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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The WCTU was the major movement for women which would make a huge difference in the suffrage movement -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act was established to regulate the railroad monopolies that were present within the states to a rate of expense that was not specificed by the government. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act prohibited the combination of restraint of other conspiracy of trade that would detriment the flow of the economy and instill a monopoly -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Formed by two opposite policy organizations, the NAWSA was the main influence to the rights of women in todays standards -
How the Other Half Lives
A novel by Jacob Riis that explained the life in the slums of immigrants and the lower class of the industrial America that was covered in plague and infamy -
Anti-Saloon League
What once began as a state organization in Ohio evolved into a national organization that heavily influenced the eighteenth amendment -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The company controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and other associated lines -
Anthracite Coal Strike
After failure of the government to acknowledge the union of their fight for equality and fairness, the coal miners went on strike to take a stand against the government -
Lincoln Steffens
Famous for the investigations in the municipal companies in big cities, Steffens is most famously known for the novel The Shame of the Cities -
Square Deal Policy
natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection was the main goal of the square deal policy which was industrialized to protect business and labor -
Elkins Act
This act ended the common practice of giving rebates to their most valued customers -
Department of Commerce and Labor
A short lived government department that was associated with the affairs of the excess of big businesses -
Ida Tarbell
Tarbell was a female author that wrote about the standards of oil and crippled rockefeller through her famous book ¨The History of the Standard Oil Company¨ -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act was purposeful to the extent of exposing the preparation of food at the industrial level and promote foods that were genuinely healthy instead of labeled falsely so. -
Meat Inspection Act
As a result of the book ¨The Jungle¨ by Upton Sinclair there was an uproar of the meat industry that lead to the revolution of the meat packing industry -
The Jungle
The book by Upton Sinclair that rose anarchy over the meat packing industry and influenced the meat inspection act -
Ida B Wells
A journalist for the equality of blacks and whites, Wells lead the anti-lynching crusade -
Robert La Follette
A popular republican congressman, Follette was known for his prograssive movement acts and the main contributor to the McKinley act -
The Seventeenth Amendment
Regulated the election of the state senates by the popular vote of the people of the United States -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The most infamous occurrence in the city of New York, the factory fire led to many workers reforms and strikes that revolutionized industrial America -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Formed by the former president at the time, Theodore Roosevelt, it was formed from the split of the republican party and william taft, another former president -
Eugene V. Debs
The organizer of the American Railway Union and a socialist party leader in the American political life -
Underwood Tariff
reimposed the federal tax income to be lowered from 40% to 25% -
Federal Reserve Act
This act created and established the federal reserve -
Federal Trade Commission
An independent agency that further assisted the prevention of the monopolies and the improvement of consumer protection -
Clayton Anittrust Act
This act discouraged the formation of monopolies and promoted the competition of all of the various businesses -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This labor law prevented the shipment of anything produced by anyone under the age of 14 for the profit of an organiation -
Margaret Sanger
The first woman in America that innovated the idea of ¨birth control¨ and she was also a key contributor to the Planned Parenthood organization -
John Dewey
John Dewey is known for his education and philospohy reforms for he revolutionized the modern thought of learning. -
The Nineteenth Amendment
This amendment denied the restriction of vote by anyone based on gender -
18th Amendment
The amendment for the prohibition of alcohol was short lived as the amendment was repealed twice as it was ratified twice as the twenty-first amendment as well.
