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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform that linked the religions and secular ways based on Christianity. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A federal law that was meant to regulate railroad industry, mainly it's monopolistic areas. Required railroad rates to be reasonable. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first Federal Act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Ida B. Wells
She was an African American journalist, editor, suffragist feminist, and early leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Led an Anti-lynching crusade. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Merged two former organizations in attempt to create equal rights and decide whether the 15th Amendment should be supported or not. -
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis documented the slums of NY, what he deemed the world of the 'other half', teeming with immigrants, disease, and abuse. -
Anti-Saloon League
This began as a state organization, on-partisan focused on prohibition. They had branches across the United States to get resources for the prohibition fight. -
John Dewey
He changed fundamental approaches to teaching and learning which was from the philosophy of pragmatism. -
Eugene V. Debs
Organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894. After embracing socialism, he became the party's standard-bearer in five presidential elections. Sentenced to 19 years in prison for opposition of the United States involvement in WWI. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
It was the first time that the President took direct, non-military action. It was a coal strike by the United Mine Workers of America for higher wages and shorter workdays. -
Elkins Act
Championed by Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to end the practice of rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
U.S. Department of Labor was created after a long campaign by labor leaders to win Cabinet status for the agency. -
Ida Tarbell
Most known for the muckraker who cracked the oil trust. She made the novel, The History of the Standard Oil Company. -
Lincoln Steffens
Launched a series of articles that would later be in a book named, 'The Shame of Cities'. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
Established President Roosevelt reputation as a 'trust buster', reached the Supreme Court in 1904. The first example of Roosevelt's use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly. In this case a holding company controlling the principal railroad lines from Chicago to Pacific Northwest. -
Meat Inspection Act
Prohibited the sale of adulterated or miss branded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
Had a deep and immediate political impact on the country, sending shock waves throughout the United States and causing cries for labor and agricultural reform. -
Robert La Follette
U.S. leader of the Progressive Movement, who as a governor of Wisconsin, and U.S. Senator and was noted for his support of reform legislation. He was the unsuccessful presidential candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was made to prevent the manufacture, sale, and transportation of miss-branded and poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors for regulating drugs and food. -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on the protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Factory fire in NYC was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. With 146 deaths and 71 non-fatal injuries. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
United States dissdent politcal faction that nominated former president, Theodore Roosevelt, as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912. -
17th Amendment
The Senate should be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people for six years, and each Senator can have one vote. -
Underwood Tariff
Also known as the Revenue Act, re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the 16th amendment and lower tariff rates. -
Federal Reserve Act
Established as the central bank of the U.S. to provide the nation with safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Federal Trade Commission
The nation's consumer protection agency and one of the government agencies responsible for keeping competition among businesses strong. Its job is to make sure companies compete fairly and don't mislead or trick people about their products and services. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Wilsonian law that tried to curb business monopoly while permitting labor and agricultural organizations. -
Margaret Sanger
Opened the first birth-control clinic in the U.S. She was an advocate for women's reproductive rights who was also a vocal eugenics enthusiast. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Banned sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14, from any mine that employed children under the age of 16, and from any facility that had children under the age of 16 work at night or for more than 8 hours during the day. -
18th Amendment
The only amendment to have been repealed from the Constitution. Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote and prohibit states from denying the right to vote based on sex. This was made possible after the Women's Suffrage Movement.
