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| focused national attention on the need for tenement house laws, stringent child labor legislation, better women's working conditions, and more. |
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| National Conference of Charities and Corrections |
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| Reflecting the growing professionalism of reform, it banded together social workers & their organizations. |
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| Women's Christian Temperance Union, one of the leaders in the crusade to remove the evils of drink from American life |
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| National American Woman Suffrage Association |
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| Most important organization in the passage of the 19th amendment in the last 30 years before its ratification. |
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| National Child Labor Committee |
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| Powerful force in bringing about state and national child labor laws in the Age of Progressivism, though many were struck down by courts |
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| a theory proposed by William James that contradicted the idea that truth is abstract but said that instead should work in action for the individual |
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| The most influential educator of the Progressive era who introduced an educational revolution that emphasized children's needs and capabilities, and trade rote memorization for personal growth, free inquiry, and creativity. |
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| The first legal brief to rely more on gathered data than legal precedent, it represented a new attitude that the law was an instrument for social change rather than an unyielding force. |
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