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Progressive movement
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purification of government, as Progressives tried to expose and undercut political machines and bosses
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John Dewey
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American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform
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Scientific Management
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improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity
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Ida Tarbell
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American teacher, author and journalist, was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism"
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Seventeenth Amendment
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This amendment lets the people from each state elect their state's senators.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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In addition to holding elective office as a New York State Assemblyman, Governor of New York, Vice President, and President, he was also a deputy sheriff in the Dakota Territory
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Trust Busting
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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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authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates
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Hepburn Act
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Passed by congress to increase authority over railroads an other type of carriers so they could all have reasonable rates and enforce systems of accounts.
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The Jungle
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Novel written by Upton Sinclair in 1906. He wrote this in order to show the corruption in American meatpacking industry. Novel depicts poverty, absence of social programs and horrible living conditions.
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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
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Preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of misbranded, poisonous foods, drugs, medicines and liquors.
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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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allows the Congress to levy an income tax without sharing it among the states or basing it on Census results
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Eugene v. Debs
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the founding members of the International Labor Union and the (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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Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States
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Clayton Anti-trust
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expanded governments role in regulating businesses and helped to set foundation for most of regulation of businesses
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Federal Trade Commission
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Niagara Movement
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Booker T. Washington
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W.E.B Dubois
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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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