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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. -
Robert La Follette
A governor in Wisconsin who took control from the corporations and gave it back to the people. -
John Dewey
A leading advocate for pragmatism, a “practical, matter of fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems” -
Ida B. Wells
An african american journalist that advocated for african americans to protest using streetcars and shopping in white owned stores, as well as publishing stats on lynchings. -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Using women’s “greater purity and morality” they advocated for the prohibition of alcohol. -
Interstate Commerce Act
In order to make the monopolized railroad industry fair, the interstate commerce act was put in place. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This made it so that there was no monopolies but more competition. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The new president of the NAWSA, Carrie Catt, continued in trying to secure women’s votes at state government levels before she pushed for an amendment to the Constitution. -
How the Other Half Lives
A series of photojournalism pieces by Jacob Riis showing the living conditions in NYC slums. -
Anti-Saloon League
An alliance of people who sought prohibition. -
Eugene V. Debs
A former railway union leader who was the Socialist party’s candidate for presidency in 1900 and again in 1920, who was a candid fault-finder of business and pushed for labor. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Strike performed by the United Mine Workers of America, for higher wages and shorter workdays. -
Elkins Act
As an amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act, this law authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to place heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Established by Roosevelt to deal with domestic economic affairs. -
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. -
Lincoln Steffens
Wrote The Shame of the Cities and investigated local governments. -
The Jungle
A book written to show the harsh conditions immigrants in the US in industrialized cities were living in. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevented products that would have been harmful or poisonous from being distributed. -
Meat Inspection Act
Made it a crime to degrade or mislabel meat and meat products sold as food, in order to ensure that they were being slaughtered and processed in sanitary conditions. -
Square Deal Policy
A policy created by Theodore Roosevelt in order to protect the consumer by controlling the larger corporations and conserving natural resources. -
Ida Tarbell
A teacher who is believed to have started investigative journalism. She belonged to the “muckrakers” -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Fire that occured in a locked factory, killing many people. This case had the effect of increasing government regulation of factory safety conditions. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
The Progressive Republican Party, renamed the Bull Moose party after Theodore Roosevelt and his claim that he was as strong as a bull moose. -
Underwood Tariff
Lowered basic tariff rates and re-imposed the federal income tax after the 16th amendment. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act the established the federal reserve system and which created the authority to issue federal reserve notes. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Because of the vague speech in the Sherman Antitrust Act, providing numerous loopholes for corporations, Congress passed the Clayton Antitrust Act to clarify and strengthen the previous act. -
Federal Trade Commission
Agency that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in order for free and fair competition. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Law enacted by the US Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen. -
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist, sex educator, writer and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established Planned Parenthood. -
18th Amendment
Banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. -
19th Amendment
An amendment that provides both men and women equal rights in voting, as well as stating that the right of voting to citizens cannot be denied based on sex by the US or any state court.
