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(NAWSA) National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed to work for women's suffrage in the United States. The goal was to get most states to pass woman’s suffrage, so that Congress would pass an amendment. -
Anti-Salon League
The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th Amendment. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were laws that separated white and black people in public facilities. -
New York Tenement House Law
Established model housing code for safety and sanitation. Such as, minimum size and window requirements, required one full bathroom form every 2 families, Indoor plumbing, and set up Tenement House Department to perform inspections. -
(WTUL) Women's Trade Union League
A US organization of both working class and wealthier women to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions. -
(NCLC) National Child Labor Committee
The National Child Labor Committee, or NCLC, is an organization in the United States that serves as a leading proponent for the national child labor reform movement. -
(FMIA) Federal Meat Inspection Act
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1907 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it a crime to sell or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food. It ensures that the meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Regulated the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. -
Upton Sinclair Published "The Jungle"
"The Jungle" is a 1906 novel written by Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States working in industrialized cities. -
(NAACP)National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States. It is a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans led by W. E. B DuBois. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. The Act regulated child labor by banning the sale of products made by companies that employed children under certain ages. -
(NWP) National Women's Party
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's organization formed as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. -
19th Ammendment
Women were allowed to vote. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
