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Ida B. Wells
Wells was a journalist, suffrage supporter, and civil activist. She helped in founding the NAACP as well, and held anti-lynching campaigns. -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
This organization rallied for the prohibition and they used the moral superiority of women as a means of gaining members. -
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Act told railroads to make their rates fair and just, but specification was not enforced in the document. -
The Sherman Antitrust Act
This act was to put a curb on the monopolistic ways of American businesses. (Named after John Sherman) -
How The Other Half Lives
This book showcased the filth in which those who resided in tenements in NY were living in. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
This strike was from the coal workers in eastern Pennsylvania who excavated in the anthracite coal mines. They wanted to be recognized as a union, better wages, and fair treatment. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
This association attributed to the suffrage of woman, and was founded by the mergers of two other associations: National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Anti-Saloon League
This league known for their petitioning for the prohibition in the 20th century. -
Robert La Follette
"Fighting Bob" was a Republican and a Representative of the state of Wisconsin. He was also a known Progressionist. -
Eugene V. Debs
Industrial Workers of the World was founded by Eugene and he was put up as the Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party five times. (1900 was the first year he was put up.) -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act required companies to discontinue their dispersal of contaminated, unhealthy, poisonous, and unadulterated, food. -
Ida Tarbell
She was a leading "muckraker" of the progressive times; she is also credited with being the mother of investigative journalism when she cracked the oil trust. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The Northern Securities Antitrust company sued the government for shutting down their services since they were acting as a trust: the government won. -
The Elkins Act
This act amended the Interstate Commerce Act by imposing heavy fines on railroads that gave rebates and on men that used them. -
Department of Commerce and Labour
This department dealt with the excesses of big business, but it was only temporary, and the cabinet was abolished 10 years later. -
Lincoln Steffens
The Shame of the Cities was published by him, which outlines a sociological aspect of the daily like of America's mile high metropolises. (Political expose) -
The Meat Inspection Act
This act made it a crime to adulterate or misrepresent a food product, and it required companies to prepare their meat in sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
This book unveiled the atrocities of which the meat packers in packing towns went through and the lack of hygiene that went into the "wholesome" American meal; the book spurred the Food and Drug Acts. -
The Square Deal
Conservation of natural resources, commerce protection, and the control of corporations were all of Roosevelt's points in his plan. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This tragedy led to the death of 143 workers, and caused the government to put out many laws and regulations to reform the conditions of a sweatshop. -
Bull Moose (Progressive) Party
The party was founded by Roosevelt and advocated for New Nationalism. (Since Roosevelt was not reelected for his own party, he created this one.) -
The 17th Amendment
The amendment resolved that the united states would leave senatorial selection to the states that had the representatives. -
The Underwood Tariff
The tariff lowered the taxes from 40% to 25% and reimposed the federal income tax after it was stripped due to the Sixteenth Amendment. -
The Federal Reserve Act
The introduction of the Central Bank came from this act; the U.S. currency truly became national and the central bank controlled currency. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Was created to eliminate anti -competition practices of the monopolistic businesses of the era. -
The Federal Trade Commission
Anti-trusts and the protection of consumer rights took place; a free, fair marketplace was enforced. -
John Dewey
John Dewey was a social and educational reformer during the Progressive Era; he wrote "Democracy and Education". -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act gave the government the responsibility of regulating interstate commerce; the act also got rid of child labour and made it illegal to buy child produced products. -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger was a birth control advocate, a sex educator, a nurse, and a writer; she wrote "Woman and the New Race". -
The 18th Amendment
This amendment made it illegal to sell alcohol and to but alcohol; led to the creation of speakeasies. -
Yay WAMEN!!!
Woman gained the right to vote due the ratification of these amendment.
