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Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I.

Formed in the 1890s under the leadership of Florence Kelley; goal was to force retailers and manufactures to improve wages and working conditions.

Under the “checks and balances” system, federal judges

The Primary goal of the American Protective Association was to

Political group within the Republican Party led by Roscoe Conkling of New York that favored traditional, professional machine politics

The argument that human species had evolved from earlier forms of life through a process of “natural selection”

The Stamp Act helped to unify the colonies.

The American politician who referred to the Spanish-American conflict as “a splendid little war” was

The 1920s census of the United States revealed that