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robert la follette
was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin -
Eugene v. Debs
an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
ida tarbell
an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism. -
John Dewey
was an American philosopher, psychologist, democratic socialist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. -
ida b. wells
an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Lincoln steffens
an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century. -
national american woman suffrage association
was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. -
woman's christian temperance union
an active international temperance organization that was among the first organizations of 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. -
Margaret Sanger
an 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. -
Interstate commerce act
a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Sherman antitrust act
the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
How the other half lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
anti-saloon league
the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
square deal policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
anthracite coal strike
a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. -
elkins act
United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
department of commerce and labor
was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. -
northern securities antitrust
was a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1903. 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. -
The Jungle
written in 1904 by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
meat inspection act
is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
pure food and drug act
the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration -
triangle shirtwaist fire
Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) party
a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé, incumbent President William Howard Taft. -
17th amendment
modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. -
underwood tariff
re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates -
federal reserve act
an Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. -
clayton antitrust act
a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
federal trade commission
an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. -
Keating-Owen child labor act
was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate -
18th amendment
the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure. -
19th amendment
the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights.
