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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Women's union that called for the national prohibition of alcohol. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Congress passed the act, making the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation -
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis (one of the first photojournalists): articles on tenement life -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Enforced by Theodore Roosevelt: prohibited any "contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce." -
Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States -
Anti-Saloon League
The leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States -
John Dewey
Pragmatism: defined truth in an appealing way and argued that the good and the true could not be known in the abstract as fixed and changeless ideals -
Margaret Sanger
American leader of the movement to legalize birth control -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Argued for the vote as a broadening of democracy which would Empower women and then enable them to more actively care for their families in an industrial society -
Square Deal Policy
Established control of the corporations, consumer protection, and the conservation of the United States' natural resources -
Ida Tarbell
Successful series of muckracking articles titled 'The History of the Standard Oil Company' -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Coal workers went on strike causing fear in Americans that they would 'freeze to death'. Led to a special commission with a 10% wage increase and 9 hour day to the miners -
Robert La Follete
Direct primary: a new system for bypassing politicians and placing the nominating process directly in the hands of voters -
Elkins Act
Interstate Commerce Commission had greater authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favorite customers -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Theodore Roosevelt established to investigate business practices, assure fair trade, address labor issues, and aid commerce. -
Lincoln Steffens
The Shame of the Cities: caused a sensation by describing and detailing the corrupt deals that characterized big city politics from Philadelphia to Minneapolis -
Eugene V. Debs
One of the founders of the Socialist Party: A former Railroad Union leader who adopted socialism while in jail for Pullman Strike, outspoken critic of business, and a champion of Labor -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The Supreme Court held that the Northern Securities Company was operating as a monopoly and ruled to dissolve it. This
decision strengthened the power of the Sherman Anti-Trust. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled foods and drugs -
The Jungle
A muckracking book by Upton Sinclair: described in detail the conditions in the Chicago stockyards and Meatpacking industry -
Meat Inspection Act
Provided that federal inspectors visit meat packing plants to show that they met minimum requirements of sanitation -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers... brought attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. -
Progresive (Bull Moose) Party
During the election of 1912, Progressive Republicans formed a new party behind Roosevelt after losing to William Howard Taft -
17th Amendment
Required that all US senators be elected by popular vote -
Underwood Tariff
Lowered tariffs for the 1st time in 50 years, included a graduated income tax rate of from 1 to 6 percent -
Federal Trade Commission
New regulatory agency was to investigate and take action against any unfair trade practice in every industry except banking and transportations -
Federal Reserve Act
Americans purchase goods and services using the federal reserve notes (dollar bills) issued by federally regulated banking systems -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Strengthened the provisions in the Sherman antitrust act for breaking up monopolies, contained a clause for organized labor exempting unions from being prosecuted as trusts -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Favored by settlement house workers and labor unions, prohibited shipment in interstate commerce of products manufactured by children 14 years old -
19th Amendment
Guaranteed women's rights to vote in all elections at the local, state, and National levels -
18th Amendment
Called for the banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages
