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25 Cards in this Set
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Progressive Movement
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- in the United States was a period of social activism and reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s.
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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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- theory of management that analyzed and synthesized
workflows. |
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Ida Tarbell
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- was an American teacher
, author and journalist |
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Seventeenth Amendment
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- to the United States Constitution 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). |
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Trust Busting
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- Most Republicans viewed their election victory in 1900 as an endorsement of the party’s policies toward business.
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Elkins Act
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- is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate
Commerce Act of 1887. |
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Hepburn Act
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- is 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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- is a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair.
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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
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- is a United States federal law that
provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, ... |
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Meat Inspection Act
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- substantially
amended by the 1967 Wholesome Meat Act (P.L. 90-201) |
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Sixteenth Amendment
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- to the 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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- an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Federal Reserve Act (1914)
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- is the Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System
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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 (1914)
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- is 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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- was an American
educator, author, orator, and political leader. |
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W.E. B 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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- a civil
rights organization for ethnic minorities in the united States. |
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Alice Paul
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- was an American suffragette
and activist |
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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- was a 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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19th Amendment
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- guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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League Of Women Voters
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- encourages the informed and active participation of
citizens in government |
