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The Progressive Era

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Interstate Commerce Act

Established the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) 1887 - monitors the business operation of carriers transporting goods and people between states - created to regulate railroad prices

parties that organize to compete against the two major American political parties

Social Gospel Movement

A social reform movement that developed within religious institutions and sought to apply the teachings of Jesus directly to society

muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910