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journalists who wrote about unemployment, unsafe working conditions, overpopulation, and political corruption
muckrackers
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exposed the problems created by the Standard Oil Trusts.
Ida Tarbell
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used outlets such as McClure’s Magazine to get her work published for the masses to read.
Ida Tarbell
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exposed political corruption by writing a series of articles about the abuses of political machines and machine bosses. Using titles such as “The Shame of the Cities,”
Lincoln Steffens
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published the novel The Jungle in 1906. The novel exposed the unhygienic and unsafe working conditions of the meatpacking industry; this led to the Meat Inspection Act of the same year.
Upton Sinclair
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focused on the needs of city dwellers.
Progressive Movement
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They wanted greater regulation and control to protect children, the poor, and the laborers.
Progressives
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wanted to abolish the free enterprise system.
Socialists
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was a crusader for women’s suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
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was a compilation of text supporting the movement written by leaders of the movement. It included rebuts of the anti-suffrage movement written by Alice Stone Blackwell and was titled Objections Answered.
The Blue Book
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argued that the woman’s role complements the man’s role while rebutting each of the anti-suffrage arguments.
, Blackwell
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synonym for self-control. was a push to control the purchase and consumption of alcohol
temperance
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who smuggled the alcohol across borders and state lines to distribute it to customers, including owners of illegal bars
bootleggers
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Americans feared the idea that free enterprise and private ownership were threatened by communism.
Red Scare
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made it illegal for anyone to interfere with military operation
Espionage Act of 1917
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set up special forces to search for and arrest Communists.
Palmer Raids
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passed a ban on teaching the theory of evolution
Tenessee
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which was formed in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois and white Progressives as a vehicle to fight for civil rights
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
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was both a political activist and writer who wrote the poem Lift Every Voice and Sing, which was set to music in 1900 and became known as the African-American National Anthem.
James Weldon Johnson
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believed that government should not interfere with business except to enact legislation that will help it become as productive as possible
Calvin Coolidge
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