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Muckraking
Muckraking refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines. -
Carrie A. Nation
Carrie Amelia Moore Nation was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol in pre-Prohibition America. -
Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. -
Robert LaFollete
Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) was an American Republican (and later a Progressive) politician. -
Ida Tarbell
She was an American teacher, author, and journalist. -
Jane Addams/Hull House
Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. -
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is famous for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union. -
Upton Sinclair
He was an American author and one time candidate for governor of California. -
Sherman Anti Trust Act North
A landmark federal statute on United States competition law passed by Congress -
US vs. EC Knight Co. 1895
United States v. E. C. Knight Co., 156 U.S. (1895), also known as the "Sugar Trust Case," was a United States Supreme Court case that limited the government's power to control monopolies. -
The Anthracite Coal Strike
The Anthracite Coal Strike was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. -
Northern Securities vs. United States 1904
Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904), was a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1903. The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies -
Payne Aldrich Tariff 1909
The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 (ch. 6, 36 Stat. 11), named for Representative Sereno E. Payne (R-NY) and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI), began in the United States House of Representatives as a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States. -
Mann Elkins Act
The Mann–Elkins Act was a 1910 United States federal law that was among the Progressive era reforms. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. -
American Tobacco vs. United States 1911
A decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that the combination in this case is one in restraint of trade and an attempt to monopolize the business of tobacco in interstate commerce within the prohibitions of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
17th Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
Progressive/Bull Moose Party
An American political party formed by President Roosevelt in 1912. It was formed after a split in the Republican Party. -
Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson defeated Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs in the election of 1912. -
16th Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendmen to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. -
Federal Reserve Act
An act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States, which made the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal (but not the consumption). -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
