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Seneca Falls Convention
Organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and they created the Declaration of Sentiments which was a blueprint for suffrage movement -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Inspired by religious morals AND wives/mothers whose male family members became abusive, alcoholics, broke, etc. due to drinking.
Lobbied for local alcohol bans, and anti-alcohol education programs -
National American Women's Suffrage Movement
Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to get most states to pass woman's suffrage, Congress had to pass an amendment. Had a 3 part strategy to pass woman's suffrage. -
Anti-Saloon League Formed
Argued for prohibition in order to make cities safer, workers would be more efficient, and to help Americanize immigrants, all without alcohol. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th amendment. “Separate but equal” (okay to have separate items for blacks and whites, but had to be same quality). Legalized racial segregation for 60 years -
New York Tenement House Law
Established the model housing code for safety and sanitation of tenements in New York -
National Child Labor Committee
Collected evidence to document the conditions faced by child laborers, and hired Lewis Hines to photograph children working in their labor environments -
Upton Sinclair Publishes The Jungle
Sinclair exposed the horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry, and it led to reforms in the food industry -
Pure Food and Drug Act Passed
Regulated the production and sale of food and medicines, prevented poisonous or spoiled products from being sold, and it formed the Food and Drug Administration. -
Meat Inspection Act Passed
Authorized the federal inspection of meat products, the meat sources were inspected before and after death, and sanitary standards were created from processing plants and slaughterhouses. -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Formed by W.E.B. DuBois in order to get equal rights for African Americans, and their tactic was to change/fix laws -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
A fire erupted in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory which caused many young women to be trapped in the building and be burned to death. -
Keating Owen Child Labor Act Passed
This 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. -
18th Amendment Passed
The 18th Amendment banned manufacturers, sale, or transportation of alcohol, but it was not illegal to drink
