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Women's Christian Temperence Union
Led by Francis Willard, this group of women lobbied for local alcohol bans and anti-alcohol education programs. They also worked for suffrage because if they had the right to vote, they'd be able to vote for an alcohol ban. -
Jim Crow Laws
A number of laws, usually found in Southern states, aimed to restrict the rights of African Americans until they had nothing. These laws allowed segregation between white and colored (mostly black) people in public facilities. -
NAWSA
National American Woman's Suffrage Association, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and was supported by female trade unions.They wanted to get as many states as possible to pass women's suffrage because then Congress would HAVE to pass an ammendment. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
That separating the races in public did not violate the 14th amendment that protected African Americans' rights. The "separate but equal" mindset legalized racial segregation for 60 years. -
New York Tenement House Law
Required safer and more sanitary tenement housing conditions, such as a minimum amount and size of windows, minimum amount of bathrooms per family, inspections, etc. -
National Child Labor Committee
Collects evidence documenting child labor, hires a photographer to document the child labor. -
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair published
Exposed the working conditions of the meatpacking industry, and led to huge reforms in the entire food industry. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Didn't let people make and/or sell illegal and poisonous drugs to people. -
Meat Inspection Act
Caused mandatory food inspections to happen. -
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, led by W.E.B. Du Bois, goal was to get equal rights for African Americans by changing the laws. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Shirtwaist seamstresses are locked in their work room to prohibit smuggling supplies. A dropped cigarette ignites the building and the cloth into flames. -
National Women's Party
The National Women's Party is created and led by Alice Paul, a women's rights and suffrage activist. She wanted to separate from NAWSA because of her extreme and radical views and methods of how progress should be made for women. She encouraged mass protests, marches, and hunger strikes. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Prohibited buying or selling any goods produced by laborers under the age of 16 in a mine, 14 in a factory, shop, or cannery. Also had inspectors randomly go to a workplace to see if any children were illegally working. -
18th Amendment
Congress passed a ban on the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol -
19th Amendment
President Woodrow Wilson gave in to women's suffrage as thanks for all the women did in WWI, 39 states have full or partial women's suffrage.
