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Progressive Movement
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What:help develop American Society
When:19th century Significance: an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century |
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John Dewey
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Who:American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic and political activist
When:October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952 Significance: important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology |
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Scientific Management
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What:a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows
When:1880s Significance: Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. |
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Ida Tarbell
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Who:an American teacher, author and journalist.
When:November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944 Significance: one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era |
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Seventeenth Amendment
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Significance: alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, to be consistent with the method of election. this document was adopted on April 8, 1913
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Theodore Roosevelt
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26th president of the U.S America, brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy.
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Trust Busting
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What:a term that referred to President Theodore Roosevelt's policy of prosecuting monopolies, or "trusts," that violated federal antitrust law.
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Elkins Act
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What: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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What: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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What: a novel wrote to show the Americans the dirty conditions of the meat factories.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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when: 1906
what: 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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Meat Inspection 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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he United States Constitution allows 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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When: November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926
Significance: an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States |
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Federal Reserve Act (1914)
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enacted December 23, 1913, 12 U.S.C. ch.3) is the Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue legal tender. The
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Clayton Anti Trust
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was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.
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Federal Trade Commission (1914)
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an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.
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Niagara Movement
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a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.
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Booker t Washington
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when: April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915
What: Representative of the last generation of black leaders born in slavery, he spoke on behalf of blacks living in the South. |
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W.E. B Dubois
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when: 1868 - 1963
Significance: attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism—scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity |
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NAACP
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an African American civil right that ensured he political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination
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Alice Paul
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when: January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977
what: lead to the 19th amendment and helped with the slavery abusive of women. |
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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when:January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947)
significance: a leader of the suffrage who enforced the 19th amendment |
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19th Amendment
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prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex
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League Of Women Voters
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encourage the involvement of the citizens with the government and the laws they can or should create
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