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Progressivism US History
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National American Womean Suffrage Association
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National Consumers' League
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Boxer Rebellion fails to drive foreigners out of China
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Hurrican Devastates Galveston TX
The rocovery produces a new government -
Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"
The book exposes the unsanitary ways and conditions of the meat packing industries -
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
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Republican William Howard Taft wins easily as Roosevelt's successor
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] is formed
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Mann Act passed
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Immigration tops 1million a year
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in NYC
The fire exposed the weak safety conditions in the workplace -
16th and 17th Ammendment ratified
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Federal Reserve Act is passed
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FTC established Clayton Antitrust Act that passed
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Madison Grant published The Passing of the Great Race
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PROHIBITION
Alcohol is outlawed -
19th Amendment ratified