An age of reform introduction

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  The problems of the Gilded Age
  
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  Federal Civil Service
  
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  Populists and their ideas
  
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  Socialists and their ideas
  
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  Muckrakers
  
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  Sinclair, Tarbell, Riis, Steffens
  
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  “Fighting Bob” LaFollette
  
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  New city governments
  
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  Election reforms – secret ballot, initiative, recall, direct primary
  
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  17^th Amendment
  
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  New labor laws
  
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  Minimum wage
  
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  Triangle Fire
  
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  Prohibition – 18^th Amendment
  
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  Settlement Houses
  
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  The Push for Women’s Suffrage
  
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  Suffrage – 19^th Amendment
  
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  National Progressives
  
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  Theodore Roosevelt
  
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  The Square Deal
  
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  TR the Trustbuster
  
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  Hepburn Act
  
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  Federal Interstate Commerce Commission
  
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  The Jungle
  
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  Meat Inspection Act
  
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  Pure Food and Drug Act
  
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  Conservation
  
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  National Parks and Monuments
  
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  William Howard Taft
  
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  Income Tax – 16^th Amendment
  
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  Election of 1912
  
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  Woodrow Wilson
  
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  Reducing Tariffs
  
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  Federal Reserve
  
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  Federal Trade Commission
  
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  Lack of Civil Rights
  
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  NAACP
  

So … do you understand how this was a time of reform? Got any questions?