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1
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What improvements and working conditions was Florence Kelly instrumental in promoting

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Woman’s workdays and minimum-wage efforts

2
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What was important about the uprising and the 20,000

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– Garment workers strike

- won shorter work week and higher wages

3
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After reading some important victory why did the Wobblies lose power

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They became more radical, later strikes were failures, the government crackdown on the union

4
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What political reform was enacted through the ratification of the 17th amendment

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Gave voters rather than state legislators the power to directly elect there US senator’s

Thought this will limit the influence of party bosses

5
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Garment industry why were Women paid less than men

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Assume that women were single and we’re being supported by their fathers

Assume that male employees we’re supporting their families

6
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Ohio Oberlin college is noted for what

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The first to admit women in 1833

7
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Reformers called for prohibition because they Believe what about alcohol

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They believed that it was responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children

8
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State in which area of the country were first to give women the right to vote

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The west

9
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Why did the Republican party planned to control teddy Roosevelt backfire

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Six months in, McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt become president

10
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Groups need did Theodore Roosevelt feel should be balancing the square deal

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Workers, business, consumers

11
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Why did Theodore Roosevelt created the US forestry service and the national Park service

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Wanted to protect and control natural resources

12
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What did Theodore Roosevelt administration file hundreds of lawsuits against

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Monopolies that were gives the best interest of the people

13
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The federal trade commission Was tough on companies that use what

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Could undertake special investigations and of business

14
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The 1905 antiquities act created

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18 national monument

15
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Journalist to expose the Darkside of society were called

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Muckrakers

16
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Carrie nation attacked saloons with what

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A Bible in one hand and my hatchet in the other

17
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Teddy Roosevelt Saw the White House as a

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Bully pulpit

18
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Wilsons campaign slogan was

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New freedom

19
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In 1910 what fraction of US workers live in poverty

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1/3

20
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What happened to African-American soldiers wrongly accused in the Brownsville incident

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All of them were discharge from there army and lost her pension

21
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Where reforms did President Woodrow Wilson called for

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Tariff reduction, banking reform, stronger antitrust laws

22
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By 1912 most states have laws prohibiting what

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Child labor

23
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Name at least three tactics that women use to get the vote

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Formed organizations,
Wrote articles, stories and pamphlets
Tested the law

24
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What practices buy food and drug companies led to the passage of the pure food and drug act

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Painkillers full of opium
teething syrup contain heroin
Meat companies had rats sawdust etc.