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Social Studies
2,3,4
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8th Grade
11/17/2009

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Triangle Shirt waste fire
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a fire that started in a factory. Workers tried to exit but the owners had locked the exit door (to reduce theft of materials)
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Workers compensation laws
Definition
guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job
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Capitalism
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an economic system in which private business runs most industries and competition determines the price of goods
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Socialism
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a system in which the government owns and operates a country's means of production
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William Haywood
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a socialist leader of a union that was called Industrial Workers of the world
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Industrial workers of the world
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- goal was to organize all workers into one large union that would over throw capitalism
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18th amendment
Definition
Banning of production and transportation of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States
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National American Woman’s Suffrage Association
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In 1890 to promote the cause of woman’s suffrage
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Alice Paul
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lead the national womens party
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19th amendment
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granting American woman the right to vote
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Booker T. Washington
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was born into slavery became a respected educator in his 20’s. His strategy was not to fight discrimination directly, instead to improve their educational needs
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Ida B. Wells
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wrote articles about the unequal education available to African American children
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W.E.B. Dubois
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- took a direct approach fighting racial justice
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
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an organization that called for economic and educational equality for African Americans
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Theodore Roosevelt
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was vice president to McKinley who died which made Roosevelt president
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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this law prohibited the manufacturesale and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs
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conservation
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protection of nature and its resources
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William Howard Taft
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Roosevelts secretary took his place as president in 1908
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Progressive Party
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nicknamed the Bull Moose party because Roosevelt said he was as strong as a bull moose
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Woodrow Wilson
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beat Taft in the election of 1912
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16th amendment
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Allows the federal government to impose direct taxes on citizen’s incomes
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