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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
First mass organization of women devoted to social reform that was linked with religion. Was pro prohibition. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A federal law designed to regulate the railroad industry. -
How the Other Half Lives
Photojournalism by Jacob Riis that documented the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Let the government institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Created to merger the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). -
Ida B. Wells
An African-American journalist and activist who led the anti-lynching crusade in the US -
Eugene V. Debs
(Eugene V.) Debs was head of the American Railway and the director ofthe Pulman strike. -
John Dewey
Father of progressive education, he believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Published "The Schooo and Society" -
Northern Securities Antitrust
An American railroad trust sued in 1902 under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
The United Mine Workers of America iwere on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Anti-Saloon League
The main organization lobbying for prohibation in the US. -
Ida Tarbell
She was one of the leading muckrakers and a pioneer in progressive journalism. Wrote History of the Standard Oil trust. -
Square Deal Policy
Helped the middle class and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts. Protected businesses from the most extreme demands of organized labor. -
Elkins Act
It authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates -
Lincoln Steffens
The most famous muckraker journalists. His exposés on corruption in the government and businessed helped build support for reform. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Their job was to create jobs, promote economic growth, encourage sustainable development and improve standards of living. -
Meat Inspection Act
Works to prevent meats from being sold if they are misbranded and to make sure meat processes are sanitary. -
The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair about the meat packing industry -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevents the manufacture, or sale of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, ect. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
New York fire where 146 garment workers died from fire or jumping to their deaths -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
The party Roosevelt joined when taking on Taft, Wilson ended up winning the election. -
Federal Reserve Act
Created the current Federal Reserve System, established economic stabilty. -
17th Amendment
Established how senators are voted for. -
Underwood Tariff
Re-established the federal income tax and lowered tariff rates. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Passed by Congress to provide clarification to the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
Federal Trade Commission
Passed by Wilson. Board with broad authority to regulate unfair and deceptive business practices. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Ended child labor, and the selling products made from child labor. Signed by Woodrow Wilson -
Margaret Sanger
She was a birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Opened the first birth control clinic in the US. -
19th Amendment
Granted woman the right to vote. -
18th Amendment
When all the states ratiffied the 18th ammendment. Banned alcoholic beverages. -
Robert La Follette
He was a vocal opponent of railroad trusts, bossism, World War I, and the League of Nations. A member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
