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Women's Christian Temperance Union
First women's organization devoted to social reform with a program that linked secular beliefs and christianity, -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law passed by Congress in 1890. -
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist who published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to shop in white owned stores -
National American Women Suffrage Association
American women's rights organization was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890. This and other groups led to the nineteenth amendment: women's suffrage. -
How the other half lives
Photo documented book that showed the the terrible living conditions in the NY slums . -
Anti Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States -
Eugene vs Debs
Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike; he was imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking. -
Margaret Sanger
American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Strike by the United Mine Workers of America asking for higher wages,and shorter workdays in Pennsylvania. -
Lincoln Steffens
New York reporter who launched a series of articles titled "The Shame of the Cities" in 1902; unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government -
Northern Securities Antitrust
Roosevelt's legal attack on the Northern Securities Company, which was a railroad holding company owned by James Hill and J.P. Morgan. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department established by Roosevelt to deal with domestic economic affairs. -
Elkins Act
Amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
square deal policy
The "Square Deal" domestic policy was adopted by the President in which he pledged not to favor any group of Americans but to be fair to all -
Robert La Follette
Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics who held a fierce oppostition to corpoerate power and political corruption -
Meat inspection Act
Worked 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. -
The Jungle
novel by Upton Sinclair detailing the horrors of the meat packing industry -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Act for preventing the sale of poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors . -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
146 workers died in a fire because the sweatshop owners locked doors to keep workers in and union organizers out. -
Ida Tarbell
American journalist responsible for breaking up Standard Oil Company's monopoly on the industry . -
Bull Moose Party
Roosevelt ran in this party when he lost republican nomination to Taft -
17th amendment
Calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. -
Underwood Tariff
Reduced levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials. -
Federal Reserve Act
Created a central banking system to provide the US with a flexibl currency -
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission Act empowers the investigation of the activities of trusts and stops unfair trade practices . -
Clayton Antitrust Act
amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Keating Owen Child Labor Act
Act that fought to protect children and instill regulations on child labor -
19th amendment
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections -
John Dewey
Father of progressive education, was a philosopher who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education. -
18th amendment
Prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol
