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WCTU
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was originally organized on this day. They entered saloons singing, praying, and urging saloon owners to stop selling alcohol. WCTU was founded in Hillsboro, Ohio. -
Women Considered Citizens
In 1875 women by the supreem coart are ruled citizens but denied citizenship. On automatically conferred the right to vote. -
Women As High School Graduates
By January 1st, 1890 women had had more high school graduates then men. -
Shermin Anti-trust Act
This act was to stop big buisness from taking advantage to jack up prices even higher because of lack of competition. The acts vague language made enforcment difficult to enforce. -
Anti Saloon League
Temperance advocates formed the Ohio Anti Saloon League in Oberlin, Ohio. The members of this league believed that American society was in moral decline. As people were moving from rural areas to urban ones, many americans believed that they were loosing their touvh with religious value. -
American Socialist Party
The American Socialist Party made a statement on the uneven balance of power between the goverment, big buisness, and ordinary people. -
National Child Labor
Investigations on child labor in many states were conducted which led to Keating V. Owen act. -
NSC Desolved
Supreme court disolved the NSC for monopoly. -
The Jungle
The Jungle was a book written by Upton Sinclair about the human condition in the stockyards in Chicago. -
Pure Food And Drug Act
PFD Act haulted the sale of contaminated food and drugs to the communities and called for the truth of labeling. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
In new York City, at TSF a fire killed 146 women most of them were young. -
Democrats Win
Govenor Woodrow Wilson becomes president for the democrats in the 1912 election, -
Great Dayton Flood
The Great Dayton Flood floodedd Dayton, Ohio and the surrounding area with water from the Great Miami River, causing the greatest natural disaster in Ohio history. In response, Ohio passed the Vonderheide Act o allow the Ohio state Goverment to form the Miami Conservancy Didtrict, -
NAACP
The NAACP had gained over 6,000 members. -
Letter to Henry Ford
A homemaker complained in a letter to Henry Ford "that $5 is a blessing - a bigger one than you know but oh they earn it." -
The Keeting-Owen Act
The Keeting-Owen Child Labor act of 1916 was named after its sponsors. This act prohibited th shipment or delivery of any foreign good or services that were produced by a child under the age of 14 in a factory. And prohibited anyone under the age or 16 to work in a mine. -
Reforming Local Goverment
By 1917 500 cities had followed Galveston's example to take charge of the different city department. -
Bunting V. Oregon
Work days for all employees was now ten hours officially. -
Keating-Owen Act Declared Unconstitutional
Declared unconstitutional because of it's interference with state rights to regulate labor. However reformers succeeded in nearly every state by affecting legislation that banned child labor and set maximum hours. -
Recall Referendum Initive
20 States had adopted at least one of these controlls.
