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Progressive movement
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Period of social activism and reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s.
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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
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Federal Reserve Act
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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 Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
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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 commission
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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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Black civil rights organization founded in 1905
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Booker T Washington
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American educator, author, orator, and political leader
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WEB Dubois
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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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Its mission is "to ensure the 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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American suffragette and activist
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Carrie chapmon catt
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Women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920
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League of women voters
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American political organization founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote
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