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the 1902 strike in which Theodore Roosevelt summoned both sides to the White House and, after threats of seizure and use of troops, reached a compromise of a 10% pay increase and a nine-hour day | ||
in 1905-1906 this author, and erratic speculator who had himself made $50 million in the stock market, exposed corruption in the financial world by publishing "Frenzied Finance" in a magazine called Everybody's | ||
the author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, a savage attack upon "predatory wealth" and "conspicuous consumption" (written in 1899) | ||
the multimillionaire spokesman for the owners in the 1902 coal strike who felt that the property interests of the country had been entrusted by God to the owners, not to labor agitators | ||
the nickname given to the reformers of the early 1900's who worked for the vote of women | ||
the cabinet department created in 1903 by Teddy Roosevelt to help with increasing antagonism between capital and labor | ||
in 1906 this author brought the abuses of child labor to light in The Bitter Cry of the Children | ||
the 1903 legislation which attacked railroad rebates and became the first effective railroad legislation | ||
the 1908 response by Congress to the 1907 panic which authorized national banks to issue emergency currency backed by various kinds of collateral | ||
the quiet spinster who published a devastating but factual expose of the Standard Oil Company in McClure's in 1903 | ||
the 1906 legislation aimed at restricting the railroads by restricting the use of free passes and the accompanying hint of bribery | ||
the 17th ammendment finally approved in 1913 brought about this progressive reform | ||
the progressive political device in which the voter could directly propose legislation | ||
to counteract the power of political bosses in the early 1900's, many legislatures introduced a secret ballot that had this more common nickname | ||
the 1877 act under Hayes which was an early attempt to preserve our land. Under the legislation, the government would sell a person 640 acres of dry land at $1.25/acre if the person would reclaim the thirsty soil in 3 years | ||
the progressive political device in which the voter could give final approval or rejection to laws passed by their state legislatures | ||
that T. Roosevelt did not always oppose trusts is shown by the 1907 example in which he approved J. P. Morgan's plan to have US Steel absorb this company | ||
the book The Jungle brought about enough public support to pass this 1906 act of Congress | ||
in 1908 this author exposed the sorry subjugation of blacks in the workplace in his books entitled Following the Color Line | ||
beginning in 1902, the exposing of evil in social and political life became a flourishing industry among American publishers. Theodore Roosevelt gave this name to those mudslinging dirt-diggers | ||
the novelist who used his blunt prose to batter promoters and profiteers in The Financier (1912) and The Titan (1914) | ||
the 1902 act to help reclaim dry western lands which stated that the federal government was to use the money from the sale of western lands for irrigation projects | ||
the important arm of the Department of Commerce and Labor in the early 1900's that helped break the stranglehold of monopoly and clear the road for "trust-busting" | ||
T. Roosevelt enhanced his reputation as a "trust buster" when the Supreme Court voted in 1904 to support his case against this holding company owned by J. P. Morgan and James Hill | ||
in 1908 the Democrats decided once again to go with this man to oppose William Howard Taft | ||
the 1906 act designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and drugs | ||
the financial crisis, nicknamed the Roosevelt Panic and Rich Man's Panic, of the early 1900's | ||
the reform of the early 1900's in which cities tried to take politics out of municipal administration by hiring a professional administrator | ||
the author of the Cosmopolitan series entitled "The Treason of the Senate." In 1906, he charged that 75 of 90 senators did not represent the people at all but rather railroads and trusts | ||
the progressive political device in which the voter could remove faithless elected officials, especially those bribed by bosses or lobbyists | ||
the able and reformist Republician governor of New York who gained fame as an investigator of malpractices by gas and insurance companies and by the coal trusts | ||
the New York Sun reporter who shocked middle-class Americans in 1890 with How the Other Half Lives, a damning indictment of the dirt, disease, vice and misery of the New York slums | ||
the nickname for Theodore Roosevelt's reformist campaign for control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources | ||
in 1906, his novel, The Jungle, described in detail the filth, disease, and putrefaction in Chicago slaughterhouses | ||
steaming and unsanitary sweatshops were exposed to the public eye in 1911 when a fire at this New York City company incinerated 146 women workers | ||
the 1894 attempt at reclamation of dry land on which the federal government would cede the land to states if the states would see to it that the land was irrigated and settled upon | ||
the 1894 book in which Henry Demarest Lloyd charged headlong into the Standard Oil Company | ||
T. Roosevelt's zealous conservationist and head of the Division of Forestry | ||
in 1902 this brilliant New York reporter launched a series of articles in McClure's entitled "The Shame of the Cities." He fearlessly unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government | ||
the chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture who supported muckraking esposes of patent medicines and drug producers with his famous "poison squad" and self-experiments | ||
in 1910 Teddy Roosevelt shocked old guard Republicans by espousing this doctrine calling for the national government to increase its power in order to correct crying social and political abuses | ||
Roosevelt used his control of party machinery in the 1908 Republican convention to get the delegates to approve this handpicked successor |