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US History Chapter 17
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History
11th Grade
02/25/2011

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Progressive Movement
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When journalists and writers exposes working conditions of factories.
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Florence Kelley
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An advocate for improving the lives of women and children.
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Prohibition
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The bannign of alocoholic beverages was this program.
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Muckraker
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Journalists who wrote about he corrupt side of business in mass circulation magazines
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Scientific Management
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The effort to improve efficiency in the work place by applying scientific principles to make tasks simpler and easier.
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Robert M. La Follette
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Leader of the progressive win of the Republican Party in Wisconsin. He taxed railroad properties as any other business.
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Initiative
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A bill originated by the people rather then lawmakeres.
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Referendum
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A vote on the bill originated by the people.
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Recall
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Made it possible for voter to remove public officials from elected positions
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Seventeeth Amendment
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People elect US senators rather then state legislatures.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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US president
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Square Deal
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Program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big businesses.
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The Jungle
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Book written on the conditions of meat making plants
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Upton Sinclair
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The man who brought the terrible condition of mean plants in the open through a bok
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Meat Inspection Act
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dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Halted the sale of contaminated food or medicines and called for truth on labeling.
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Conservation
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Wilderness areas would be preserved while other would be developed for the common good.
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NAACP
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Aimed for nothing less than full equality among the races.
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Clayton Antitrust Act
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This act sought to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by declaring certaini business practices illegal
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Federal Trade Commission
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The power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statuses, to require periodic reports from corporations and to put an end to unfair business competition or unfair business practices.
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Federal Reserve System
Definition
The nations banking system
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Nineteenth Amendment
Definition
Granting the voting of women
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