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William McKinley
- Republican nominee for the election of 1896
- 25th president of the US
- Known for his support of a high protective tariff
- Also considered a friend of labor
- Well liked, well traveled president
- Leader during the war with Spain in 1898
- Helped make the US a world power
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Gold Standard
- The coinage of gold only
- Since gold is limited, this limited the amount of money in circulation
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JP Morgan
- American Banker
- Invested European money into American businesses
- Took over poorly run companies and helped them get back on their feet
- Took over the bankrupt railroad companies
- This technique eliminated competition, stabilized the rates, and reduced debts
- Bought Carnegie’s Steel and Iron holdings
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Jacob Riis
- American writer
- Wrote a series of articles that was published into a book (How the Other Half Lives)
- Wrote about tenement life in these articles
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Lincoln Steffens
- American writer
- Most known for Tweed Days in St. Louis, which was a series of muckraking articles published into a book
- These articles were about the corruption and cruelty of urban politics
- One of the articles, The Shame of St. Louis, is considered one of the first muckraking articles
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Ida Tarbell
- American writer
- Most known for The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was a series of muckraking articles that got published into a book
- In these articles, she revealed how John D. Rockefeller used illegal means to monopolize the early oil industry
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Jane Addams
- Social worker
- Created the Hull House in Chicago
- The Hull House was a settlement house
- These settlement houses housed immigrants, taught them English, and provided other social services
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Upton Sinclair
- American author and journalist
- Wrote the novel called The Jungle
- The novel goes in explicit detail about the awful conditions of the meat packing industry
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Northern Securities
- A railroad trust formed by J.P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, and their associates
- Formed in 1901
- They controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, etc.
- Company was sued in 1902 by the Justice Department under President Theodore Roosevelt under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
- Government won the case and the company was dissolved
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Anthracite Coal Strike
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Meat Inspection Act
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Food and Drug Administration
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Hepburn Act
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Antiquities Act
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Gifford Pinchot
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John Muir
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Hay-Herran Treaty
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Panama Canal
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William Gorgas
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Walter Reed
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Trust Busting
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Standard Oil
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American Tobacco Co.
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American Telephone and Telegraph
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William Howard Taft
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US Steel
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Big Stick Diplomacy
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Dollar Diplomacy
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Ballinger Pinchot Affair
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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Bull Moose Party
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Woodrow Wilson
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New Freedom
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New Nationalism
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Underwood Tariff
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Federal Reserve Act
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Louis Brandeis (brief)
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Muller V Oregon
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Henry Ford
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