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Brinkley APUSH ch.22

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Department of Commerce and Labor   Established in 1903(later diveded into 2 separate departments)was to help Theodore Roosevelt in elminating most corporate abuses through its investigatory arm-the Bureau of Corporations.The Bureau of Corporations helped break the stronghold of monopolies.  
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Northern Securities Case   1902 Roosevelt ordered Justice Department to invoke the Sherman Antitrust Act against this great new railraod monopoly in the NW, the Northern Securities Company. A $400 million enterprise pieced together by J.P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman and James J. Hill.  
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Alton B. Parker   Theodore Roosevelts opponent in the 1904 Election. A pallid conservative Democrat.  
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Pure Food and Drug Act   1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled, dangerous, or ineffective food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.  
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The Jungle   Published in 1906, written by Upton Sinclair. Featured appalling descriptions of conditions in the meatpacking industry. Helped create Meat Inspection Act.  
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Meat Inspection Act   After The Jungle came out, Theodore Roosevelt pushed for the pass of this Act. It helped eliminate many diseases once transmitted in impure meat.  
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National Forest Service   First director was Gifford Pinchot who helped Theodore Roosevelt create it.  
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John Muir/Sierra Club   John Muir, the nation’s leading preservationist and the founder of the Sierra Club. Theodore spent a 4 day long camping trip with Muir in the Yosemite National park.  
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Julia Lathrop   1st chief of the Children’s Bureau (investigated matters w/welfare of children/child life among all classes)Veteran of Hull House,filled Bureau w/women reformers;helped make new agency a force for progressive change in federal policy/ state/local gov.  
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Gifford Pinchot    
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Newlands Act   aka National reclamation Act; founded by Nevada senator Francis Newlands; 1902; provided fed. Funds for dams, reservoirs, and canals in the west.  
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Yosemite National Park   1980s in California; created by Congress;Controversy over the Hetch Hetchy Valley there-San Francisco residents worried about needing more water, want it to be a reservoir. Naturalists say no.After many years construction on dam began after WWI  
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“Bull Moose” Party   Taft went against La Follette for the republican nomination and lost=starts his own party(aka New Progressive Party) to try and get the presidency. Advocated regulation of industry and trusts, reform gov.;gov. compensation for injured on the job  
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Louis Brandeis   Appointed to Supreme Court; 1916; first Jew, most advanced progressive to serve there.  
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Sixteenth Amendment   Basically just gives Congress the power to collect income taxes  
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Child labor laws   Keating-Owen Act 1916; regulated child labor-struck down in 1918; take-two=heavy tax on child labor products-struck down by court too; Smith-Lever Act 1914  
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Great White Fleet   16 American battleships painted white took a journey around the world to remind Japan of the power of America after excluding America trade from many of their territories after becoming the dominant sea power in the pacific.  
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Platt Amendment   Cuban government agreed to it; gave the US the right to prevent any foreign power from intruding into the new nation; 1902  
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Pancho Villa   Leading his own rebel army in Mexico when Wilson was having his conflict with refusing to recognize Huerta. 1915 Wilson recognized Carranza gov. Villa angry felt abandoned shot 16 American miners 1916 and then continued into Columbus NM&killed 17 more.  
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John J. Pershing   Ordered by Wilson to lead an American expeditionary force across Mexican border after Villa; never found Villa.  
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