Reformers Take on Industry: The Progressive Era
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- The drive to regulate big business
- The muckrakers
- Theodore Roosevelt's reforms
- Roosevelt and the Conservation Movement
- The election of 1912
- President Wilson's reforms
- Reforms at the state level
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Throughout the rapid U.S. industrialization, or development of industry, during the nineteenth century, the government had maintained a laissez-faire, or hands-off, attitude toward the economy, allowing the big corporations to do more or less as they pleased. The top leaders of the nation's industries became so powerful...
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