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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Prohibited alcohol :( was repealed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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16
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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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20
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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

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Equality among races

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Election of 1912, least favored candidate

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William h Taft

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What was not a result of assembly lines

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Decreased productivity

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Who gained most from the ratification of the 17th amendment

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Regular citizens

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Primary goal of prohibitionists

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Eliminate use of alcohol in society

30
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Why were early anti child labor acts ineffective

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Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional

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Rosavelts position on trusts

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Some trusts were harmful to the public interest

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Gifford Pinchot

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Multi use land program was possible

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What led to rafts defeat in 1912

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His failure to unify the Republican Party

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Primary motivation for 16th amendment

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Replace re inure lost by upon acting lower tariffs

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World war 1 effects on sufferage

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Hastened ratification of 19th

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Sugar cane owners in Hawaii wanted annexation cuz

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Didn’t want to pay duty on the sugar they exported

37
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How did the rapid growth of the USA fuel imperialism

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USA needed raw materials for factories and new markets for goods.

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Who negotiated purchase of Alaska from Russia

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William Seward

39
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Who was not an imperial power in late 1800s

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China

40
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Who urged U.S. Officials to build a navy to compete with other powers

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Alfred t Mayan

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What did not simulate U.S. imperialism

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Need for new cheep labor

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Who was head of Hawaiian gov after the queen was overthrown

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Stanford b dole

43
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Where was the first battle of the Spanish American war take place

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Phillipeans

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First incident that started the Spanish American war

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USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor

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What war ended with the the treaty of pairs in 1898

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Spanish American

46
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Who told Fredric Remington “you furnish the pieces, I’ll furnish the war”

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William Randolph Hearst

47
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Jose Martin organized guerrilla attacks to destroy American owned property in Cuba in order to

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Provoke U.S. intervention in Cuba

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How did U.S. newspapers help fuel American sympathy for intervention in Cuba

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Publishers provided articles in support of Cuban Revolution to weaken Spain

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Boxer rebellion

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Attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to remove foreign influence in China

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Foraker act

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End military rule and set up a government in Puerto Rico

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U.S. Military was not involved in the

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Russo-Japanese war

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Why did the philipenos feel betrayed after the treaty of Paris

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It called for American annexation of the phillipeans

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What countries residents became part of the USA in 1917

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Puerto Rico

54
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What did the U.S. Insist that Cuba includes in its constitution

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The platt amendment

55
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Panama Canal built during his presidency

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Theodore Rosavelt

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During this presidency, U.S. And Mexico almost went to war

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Woodrow Wilson

57
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Led Americans into Mexico in persuit of Mexican revolutionary leader

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John j Pershing

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U.S. Government guarantee loans made to foreign countries by American business people

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Dollar diplomacy

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Big stick diplomacy, distorter in Latin America would let the U.S. Send military to protect our interests

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Rosavelt corollary

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Transcontinental railroad

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Connected the east to the west by rails

Allows transport

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Union Pacific

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In charge of building near the west coast

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Chinese workers

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Helped build the railroad

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Homestead act

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Encouraged western migration by providing -160 acres of free farming land

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Native American reservations

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Parts of the us which were designated for the native Americans.
Beat up towns

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Central pacific

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Another of the companies responsible for the transcontinental railroad

66
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Interstate commerce act

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Regulates railroad industry

67
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Triangle factory

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Caught on fire and promoted the safety codes and worker laws

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W.E.B Dubois

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Poet and author who supported the civil rights movement

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