My stellar padlet by Will K https://padlet.com/wkidd3867/syw5768k8obb Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2016-11-29 13:22:42 UTC 2025-12-20 18:41:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Section 3 wkidd3867 https://padlet.com/wkidd3867/syw5768k8obb/wish/140479152 NCL- The National Consumers League, founded in 1891, is an American consumer organization. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues.
  1.  | FLORENCE KELLEY | social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today.

Americanization-  process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs and customs and is assimilated into American society.

Booker T. Washington-  African-American educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who headed Tuskegee Institute, a college for African-Americans in Alabama.

W.E.B. Dubois- United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans

Niagara-  black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.

NAACP-  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color."


Urban League- nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

Anti-Defamation League- nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

Mutualistas- community-based mutual aid societies created by Mexican immigrants in the late 19th century United States


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Square Deal- a fair bargain or treatment.

Hepburn Act-  1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. This led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal

Meat inspection Act-  American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

Pure Food and Drug Act-  preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.

John Muir- Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

Gifford Pinchot- American forester and politician.

National reclamation act- is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.

New Nationalism-  Roosevelt made the case for what he called the New Nationalism in a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, on September 1, 1910. The central issue he argued was government protection of human welfare and property rights, but he also argued that human welfare was more important than property rights.

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