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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The first mass organization of woman focusing on social reform such as the power of alcohol -
Eugene V Debs
A labor organizer and socialist, he was elected into the Indiana State Assembly and presidentail candidate for five years for the Union -
Interstate Commerce Act
An act to regulate the railroad monopolies. -
National American Women Suffrage Association
The combination of the National Women Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association to advocate for women's rights -
How the Other Half Lives
Written by Jacob Riis, this novel describes living in the slums of New York -
Ida B Wells
She was an Afircan American journalist who was a social activists against lynching and for Civil Rights Movement -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This was the first act that outlawed monopolies and trusts -
Anti Saloon Leauge
This group started a crusade against the manufaction, sale, and consumption of alcohol in the United States -
Anthracite Coal Strike
The strike by mine workers in eastern Pennsylvania for higher wages and shorter work days. -
Ida Tarbell
She was an American journalist for McClure's magazine and helped to break down the Standard Oil Company's monopoly -
Department of Commerce and Labor
President Roosevelt created this cabinet to deal with the business community, organized labor, and agricultural industry -
Elkins Act
Amended the Interstate Commerce Act by allowing heavy taxes on railroads tha offer rebates -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The U. S Supreme Court ruled againt the railroad stock owners and disbanded the North Securities Company -
John Dewey
He was an American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic, and political activist that became president of the American Psychological Association and the American Philosophical Association -
Square Deal
The name for Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policies that believes that all parties should get a fair deal. -
Lincoln Steffens
He was an the most famous muckraker American journalist, lecturer, and political pholisipher that wrote articles in McClure magazine to expose corruption in business that were later published as "The Shame of the Cities" -
The Jungle
Written by Upton SInclair Jr, this novel describes the harsh and unsanitary conditions of the factories -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An effort to protect people from the manufaction, sale, and transportation of adultered, misbranded, posinous, or deterious food, drugs, medicines, and liquors -
Meat Insepection Act
This worked to prevent adultered or misbranded meat products from being sold -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught fire and was a huge industrial disaster leading to improved factory saftey standards -
17th Amendment
This allowed regular voters so elect Senators -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Formed by President Roosevelt, became an American political party after the Republican party split -
Underwood Tariff
To reduce taxes on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods, income tax for American residents rose -
Federal Reserve Act
Established the Federal Reserve System as the central banking system -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This act clarifies and supplements the Sherman Antitrust Act -
Federal Trade Commission Act
The promotion of consumer protection and avoid coercive monopolies -
Margaret Sanger Opens First Birth Clinic
This lead to her arrest and founding of American Birth Control League -
Keating Owen Child Labor Act
This regulated youth labor, from maximum amount of hours and prohibiting products made by any child under 14 -
18th Amendment
Prohibition of manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol -
19th Amendment
This gave women the right to vote -
Robert La Follette
He was governor of Wisconsin, and in Senate, and the leader and presidental candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action.
