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Eugene V. Debs
as an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World -
Ida B. Wells
a journalist that documented lynching in the us during the 1890's -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
first mass organization among women devoted to social reform -
John Dewey
an educational reformerwho published books about education -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America -
Interstate Commerce Act
a federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry -
Ida Tarbell
she was one of the leading muckrakers and pioneered investigative journalism -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
was formed to work for women's suffrage in the United States -
Sherman Antitrust Act
it prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts. -
How the Other Half Lives
serves as basis for "muckrakers" and jounalism investigating deep into poverty and slums. -
Anti-Saloon League
lobbied for prohibition in the us in the early 20th century -
Square Deal Policy
he Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
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. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The company was sued in 1902 under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by the Justice Department under President Theodore Roosevelt, one of the first anti-trust cases filed against corporate interests instead of labor -
Anthracite Coal Strike
a strike that set Theodore roosevelt's big stick diplomacy to work. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business -
Elkins Act
The railroad companies were not permitted to offer rebates after this ammendment -
Robert La Follette
vocal opposition of trusts, bossism, and world war 1 -
Meat Inspection Act
worked to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and sanitation stuff -
The Jungle
published by upton sinclair, talked about the meatpackign and poverty -
Pure Food and Drug Act
a key piece of progressive legislation, it was put into place so that people would be at least eating sanitary meat that was being processed. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft -
17th Amendment
established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
Underwood Tariff
also known as the states revenue act, lowered basic tariff rates from 25 to 40 percent, and re-imposed the federal income tax -
Federal Reserve Act
created and established the federal reserve -
Clayton Antitrust Act
topics like price discrimination, price fixing and unfair business practices -
Federal Trade Commission
Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
wouldn't let people buy things from people who employed children -
19th Amendment
prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex -
18th Amendment
the prohibition of alchohol
