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trusts
smaller companies finances managed by major corporations
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square deal
government to serve as an umpire deciding when business was good and when it was bad
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anti-trust laws
used to prosecute railroad, meatpacking, and oil trusts
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interstate commerce commission
set railroad freight rates
extended authority over ferries, express companies storage facilities, and oil pipelines
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upton sinclair
wrote The Jungle, which exposed meatpacking plants
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meat inspection act
government regulated monitoring of meat processing plants
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pure food and drug act
government regulation of food quality and medicine
required the accurate labeling and safe food products
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gifford pinochet
promoted scientific management of the nations woodlands
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new nationalism
prevents abuses by expanding government regulatory powers
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clayton anti-trust act
outlawed price discrimination by corporations and allowed unions to peacefully strike, boycott, and picket
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federal trade commission
investigate unfair business practices
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federal reserve act
managed money in circulation, interest rates, etc.
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underwood tariff
income tax to replace revenue lost
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federal farm loan act
money lent to farmers at moderate interest rates
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adamson act
mandated 8 hour workdays and overtime to railroad laborers
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(E2) Anti-saloon League
campaign against drunkenness and its costs to society
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(E2) 18th amendment
outlawed the sale, manufacture, and transport of intoxicating liquors
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(E2) Society of American Indians
improve civil rights, education, and health care
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(E2) Booker T washington
supporter of separate, but equal
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(E2) Tuskegee institute
all black vocational school
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(E2) WEB Du Bois
Helped form the NAACP as he did not accept Washington's views.
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(E2) NAACP
End discrimination, prevent lynching, and obtain voting rights
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(E2) Feminist movement
women's rights and self development the key to economic and sexual independence
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(E2) 19th amenedment
right to vote cannot be denied based by sex
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(E2) Labor reform
States enact factory inspection laws
States require compensation fro victims of industrial accidents
States restrict working hours
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Non partisan elections
to prevent fraud and bribery made by party loyalties
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direct primaries
all voters participate
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referendums
enables voters to accept or reject a law
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mudrakers
fed public desire for scandalous and sensational writing by exposing social, economic, and political wrongs
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socialism
government would sponsor socialist goals like low-cost housing, workers compensation, pensions, public ownership, and labor reform
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political machines
political organization with an authoritative boss who receives rewards for their efforts
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graft
jobs in exchange for portion of profits or salaries and votes
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tammany hall
famous new york political machine
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settlement houses
immigrants receive vocational education, lessons in english, childcare, nutrition, and housing
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chinese exclusion act
suspended chinese immagration
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geary act
addition to CEA but requires all chinese ID cards
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gentleman act
an informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan whereby the U.S. would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration, and Japan would not allow further emigration to the U.S.
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holding company
corporations owning stock in companies
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coporations
stockholders, investors (consolidate companies)
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vertical integration
buying companies that supply you - drives down cost
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horizontal integreation
buying companies that you compete with - monopolies
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