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Robert La Follette
He was the governor of Wisconsin, and he eventually was the leading influence of the progressive era. -
John Dewey
He was the founder of Pragmatism. -
Woman's Christian temperance movement
A religious reform organization -
Eugene V. Debs
He was a political activist that led a strike for higher wages for workers. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A law passed in order to regulate the railroad industry and its monopoly traits. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
It was an act against trusts, and the first law that made monopolies illegal. -
How the other half lives
It is a publication that highlights the living conditions of new york in that time period. -
Anti-Saloon League
A nonprofit organization that worked in favor of prohibition laws. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
An organization that focused on the ratification of suffrage acts. -
Square Deal Policy
This was Roosevelt's policy that worked against capitalism. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
It was a strike in the anthracite mines in Pennsylvania. They demanded for better wages and shorter work days. -
Lincoln Steffens
The most famous muckracker of the progressive era. -
Elkins Act
It imposed a fine on railroads that offered rebates, and on the people who accepted the rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
A cabinet created to solve the problem of big coorporations -
Ida Tarbell
One of the Leading muckrackers of the progressive era, she wrote the The History of the Standard Oil Company. -
Ida B. Wells
A muckraker that advocated for civil rights, especially towards African Americans. She led an anti lynching crusade. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
A case that was lost by the stockholders of the railroad company that had a monopoly. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was an act that prohibited the transportation of poisonous, misbranded, or faulty foods, in order to protect the consumer. -
Meat inspection act
An act that made it illegal to adulterate or misbrand any meat products being sold. -
The jungle
It is a novel made by a muckraker, that exposed the meat packing industry -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
One of the deadliest industrial disasters of New York. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
A third party formed by president Theodore Roosevelt. -
Underwood Tariff
It re-imposed the federal income tax and lowered the tariff -
Federal Reserve Act
It allowed to use federal reserve notes as legal tender. -
Clayton antitrust act
It was an act ratified in order to strengthen the sherman antitrust act. -
Federal Trade Commission
It was an independent agency created with the intentions of protecting consumer rights. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
An act that was made with the intentions of prohibiting child labor -
18th Amendment
It was the amendment that prohibited intoxicating liquors. -
17th amendment
It provided direct election of the senate by the citizens, and 2 senators per state -
19th amendment
It said that the right to vote could not be denied because of sex
