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Progressive Movement
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was 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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an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.
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Scientific Movement
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Ida Tarbell
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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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the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909). He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity.
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Trust Busting
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Competition law, known in the United States as antitrust law, is law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct.[
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Elkins Act
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a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
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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.
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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.
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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 Inspection Act
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this act made sure that meat was thoroughly inspected before reaching its consumers.
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Sixteenth Amendment
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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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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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is the central banking system of the United States.
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Clayton Anti Trust
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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 Commision 1914
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an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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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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an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915.
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Web Dubois
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an intellectual leader in the United States as sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.
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NAACP
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an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.
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Alice Paul
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an American suffragette and activist.
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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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