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| 1916 - Addressed Child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under 14. Law was short lived. |
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Designed to improve safety and security of US seamen.
- Abolished imprisonment for desertion
- Reduce penalties for disobedience
- Regulate work hours of seamen
- Safety regulations for boats
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| 1916 - Established 8 hour work day, with additional pay for overtime work, for interstate railroad workers. |
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| 1914 - Its principle mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices |
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| 1914 - Strengthened the anti-trust law promoting competitive practices to help consumers |
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| 1913 - Created 12 reserve banks to hold all reserve (emergency) currency |
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| 1920 - Prohibited any US citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex |
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| 1920 - Established the prohibition of alcohol |
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1913 - Every state will have two Senators, and they will serve a six-year term in Congress. -One vote per senator (100 total senate votes)
-Any person that can vote in state elections can vote for a senator of their state
-If a senator leaves office the governor may appoint someone to fill the vacancy |
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| 1913 - Gave congress the power to charge and collect taxes on incomes. Based on how much one makes. |
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| 1913 - Tariff reduced levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and eliminated duties on most raw materials. To make up for lost revenue, the act also levied a graduated income tax. |
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| Belict of Woodrow Wilson that helped him get elected in 1912. Planned to restore opportunity and put power in the government on behalf of social justice for all. |
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| Roosevelt's progressice political philosophy. TR argued the problem was human welfare and property rights: He believed welfare was more important. |
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| Embraced control of corporations, consumer protection, and the conservation of the United States' natural resources. |
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| Ballinger, who was the Secretary of Interior, opened public lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska against Roosevelt's conservation policies. Pinchot, who was the cheif of Forestry, supported former President Roosevelt and demanded Taft dismiss Ballinger. Taft, who supported Ballinger, dismissed Pinchot on the basis of insubordination. This divided the Republican Party. |
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| Signed by Taft in March of 1909 in contrast to campaign promises. Was supposed to lower tariff rates but Senator Nelson N. Aldrich of Rhode Island put revisions that raised tariffs. This split the Republican Party into progressives (lower tariff) and conservatives (high tariff) |
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| Taft's foreign policy which replaced "bullets with dollars", involved investors instead of military. Eventually worked better in Latin America than China. |
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| Congressional response to TR in 1902. Washington was to collect money from sales of public lands in Western States and use funds for development of irrigation projects. |
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| It was created in 1906 and was designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals. It was made to help the consumer. |
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| Passed in 1906. Stated that the preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection. Part of the progressive reforms, which helped the consumer. |
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| 1911 - Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in NYC which killed 146 workers, mostly women. "Helped" fight for better working conditions. |
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| NY enacted a law requiring baker to work less than 60 hours a week. Lochner (baker) challenged this. Court ruled in favor of Lochner establishing that NY interfered with the 14th amendment. |
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| 1908 - Oregon was justified in setting a maximum workday for women. |
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| Northern securities company was a holding company in 1902. The company was forced to dissolve after they were challenged by Roosevelt, his first trust-bust. |
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| Signed by TR to give the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to set rates that would be reasonable. It also extended the juristiction of the ICC to cover express sleeping car, and pipeline companies. It prohibited free passes and rebates. It was the first time in US history that a company agency was given power to establish rates for private companies. |
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| 1903 - Passed by Congress against the Railroad industries. It was specifically targeted at the use of rebates. It allowed for heavy fining of companies who used rebates and those who accepted them. |
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| Nickname given to young reporters of popular magazines. These magazines spent a lot of money on researching and digging up "muck," hence the nickname "muckrakers." |
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| Supreme Court doctrine that held that only those business interest combinations that were "unreasonably" restrained trade were illegal. This fine-print proviso ripped a huge hole in the government antitrust net. |
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| Conservation and Preservationism |
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| Movement in America to begin preserving natural resources and stop the rapid destruction of these resources and land. |
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| A primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office |
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| The people could possibly remove an incompetant politician from by having a second election. |
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| When citizens vote on laws instead of the state or national governments. The referendum originated as a populous reform in the Populist Party, but was later picked up by the Progressive Reform Movement. |
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| A danish imigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote "How the Other Half Lives" in 1980. |
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| Muckraking journaists that worked for McCure's Magazine. He is known for exposing corruption in major American cities. His first article - "Tweed Days in St. Louis" may have been the first muckraking article. |
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| A female muckraker who wrote a report condemning the corrupt business practices of John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) in McCure's magazine. |
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| Progressive reformer in Wisconsin. Opponent of railroad trusts (big corportations) and bosses of the Gilded Age. Introduced many state level reforms. Wanted to limit corruption. |
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| Was an extremely successful banker who bought out Carnegie's steel company and established U.S. Steel and made it into the first ever billion dollar corporation |
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| Professionally trained Amercian forester. Said we should value nature but also put natural resources to use. |
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| Leader of American Railway Union, he voted to aid workers in the Pullman Strike. He also helped the social democratic party. |
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| A reformist Republican governor of NY, who gained fame as an investigator of malpractices by gas and insurance companies as well as by the coal trust. |
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| Muckraker (socialist) who shocked the nation when he published "The Jungle", a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. |
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| President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, allowed a private group of business people to obtain several million acres of Alaskan public lands. |
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| A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment |
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