industries, and worker's compensation. |
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Prohibition |
The constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920-1933. |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote in political elections. |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
Prevents the manufacturing, sale, or transportation of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, etc. |
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NAACP |
An association that ensures the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all people and eliminates race-based discrimination. |
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Muckraker |
Someone who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders. |
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Square Deal |
Roosevelt's program based on conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. |
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Tariff |
A tax set on imported goods to supply revenue to to the government and to protect domestic producers from foreign competition. |
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Referendum |
The principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative. |