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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform that linked the religious and secular ways based on Christianity. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A federal law that was meant to regulate railroad industry, mainly it's monopolistic areas. Required railroad rates be reasonable. -
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis documented the slums of New York, what he deemed the world as the other half, teaming up with immigrants, disease, and abuse. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist, editor, suffragist, feminist, and early leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Led an Anti-lynching crusade. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Merged two former organizations in attempt to create equal rights and decide whether the 15th Amendment should be supported or not. -
Anti-Saloon League
Began as a state organization, non-partisan focused on prohibition. Had branches across the U.S. to get resources for the prohibition fight. -
John Dewey
He changed fundamental approaches to teaching and learning which was from the philosophy of pragmatism. -
Eugene V. Debs
Organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894. After embracing socialism, he became the party's standard-bearer in five presidential elections. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his opposition to the U.S. involvement in World War 1. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
It was the first time that the President took direct, non-militant action. It was a coal strike by the United Mine Workers of America for higher wages and shorter workdays. -
Elkins Act
Championed by the PA RR as a way to end the practice of rebates which were refunds to businesses which shipped large quantities on the RR's and many RR companies disliked it. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
The U.S. Department of Labor was created after a long campaign by labor leaders to win Cabinet status for the agency. -
Ida Tarbell
Most known for the muckraker who cracked the oil trust. She made the novel The History of the Standard Oil Company -
Northern Securities Antitrust
Established Roosevelt as a trust buster. It was the first example of his anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly and in this case a holding company controlling the principal railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. -
Lincoln Steffens
Launched a series of articles that would later be in a book called The Shame of Cities. -
The Jungle
Had a deep and immediate political impact on the country, sending shock waves throughout the U.S. and causing cries for labor and agricultural reform. -
Meat Inspection Act
Prohibited the sale of adultered or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions -
Robert La Follette
U.S. leader of the Progressive Movement, governor of Wisconsin and U.S. senator and was noted for his reform legislation. Unsuccessful presidential candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was for preventing the manufacture, sale, and transportation of misbranded and poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors for regulating food and drugs. Made possible by the book, The Jungle. -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on the protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Factory fire in New York City was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912. -
17th Amendment
The Senate should be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people for six years, and each Senator can have one vote. -
Underwood Tariff
Also known as the Revenue Act, re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the 16th amendment and lower tariff rates. -
Federal Reserve Act
Established as the central bank of the U.S. to provide the nation a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Federal Trade Commission
Independent agent of the U.S. government. It's principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anti competitive business practices such as coercive monopoly. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
It was passed to clarify the Sherman Act on topics such as price discrimination, price fixing, and unfair business practices. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
The act banned the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14 from any mine that employed children under age 16 and from any facility that had children under the age of 16 work at night or for more than 8 hours during the day. -
Margaret Sanger
Opened with the first birth control clinic in the United States. An advocate for women's reproduction rights who was also a vocal eugenics enthusiast. -
18th Amendment
Only amendment to ever have been repealed from the U.S. Constitution. Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal -
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote and to prohibit states from denying the right to vote based on sex. This was made possible after the Women's Suffrage Movement.
