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interstate commerce act
established the federal government's right to oversee railroad activities
-required railroads to public their rate schedules and file them with the government -
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Economic Reform Progressive
leaders pushed for agenda for political reform -
Square deal
A series of various progressive reforms aimed at increasing the power of the federal government. -
pure food and drug act
An Act— For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Tenement house
Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
