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Muckraker who scarred readers with his account of the food packing industry.

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Upton Sinclair

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NAACP

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Started by black and white reformers

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Used by Rosavelt to fire 44 antitrust suits

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Sherman antitrust act

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Halted sale of contaminated food or drugs and called for labeling truth

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Pure food and drug act

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Square deal

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What Rosavelt promised the people

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Rosavelt

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A president famous for hunting and the bullypulpit

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In the 1800s a majority of women worked as

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Servants

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What was not employed by women suffragists to obtain their goal

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Work strikes

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Progressive movement

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Contained a series of reform efforts that aimed to correct injustices in American life

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Initiative

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A bill initiated or launched by the citizens

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16th amendment

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Congress can income tax

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17th amendment

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Direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote

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18th amendment

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Prohibited alcohol :( was repealed

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19th amendment

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Women can vote

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21th amendment

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Repeals the 18th amendment

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Muckrakers

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Writers who exposed government abuses and big business corruption

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Suzette laFlesche

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Native American woman who spoke out for Ponca people

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Suffrage

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Denial of the right to vote

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Susan b Anthony

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Leader of first woman’s sufferage movement

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Progressivism did not promote

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Monopolies

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Who was not active in the women’s sufferage movement

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Florence Kelly

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The jungle

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Upton Sinclair, exposes meat packing industry

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First bully pulpit

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Theodore Rosavelt

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Requires truthful labels

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Pure food and drug act

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NAACP goal
Equality among races
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Election of 1912, least favored candidate
William h Taft
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What was not a result of assembly lines
Decreased productivity
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Who gained most from the ratification of the 17th amendment
Regular citizens
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Primary goal of prohibitionists
Eliminate use of alcohol in society
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Why were early anti child labor acts ineffective
Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional
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Rosavelts position on trusts
Some trusts were harmful to the public interest
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Gifford Pinchot
Multi use land program was possible
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What led to rafts defeat in 1912
His failure to unify the Republican Party
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Primary motivation for 16th amendment
Replace re inure lost by upon acting lower tariffs
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World war 1 effects on sufferage
Hastened ratification of 19th
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Sugar cane owners in Hawaii wanted annexation cuz
Didn't want to pay duty on the sugar they exported
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How did the rapid growth of the USA fuel imperialism
USA needed raw materials for factories and new markets for goods.
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Who negotiated purchase of Alaska from Russia
William Seward
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Who was not an imperial power in late 1800s
China
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Who urged U.S. Officials to build a navy to compete with other powers
Alfred t Mayan
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What did not simulate U.S. imperialism
Need for new cheep labor
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Who was head of Hawaiian gov after the queen was overthrown
Stanford b dole
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Where was the first battle of the Spanish American war take place
Phillipeans
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First incident that started the Spanish American war
USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor
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What war ended with the the treaty of pairs in 1898
Spanish American
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Who told Fredric Remington "you furnish the pieces, I'll furnish the war"
William Randolph Hearst
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Jose Martin organized guerrilla attacks to destroy American owned property in Cuba in order to
Provoke U.S. intervention in Cuba
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How did U.S. newspapers help fuel American sympathy for intervention in Cuba
Publishers provided articles in support of Cuban Revolution to weaken Spain
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Boxer rebellion
Attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to remove foreign influence in China
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Foraker act
End military rule and set up a government in Puerto Rico
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U.S. Military was not involved in the
Russo-Japanese war
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Why did the philipenos feel betrayed after the treaty of Paris
It called for American annexation of the phillipeans
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What countries residents became part of the USA in 1917
Puerto Rico
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What did the U.S. Insist that Cuba includes in its constitution
The platt amendment
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Panama Canal built during his presidency
Theodore Rosavelt
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During this presidency, U.S. And Mexico almost went to war
Woodrow Wilson
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Led Americans into Mexico in persuit of Mexican revolutionary leader
John j Pershing
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U.S. Government guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American business people
Dollar diplomacy
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Big stick diplomacy, distorter in Latin America would let the U.S. Send military to protect our interests
Rosavelt corollary
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Transcontinental railroad
Connected the east to the west by rails | Allows transport
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Union Pacific
In charge of building near the west coast
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Chinese workers
Helped build the railroad
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Homestead act
Encouraged western migration by providing -160 acres of free farming land
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Native American reservations
Parts of the us which were designated for the native Americans. Beat up towns
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Central pacific
Another of the companies responsible for the transcontinental railroad
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Interstate commerce act
Regulates railroad industry
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Triangle factory
Caught on fire and promoted the safety codes and worker laws
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W.E.B Dubois
Poet and author who supported the civil rights movement

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