| Established in 1913 so that the U. S. government
could regulate the interest rates of private
banks and influence the nation's money supply. |
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| Reform writers who investigated alarming
conditions in factories, city slums, politics,
and other areas of American life. |
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| This reform governor of Wisconsin campaigned
for federal control of the railroads. |
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| She broke away from the NAWSA in 1916 to
form the National Woman's party. By using
more militant tactics, she took to the streets
with mass pickets, parades, and hunger strikes
to pressure Congress and the President for
a constitutional amendment granting women
the vote. |
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| This law placed telephone and telegraph companies
under I. C. C. supervision. |
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| The most famous member of the Anti-Saloon
League who would attack people at bars and
cut up bar tables with a hatchet. |
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| This legislation was the first to set up
large-scale irrigation projects in semi-arid
states. |
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| This 1908 Supreme Court decision accepted
environmental data rather than strictly legal
precedent in upholding a state law limiting
working hours for women. |
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| This law outlawed discriminatory rebates
to big corporations. |
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| A 1911 fire in this company, where over 140
women workers died, led to new laws regulating
work hours, working conditions, and fire
codes. |
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| In his 1911 book, Principles of Scientific Management, he explained his ideas for increasing efficiency
by standardizing job routines and rewarding
factory workers. |
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| Proposed by a leading progressive governor
of the times, it stated that a government
had the responsibility for its citizens'
welfare. |
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| This energetic reformer from Iowa became
the new president of the national American
Woman Suffrage Association in 1900. She argued
for the vote as a broadening of democracy
which would empower women, to more actively
care for their families in an industrial
society. |
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| This conservative Speaker of the House tried
to block many Progressive Republican efforts
for reforming government and society. |
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