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Seneca Falls Convention
First womens rights convention, organized by Lucretia Mott and Elisabeth Cady Stanton. Almost 200 women in attendance -
National Child Labor Commitee
Group that fought to end Child Labor and hired people to take pictures and expose the evils in Child Labor -
NAWSA
The National American Woman Suffrage Association to work for women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association -
Anti Saloon League
Group of people that supported Prohibition and wanted to get immigrants to stop drinking so they would be Americanized, -
Plessy V. Fergusen
Law case that set up "separate but equal laws" which was basically legalized segregation -
Tenement House Law Act
Created better conditions and more regulations for poor people living in tenements -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Book that exposed bad working conditions in Meat Packing industry/ -
Meat inspection Act
Makes it illegal to misbrand or adulterate meat that is sold as food -
Pure food and drug act
Pure Food and Drug Act prevents the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Industrial disaster where146 people died after a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory due to a cigarette being dropped. -
17th Amendment
US senate is composed of two senators for each state that are directly elected by people. -
Keating Owen Child Labor Act
Put regulations on age and prohibited sale or production of everything from someone who is 14 or younger. This did not stand and was seen as unconstitutional. -
18th Ammendment
Banned the transportation, sale, and production of alcohol. -
19th Ammendment
Declared that the right to vote shall not be denied by the sex of people.
