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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
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
work for women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts. -
How the Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s -
Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World -
Anthracite Coal Strike
It was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania -
Ida Tarbell
She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism -
Department of Commerce and Labor
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
The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Lincoln Steffens
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 -
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. -
Square Deal Policy
President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection -
Meat Inspection Act
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. -
The Jungle
novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An Act for preventing 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. -
Ida B. Wells
She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft. -
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. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. -
Underwood Tariff
re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%, well below the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that 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 -
Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act is an amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Federal Trade Commission
the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly -
Margaret Sanger
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. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any facility where children under two worked at night or more than 48 hours daily -
18th Amendment
effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol is illegal -
Anti-Saloon League
the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
19th Amendment
United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. -
Robert La Follette
American Progressive politician
