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Henry Demarest Lloyd
Wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth
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Thorstein Veblen
Wrote The Theory of the LEisure Class
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Jacob A. Riis
Reporter for the New York Sun who wrote How the Other Half Lives
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Theodore Dreiser
Wrote The Financier and The Titan
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McClure's, Cosmopolitan, Colliers, Everybody's
Magazines that sought to expose soocial injustice beginning in 1902
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Lincoln Steffens
Authored the series "The Shame of the Cities" in McClure's that exposed the corrupt alliance between big businesses and local government
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Ida M. Tarbell
published devastatating expose about the Standers Oil Company
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Thomas W. Lawson
Made $50 million on the stock market; later detailed his accomplices' immoral practices in "Frenzied Finance," published in Everybody's
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David G Phillips
Wrote "The Treason of the Senate" in the Cosmopolitan, accusing Senators of working for trusts and railroads rather than the people
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Ray Stannard Baker
Wrote about the subjugation of blacks in Following the Color Line
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John Spargo's
Wrote about the abuse of child labor in The Bitter Cry of the Children
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Dr. Harvey W. Wiley
Chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture who performed experiments on himself with his "Poison Squad." His results, along with reports in Collier's, discredited phony patent medicines.
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17th Amendment
Established direct election of U.S. senators
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Galveston, Texas
First city to use a city-manager system in 1901
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Robert M. La Follette (Fighting Bob)
Became government of Wisconsin and wrestled political power away from corporations to put the people in charge
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hIRAM w. jOHNSON
1910 Republican Governor of California; he prosecuted grafters to break Southern Pacific Railroad's control over the state
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Women's Trade Union League, National Consmers League, Children's Bureau, and Women's Bureau
Femal activist organizations
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Florence Kelley
Became Illinois's first chief factory inspector and in 1899 took control of the National Consumers League
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Muller v. Oregon
Supreme Court case that decided that laws should be placed to prevent women from harmful effects of factory labor.
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Lochner v. New York
Supreme Court case that almost eliminated the 10-hour workday for bakers
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Factory in New York City that caught fire and, due to fire code violations, became a death trap for its workers.
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Frances E. Willard
Founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (SCTU), which became the largest women's organization in the world
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1902 mining strike
Workers went on strike, demanding a shorter workday and higher pay; the owners ignored them; Theodore Roosevelt threatened to use force against the business, not the workers, for the first time; they agreed to arbitration, and the workers got some of their demands.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
Made in 1903; included the Bureau of Corporations, which was authorized to probe businesses engaged in interstate commerce
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Elkins Act of 1903
Placed fines on railroads that gave and shippers that recieved rebates
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Hepburn Act of 1906
Restricted free passes
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J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill
Organizers of the Norhtern Securities Company
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Upton Sinclair
Author of The Jungle who opened America's eyes to the unsanitary process used for meat packing
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Meat Inspection Act of 1906
Decreed that the preparation of meat shipped over state lines was subject to federal inspection
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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Ensured accurate labelling of food and pharmaceuticals
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Ddesert Land Act of 1877
Government sold arid land cheaply, requiring that buyers irrigate it within 3 years
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Forest Reserve Act of 1891
Authorized the president to set aside public forests as national parks and reserves
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Carey Act of 1894
Distributed federal land to states on the condition that it would be irrigated
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Newlands Act of 1902
Authorized Washington to collect money from the sale of public land in the west and use it to develop irrigation
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Roosevelt Dam
Dam on Arizona's Salt River dedicated by Teddy Roosevelt in 1911
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Hetch Hetchy controversy
The preservationalists protested when the federal government allowed San Francisco to build a dam for its local water supply in the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.
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"Roosevelt Panic" of 1907
Financial panic that businesses blamed on Roosevelt which led to the Aldrich-Breeland and Federal Reserve Acts.
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William Howard Taft
Teddy Roosevelt's chosen successor who won the 1908 presidential election. (Republican)
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Philander C. Knox
1909 Secretary of State
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Dollar Diplomacy
Taft's approach to foreign policy that involved investing in foreign areas important to the U.S. to keep other countries out of those areas' economies
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