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| LATE 19TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURY REFORM MOVEMENT CARRIED OUT BY URBAN, MIDDLE CLASS PROFESSIONALS TO IMPROVE WORKING AND LIVING CONDITIONS, END BIG BUSINESS ABUSES, AND RESTORE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT AT THE LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEVEL |
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A DIVORCED MOTHER OF THREE CHILDREN WHO LIVED IN JANE ADDAMS'S "HULL HOUSE" AND WHO LATER BECAME A PROGRESSIVE REFORMER IN CHICAGO, IL.
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| ILLINOIS FACTORY ACT, 1893 |
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LAW PASSED IN ILLINOIS THAT PROHIBITED CHILD LABOR AND LIMITED WOMEN'S WORKING HOURS; FLORENCE KELLEY PLAYED KEY ROLE IN GETTING LAW PASSED AND WAS APPOINTED CHIEF INSPECTOR OF ILLINOIS FACTORIES IN 1893
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| THE BANNING OF ALCOHOLI BEVERAGES |
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| HEADED THE W.C.T.U. (WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION); FORMER PRESIDENT OF EVANSTON ILLINOIS COLLEGE FOR LADIES; MADE THE WCTU THE LARGEST WOMEN'S GROUP IN THE NATION'S HISTORY; SOUGHT TO BAN SALE OF ALCOHOL |
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| NAME GIVEN TO OVERZEALOUS JOURNALISTS WHO EXPOSED THE CORRUPT SIDE OF BUSINESS AND MACHINE POLITICS DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERA; WORK PUBLISHED IN MASS CIRCULATION MAGAZINES LIKE McCLURE'S, COSMOPOLITAN, ETC. |
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| CONCEPT POPULARIZED BY FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYOR TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY IN THE WORK PLACE BY APPLYING SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES TO MAKE TASKS SIMPLER AND EASIER |
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| THREE TIME WISCONSIN GOVERNOR WHO FOUGHT THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY BY TAXING RAILROAD PROPERTY AT THE SAME RATE AS OTHER BUSINESS PROPERTY, SET UP A COMMMISSION TO REGULATE RR RATES, AND FORBADE RR TO ISSUE FREE PASSES TO STATE OFFICIALS |
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| SUPREME COURT CASE THAT DECIDED THAT STATES COULD LEGALLY LIMIT THE WORKING HOURS OF WOMEN |
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| LAW ADOPTED FIRST BY THE STATE OF WISCONSIN ALLOWING VOTERS, NOT STATE LEGISLATURES DOMINATED BY POLITICAL MACHINES, TO VOTE FOR CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE THROUGH A SPECIAL ELECTION; ADOPTED BY 2/3 OF THE STATES BY 1915 |
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| A BILL ORIGINATED BY THE PEOPLE RATHER THAN LAWMAKERS; THIS HELPED FIGHT CORRUPT POLITICAL MACHINES BY ENABLING VOTERS THEMSELVES TO ACT AS POLITICIANS |
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| LAW ALLOWING VOTERS, INSTEAD OF STATE LEGISLATURES, TO VOTE FOR OR AGAINST A BILL INITIATED BY THE PEOPLE |
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| ENABLED VOTERS AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVELS TO REMOVE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL FROM OFFICE BY FORCING HIM/HER TO PARTICIPATE IN ANOTHER ELECTION BEFORE THE END OF THEIR TERM (IF ENOUGH VOTERS REQUESTED IT) |
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| THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN; IT MANAGED NURSERIES, READING ROOMS, AND KINDERGARTENS; HELPED BLACKS ACHIEVE LITERACY AND HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE |
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| A LEADER IN THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT; OPPOSED BLACK MALE SUFFRAGE IF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE NOT ALSO A PRIORITY |
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| NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION; LED BY SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ELIZABETH CADY STATON, AND JULIA WARD HOWE |
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