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National American Women's Suffrage Association
President: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Goal: Achieve equality among races in a civil and ladylike way -
1893: Anti-Saloon League
Group created to make cities safer, wanted to make workers more effective and help immigrants adapt to the American lifestyle -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th Amendment -
New York Tenement House Laws
Established model housing code for safety and sanitation
Minimum size and window requirements
Required one full bathroom for every 2 families
Indoor plumbing
Setup tenement house department to perform inspections -
1904: National Child Labor Committee
Hire photographer, Lewis Hines, to take pictures
Labor Unions want this to happen so they can get a raise -
Meat Inspection Act of 1906
Authorized federal inspection of meat products -
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Regulated product of sale food and medicines
and prevented poisonous or spoiled products from being sold -
The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair and revealed the truth about the meat packing industry -
National Association of the Advancement of Colored People
Wanted to achieve equal rights for African Americans
They wanted to change the laws so that they were in the books and if they weren't there was nothing to protect them. -
Triangle Shirt Waist Factory
Fire that was caused due to poor working conditions in a factory that ended up taking the lives of 145 women. -
18th Amendment
1917 congress passed 18th amendment: banned “manufacture, sale, or transportation” of alcohol
Was not illegal to drink
Easily ratified
Prior to amendment: 22 states had prohibition laws
Went into effect Jan. 1920 -
19th Amendment
The right of the 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