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Eugene V. Debs
An American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
The first mass organization among 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
With this act, the railroads became the first industry subject to Federal regulation. -
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives together with its sequel Battle with the Slum reveal through Riis’s sensationalist prose and photography the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) to fight for women's suffrage. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Issued on my birthday, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
Ida B. Wells
an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Miners were on strike in PA asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Square Deal Policy
It aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. -
Elkins Act
The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. -
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 Company. -
John Dewey
Dewey was a major inspiration for several allied movements that have shaped 20th century thought, including empiricism, humanism, naturalism, contextualism, and process philosophy. -
Lincoln Steffens
he became managing editor of McClure’s Magazine, he began to publish the influential articles later collected as The Shame of the Cities. -
Meat Inspection Act
A United States Congress 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. -
Robert La Follette
U.S. leader of the Progressive Movement, who as governor of Wisconsin (1901–06) and U.S. senator (1906–25) was noted for his support of reform legislation. -
The Jungle
From an opening chapter that recounts the joyous wedding of the main character, Jurgis Rudkus, Sinclair traced the family’s experience with work in Packingtown. In the process, he exposed in disgusting detail the inner workings of the meatpacking industry. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An Act for 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. -
Ida Tarbell
An American journalist best known for her pioneering investigative reporting that led to the breakup of the Standard Oil Company’s monopoly. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft. -
17th Amendment
Senators Elected by Popular Vote. 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. -
Underwood Tariff
Re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates. -
Federal Reserve Act
An 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 (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollar) and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
Federal Trade Commission
A federal agency that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
An amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
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. -
19th Amendment
It granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. -
18th Amendment
Effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession).
