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Nation American Woman Suffrage Association
Organization that fought to get equal rights for woman -
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
An organization that feared that the abuse of alcohol will affect their family and society. met in churches and marched to saloons -
Interstate Commerce Act
Regulated railroad industries mainly monopolies saying rates had to be reasonable. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Landmark federal statue in U.S history for the antitrust law passed by comgress -
How the Other Half Lives
Studies of the tenement in New York by Jacob Riis photojournalism -
Square Deal Policy
Roosevelt 3 basic rules- protect consumers, control large corporations and conserve natural resources -
Anthracite Coal Strike
U.S coal miners strike in eastern Pennsylvania for higher wages, shorter work days, and recognition lasted 6 months -
Elkins Act
U.S federal law the amended the Interstate Commerce Act, heavy fines on those who didn't follow -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Part of the government that concern of controlling big businesses -
Ida Tarbell
American journalist also a muckraker who cracked oil trust with her book the History of Standard Oil. -
Lincoln Steffens
An author that wanted to expose the corruption in the government in his book Tweed Days in St.Louis -
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist, part of the NAACP to help people nationwide get civil rights -
Northern Securities Antitrust
Case heard by the U.S Supreme court against 5 to 4 stockholders of the northern pacific railroad companies and great northern who formed monopolies -
Pure food and Drug Act
Preventing Manufactures from selling poisoned, misbranded, adulterated, food, drugs, medicine, and -
Meat Inspection Act
Law that makes it a crime if meat is adulterated or misbranded, produced meat must met sanity condition -
The Jungle
written by Upton Sinclair talking about the harsh live immigrants had to live in Chicago and other big cities -
Robert La Follette
Politician who was the Governor of Wisconsin, U.S house of representative member and senator, proponent of progressivism -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Factory in New York was burned down being one of the deadliest in history killing 146 -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Third party formed by Theodore Roosevelt after he lose in the republican party -
Anti Saloon League
An organization prohibiting in the U.S with churches later prohibiting the an amendment -
17th Amendment
Senate of the U.S has to come from both states elected by the people for 6 years -
Underwood Tariff
reimposed the federal income tax after ratification of 16th amendment lowing tariff rates -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress created to establish a federal system for the U.S -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Adding to the U.S antitrust law regime, preventing anticompetitiveness -
Federal Trade Commision
Watched antitrust and consumers protection legislation in pursuit if free and fair competition in market -
John Dewey
A philosopher and educator that way of studding and teaching had changed from philosophy to pragmatic in schooling -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Prohibiting sale interstate commerce of good from factories that employed children under the age 14 -
Margaret Sanger
Birth control activist and sex educator opened her own birth control clinic in New York -
Eugene V. Debs
5 time candidate for Socialist Party and labor organizer. wanted locomotive fireman but was thrown in jail for opposing U.S involvement in WW1 -
18th amendment
Prohibited alcohol in the U.S by saying production, transport , and sale illegal -
19th amendment
Prohibited denying the right to vote to an U.S citizen based on sex
