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17th Amendment
Says that each state can have two senators, elected by the people of that state, for a term of 6 years, and each senator has one vote. -
Lincoln Steffens
"An Irish immigrant, Samuel Sidney McClure, founded McClure's
Magazine in 1893, which became a major success by running a series of muckraking articles by Lincoln Steffens (Tweed Days in St. Louis, 1902)." -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is an active international temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that linked with religon -
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate commerce is a federal law created to regulate railroads. -
Ida Tarbell
"series by Ida Tarbell (The History of the Standard Oil Company,
also in 1902). Combining careful research with sensationalism, these articles set a standard for the deluge of muckraking that followed." -
Ida B. Wells
"Ida B. Wells, editor of the Memphis Free Speech, a black newspaper, campaigned against lynching and the Jim Crow laws. Death threats and the destruction of her printing press forced Wells to carry on her work from the North. " -
Margaret Sanger
"Margaret Sanger advocated birth-control education, especially
among the poor. Over time, the movement developed into the Planned Parenthood organization. Women made progress in securing educational equality, liberalizing marriage and divorce laws, reducing discrimination in business and the professions, and recognizing women's rights to own property." -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit monopolies. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
united to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) - refer to Women's Suffrage. -
John Dewey
John Dewey was a leading advocates of this new pragmatism."They defined "truth" in a way that many Progressives found appealing. James and Dewey argued that "good" and "true" could not be known in abstract as fixed and changeless ideals. Rather, they said, people should take a pragmatic, or practical, approach to morals, ideals, and knowledge. They should experiment with ideas and laws and test them in action until they found something that would produce a well-functioning democratic society." -
Anti Saloon Act
formed adding to the force of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. -
Eugene V. Debs
President of the American Railway Union. His union conducted a successful strike for higher wages against the Great Northern Railway. He gained greater renown when he went to jail for his role in leading the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company strike. -
How the Other Half Lives
Inspired reform on a national scale. The Department of Labor published The Housing of the Working People, which was the second major tenement study of the decade. Jacob Riis was only the first to expose the conditions that the impoverished lived in using photographs. -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
"The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was formed in
1874. Advocating total abstinence from alcohol, the WCTU, under the leadership of Frances E. Willard of Evanston, Illinois, had 500,000 members by 1898.' -
Northern Securities Antitrust
President Roosevelt takes J.P. Morgan’s Northern Securities Company to court for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act in his “trust-busting” efforts to break up Big business monopolies. -
The Anthracite Coal Strike
one of America's largest industrial strikes and saw President Roosevelt act as a mediator. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Established to reduce tensions between management and labor. It includes a division called the Bureau of Corporations, with the authority to investigate and regulate corporations without having to sacrifice economic efficiency by breaking up the trusts. -
The Square Deal Policy
President Roosevelt supports progressive and aggressive political reforms, including the heavy regulation of business. Conservation was a cornerstone of his domestic policy -
Robert La Follette
Progressive activist was elected to the U.S. Senate. -
The Jungle
Was Upton Sinclair's infamous novel that was a story that brought to light the problems in the meat industry. All about getting the government more involved with society problems instead of letting society take care of itself through natural selection. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Passed to protect the public’s health and welfare. -
Meat Inspection Act
passed to protect the public’s health and welfare.
