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Progressive Movement
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what: political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action
when: 19th cent significance: spoke out about the need for laws regulating tenement housing and child labor |
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John Dewey
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who: was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer
when: 20th century significance:his ideas have been influential in education and social reform |
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scientific management
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what: heory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflow
when: 20th cent significance: wanted to improve economic efficiency especially labor productivity |
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Ida Tarbell
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who: an American teacher, author and journalist.
when: 20th cent significance: known for leading muckrakers of the progressive era |
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seventeenth amendment
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what: amendment in the US Constitution
when: 1913 significance:established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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who:he was the 26th president of the US
when: early 20th cent significance: he was a leader in the Progressive Movement |
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trust busting
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what: it was also known as Competition Law
when: 20th cent significance: promoted market competition by-regulating anti competitive conduct |
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Elkins Act
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what: a 1903 United States federal law
when: 1903 significance: amended the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates |
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Hepburn Act
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what: a 1906 United States federal law
when: 1906 significance: gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates. |
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The Jungle
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what: a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair
when: 1906 significance: 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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what: a United States federal law
when: 1906 significance: 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
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what: act amended by the 1967 Wholesome Meat Act
when: 1906 significance:requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all meat |
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sixteenth amendment
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what: amendment of the US Constitution
when: 20th cent significance:llows 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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who: American union leader
when: 20th cent significance:one of the founding members of the international Labor Union |
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Federal Resene Act (1914)
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what: the central banking system of the United States
when: 20th cent significance: createdin response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907 |
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Clayton Anti Trust
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what: act of 1914
when: 1914 significance: 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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what: an independent agency of the United States government
when: 20th cent significance:Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection |
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Niagara Movement
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what: a black civil rights organization
when: 1905 significance: fought for the rights of blacks |
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Booker T. Washington
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who:an American educator, author, orator, and political leade
when: 20th cent significance:dominant figure in the African American community in the United States |
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W.E.B. Dubois
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who: an intellectual leader in the United States as sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor
when: 20th cent significance:attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism |
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NAACP
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what: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
when: 1909 significance:an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 |
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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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