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Progressive Movement
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The Progressive Movement began in cities with settlement workers and reformers who were interested in helping those facing harsh conditions at home and at work. The reformers spoke out about the need for laws regulating tenement housing and child labor. They also called for better working conditions for women.
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John Dewey
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was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was a major representative of the progressive and progressive populist[2] philosophies of schooling during the first half of the 20th century in the USA
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Scientific Management
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a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows. Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity.It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management. Its development began with Frederick Winslow Taylor in the 1880s and 1890s within the manufacturing industries.
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Ida Tarbell
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was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism".
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Seventeenth Amendment
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established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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was the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. |
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Trust Busting
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Some of these corporations were able to decrease or even eliminate competition by organizing themselves into monopolies. A trust was a way of organizing a business by merging together rival companies.
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Elkins Act
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The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
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Hepburn Act
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a 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates. This led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers.
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The Jungle
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a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to point out the troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power.
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Pure food and drug act
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a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.
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Meat Infection Act
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requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption
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Sixteenth Amendment
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llows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
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Eugene V. Debs
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Federal Reserve Act(1914)
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Clayton Anti Trust
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Federal Trade Commission(1914)
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Niagara Movement
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W.E.B Dubois
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Booker T. washington
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NAACP
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Alice Paul
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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19th Amendment
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League Of Women Voters
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