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Believed women were hurt by the unfair prices of goods they had to buy to run their homes.
A black teacher who helped form the National Association of Colored Women.
Best known leader of social activists who was raised in a Quaker home.
African American who urged other African Americans to demand immediately all rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
Group organized in 1899 to investigate the conditions under which goods were made and sold and to promote safe working conditions and a minimum wage.
Right to vote.
Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
Group of African American thinkers founded in 1905 that pushed for immediate racial reforms, particularly in education and voting practices.
National organization formed after the Civil War that worked to outlaw the sale and distribution of alcohol.
A nurse that thought family life and women's health would improve if mothers had fewer children.
Organization formed in 1913 to defend Jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements.
1906 law that gave the government the authority to set and limit railroad rates and set maximum prices for ferries, bridge tolls, and oil pipelines.
Led the Division of Forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Reenergized the national suffrage effort in the 1890's.
Group founded in 1890 that worked on both the state and national levels to earn women the right to vote.
Organized groups of Mexican Americans that make loans and provide legal assistance to other members of their community.
1906 law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants.
1902 law that gave the federal government the power to decided where and how water would be distributed through the building and management of dams and irrigation projects.
Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens.
Told blacks to move slowly toward racial progress.
President of the United States in 1901 at 43 years old.
1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs.
President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to restore the government's trustbusting power.
Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
Network of churched and clubs that set up employment agencies and relief efforts to help African Americans get settled and find work in the cities.
President Theodore Roosevelt's program of reforms to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor.
California naturalist whose efforts had led Congress to create Yosemite National Park in 1890.
Political party that emerged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican Party in 1912.

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