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17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. -
Robert La Follette
An American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin. -
Eugene v. Debs
An American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Ida Tarbell
An American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism. -
John Dewey
An American philosopher, psychologist, democratic socialist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. -
Ida B. Wells
Was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Lincoln Steffens
An American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century. He launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. -
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." -
Margaret Sanger
An American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
A United States antitrust law that was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, which regulates competition among enterprises. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
It was to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. -
How The Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s -
Anti-Saloon League
Was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly, and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company. -
Elkins Act
United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired pro-consumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and drugs. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Meat Inspection Act
An 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. -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé, incumbent President William Howard Taft. -
Underwood Tariff
Re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment -
Federal Reserve Act
When President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, it stood as a classic example of compromise—a decentralized central bank that balanced the competing interests of private banks and populist sentiment. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
A part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anti competitive practices in their incipience. -
Federal Trade Commission
Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
A short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of "intoxicating liquors" in the United States. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
