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The Progressive Era (Economical Reforms (Business Regulation (Clayton…
The Progressive Era
Economical Reforms
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Mann- Elkins Act gave ICC power to suspend new railroad rates and oversee telephone, telegraph, and cable companies.
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Environmental Reforms
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Bureau of Mines
added large tracts in the Appalachians to the national forest reserves, and set aside federal oil lands
Forest Reserve Act
set aside 150 million acres of federal land as a national reserve that could not be sold to prove interests
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Political Reforms
Voter Participation
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Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
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Social Reforms
African American Rights
African Americans were, for the most part ignored by government officials during the Progressive Era
Booker T. Washington argued that blacks' need for education and economic progress were of the foremost importance, and that they should concentrate on learning industrial skills for better wages
W.E.B. Du Bois, as a distinguished scholar and writer, argued that political and social rights were a prerequisite for economic independence.
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