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Progressivism Ch.21

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Ashcan School   Artists in the 20th century, used as their subject matter the things and people found in city streets and slums.  
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Clayton Antitrust Act   Legislation that strengthened antitrust laws. Outlawed; interlocking directorates.  
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Conservation   The efficient management and use of natural resources.  
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Federal Reserve Act   A law establishing a Federal Reserve Board. Controlled the rediscount rate and money supply.  
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Hepburn Act   Federal legislation, gave the Interstate Commerce Commission sufficient power to inspect railroad companies.  
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Industrial Workers of the World   Militant labor organization. Inspired by European anarchists, that advocated "abolition of the wage system."  
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Muckraker   Progressive investigative journalists who exposed the seamy side of American life.  
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National American Woman Suffrage Association   An organization that united the National Woman Suffrage Association. Became the league of Women Voters.  
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People   National interracial organization that promoted the rights of African Americans.  
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New Freedom   Woodrow Wilson's campaign for a proposed policy that would restore competition by breaking up the trusts/punishing corporations.  
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New Nationalism   Theodore Roosevelt's election for an expansion of federal power to regulate big business to promote social justice.  
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Niagara movement   Opposition to Booker T. Washington's advocacy of black accommodation to white prejudice, led to forming the NAACP.  
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Progressivism   Cluster of movements for various forms of social change. Opposed corruption, and inefficiency in government.  
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Square Deal   Described an arbitrated settlement between workers and an employer. More generally employed as a goal.  
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Underwood Tariff   A reform law that lowered tariff rates and levied the first regular federal income tax.  
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Woman Suffrage   The right of women to vote, ensured by the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.  
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Sixteenth Amendment   Authorized federal income tax, 1913.  
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Nineteenth Amendment   Established woman suffrage, 1920  
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Newlands Act   Funneled revenues from sale of public lands to irrigation projects.  
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Pure Food and Drug Act   Prohibited the fraudulent advertising, manufacturing, and selling of impure foods and drugs.  
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