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John Dewey
An American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas were influential in education and social reform. -
National American Women Suffrage Association
Created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. -
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The first mass organization among 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. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry, making the railroads become the first industry subject to Federal regulation. -
How The Other Half Lives
Documented squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s and served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices and was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. -
Anti-Saloon League
The leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union -
Department of Commerce and Labor
A Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. The United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor was the head of the department. -
Elkins Act
Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted rebates. -
Ida Tarbell
Best known for her 1904 book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by New York University of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
A case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1903 that 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. -
Lincoln Steffens
A New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities, exposing political corruption across America's greatest cities at the turn of the twentieth century. -
The Jungle
Portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities and exposed the harsh conditions of the meat packaging industry. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevented 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. -
Meat Inspection Act
A United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Ida B. Wells
One of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). -
Progressive Bull Moose Party
Theodore Roosevelt was the founder of the Bull Moose Progressive Party. -
17th Ammendment
Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
Underwood Tariff
Re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates -
Federal Reserve Act
Created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes. -
Federal Trade Commision
Principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. -
Clayton Anti-trust Act
An amendment passed by the U.S. Congress that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Prevented interstate commerce in the products of child labor. -
19th Ammendment
Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex -
Robert La Folette
An American Republican politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1906 to 1925 -
Eugene V. Debbs
An American union leader, 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. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
Margaret Sanger
An American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.