US HISTORY

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  1. 4. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
  2. 5. The Sierra Club is an environmental organization with chapters in all 50 United States
  3. 6. Anti-Trust Act:The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce.
  4. 7. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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  1. 1. The Jungle was Upton Sinclair's infamous 1906 novel that was a story that brought to light the problems in the meat industry.
  2. 2. The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States who crafted narratives that established their contemporary institutions and leaders as corrupt or immoral.
  3. 3. The National American Woman Suffrage Association was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.
  4. 8. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells.