Events and Laws
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Progressive Era | The period from 1890-1918 where reformers known as progressives pushed to fix the problems caused by industrialization and urbanization.
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16th Amendment | Amendment that created an income tax
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17th Amendment | Amendment that allowed direct election of senators
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18th Amendment | Created Prohibition; amendment banned the manufacturing, sale, consumption and distribution of alcohol
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19th Amendment | Amendment that gave women the right to vote
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 145 women and girls died in the fire at the garment factory
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Manss-Elkin Act | Helped to regulate telephone and telegraph communication.
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Sherman Anti-Trust | This law outlawed monopolies but was not very effective because it was hard to enforce.
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act | Gave the federal government more power to investigate and prosecute monopolies.
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Square Deal | President Roosevelt's progressive reforms
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Pure Food and Drug Administration | Roosevelt developed in response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle about the unsafe/unsanitary conditions in the meat industry
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Meat Inspection Act | Roosevelt developed in response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle about the unsafe/unsanitary conditions in the meat industry
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Bureau of Corporations | President Roosevelt investigated monopolies and trusts through the creation of this organization
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Children's Bureau | President Taft developed to investigate and end the use of child labor.
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