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history 10 honors
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10th Grade
11/04/2012

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Upton Sinclair
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a muckraking journalist who focused on the human condition in the stock yards of Chicago
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The Jungle
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a book about the sickening conditions of the meatpacking industry
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Theodore Roosevelt
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was vp first until mckinleys assination he was the youngest president ever
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Square Deal
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various progressive reforms sponsored by roosevelt admin.
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Meat Inspection Act
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strict cleaning requirements for meatpackers soon replaced by more sophisticated techniques in 1990s
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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true labeling and end of contaminated food/ drugs did not ban harmful products though.
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Conservation
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some wilderness would be preserved
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NAACP
Definition
National Association for the advancement of colored people. full equality among the races
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