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Ida Tarbell
A leading progressivist, and muckracker; investigative journalist. -
John Dewey
American philosopher and psychologist who was extremely influencial regarding education and social reform. -
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist, sufragette, and early civil rights activist. -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
An organization that was focused on sacred principals by outlawing alchohol. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This was a federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
An association formed to help women's sufferage. -
How the Other Half Lives
This was a publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis. He documented the horrible living conditions in New York City slums during the 1880s. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first federal act that outlied monopolistic practices. -
Anti-Saloon League
This was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. He was also the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States five times. -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. The term "birth control"was quickly coined by her,and she opened the first birth control clinic in the United States -
Square Deal Policy
Roosevelt's domestic policy that consisted of conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
This was a strike by the United Mine Workers in the anthracite coalfields of Pennsylvania. The men on strike asked for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
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. -
Lincoln Steffens
Was the most famous of the American muckraker journalists of 1903-1910. -
Elkins Act
The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
This established President Theodore Roosevelt's reputation as a "trust buster"and reached the Supreme Court in 1904. It was the first example of Roosevelt’s use of anti-trust legislation, and avert monopolies. -
Meat Inspection Act
Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago -
Robert La Follette
Follette was a U.S. republicsn senate. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
preventing 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 Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
An agressive, and progressive led by former Preident Roosevelt. -
Underwood Tariff
Its purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials. To compensate for the loss of revenue, the act levied a graduated income tax on U.S. residents. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
Clayton Antitrust Act
amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Federal Trade Commission
Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
The Act prohibited the shipment or delivery for shipment for interstate or foreign sale of any goods or services that were produced by laborers under the age of 14 in a factory, shop or cannery and under the age of 16 in a mine. Also, child laborers under 16 years old could only work from 6am to 7pm and not for more than eight hours a day and not more than six days a week. -
18th Amendment
18th Amendment is ratified and prohibition of alchohol is law. It was repealed December 3, 1933 -
19th Amendment
guarantees all American women the right to vote.
