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progressive movement
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a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action
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john Dewey
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an philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas 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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an teacher, author and journalist ,she was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era
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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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26th President,he is noted for his personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement.
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trust busting
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antitrust law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct.
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elkins act
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] authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
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hepburn act
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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 written to point out the troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry in the early-20th century
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pure food and drug act
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a 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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Wholesome Meat Act (P.L. 90-201), required the US Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption, this act made sure that meat was thoroughly inspected before reaching its consumers.
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sixteenth amendment
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allowed the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it to the states or basing it on Census results.
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eugene Debs
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a leader,and one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World, and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the US
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federal reserve act
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enacted December 1913,Act that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the US, and granted it the legal authority to issue legal tender
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clayton anti trust
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was enacted the US to add further substance to the antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anti-competitive practices in their incipiency
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federal trade commission
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mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmful 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 by a group led by Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter
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booker washington
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an educator, author, orator, and political leader. and was the dominant figure in the African American community in the US from 1890 to 1915
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W.E.B Dubois
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was a 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 US, formed in 1909.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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an American suffragette and activist, with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.[1]
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carrie chapman catt
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a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the 19th 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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prohibits any US citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex
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league of women voters
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an American political organization founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting, approximately six months before the 19th Amendment
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