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19 Cards in this Set
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Muckrakers |
A name given to journalists of magazines because the reported on wrong and unimportant subject |
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Initiative and referendum |
People have the right to propose laws and laws can be voted on directly |
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Muller vs Oregon |
Supreme court passes law protecting women workers by using harmful effects of factory labor |
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Lochner vs NY |
Bakers could not work for more than 60 hrs a week by due process |
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Meat inspection act |
Set the standard of cleanliness in the meat packing industry |
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Pure food and drug act |
Regulate manufacturing of food and medicines |
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Hetch Hetchy Valley |
Built a dam in Yosemite national park but conservationists were opposed because of the location |
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Jabob riis |
Muckraker who exposed social and political evils in a book that depicts tenements |
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Robert la follette |
Attacked political machines and pressured state gov direct primary |
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Florence kelley |
Successfully lobbied for an anti sweatshop law that included child labor and protecting women |
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John muir |
Opposed to businesses taking land for environmental conservation |
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Alice paul |
Leader of the national women's party and congressional union pushed for equal rights |
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Clayton anti trust act |
Expanded the Sherman antitrust act and made strikes legal |
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Carrie nation |
Her husband died from alcohol so she destroyed every bar in the city |
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Graduated income tax |
Tax based on the income of a person at a different rate |
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Margaret sanger |
Pushed for planed parenthood and legalize birth control |
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Upton sinclar |
Wrote the jungle which shocked the nation by the details of the meat packing industry |
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Ida tarbell |
Wrote the whole history of the standard oil co |
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Mother jones |
Supported striking railroad workers in Pittsburg |
