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Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Founded in 1874, this organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point. Advocates of prohibition in the United States found common cause with activists elsewhere, especially in Britain, and in the 1880s they founded the World Women's Christian Temperance Union, which sent missionaries around the world to spread the gospel of temperance. -
Spanish-American War
he Spanish- American War began in April of 1898 and ended in August of 1898. It was a war fought by the United States and Spain. Two factors that caused the war was the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana, Cuba on September 15 of 1898. The other factor was the ongoing struggle by the Cubans and Filipinos under Spanish rule. As a result of the war Cuba was declared independent and the annexation of the Philippines. -
Roosevelt Corollary
A brazen policy of "preventive intervention" advocated by Theodore Roosevelt in his Annual Message to Congress in 1904. Adding ballast to the Monroe Doctrine, his corollary stipulated that the United States would retain a right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin American nations in order to restore military and financial order. -
Meat Inspection Act
A law passed by Congress to subject meat shipped over state lines to federal inspection. The publication of t Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, earliest that year so disgusted the American consumers with its description of conditions in slaughterhouses and meat packing plant it mobilize public support for government action. -
Muller v Oregon
landmark Supreme Court case in which crusading attorney (and future Supreme Court Justice) Louis D. Brandeis persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of limiting the hours of women workers. Coming on the heels of Lochner v. New York, it established a different standard of male and female workers. -
Workingmen's Compensation Act
Also known as the Federal Employees' Compensation Act provided financial assistance, medical services and rehabilitation to federal employees who have been injured at work. It started off for just federal employees but later on included workers of every industry. Companies and businesses try to protect their employees and themselves from such accidents, now it sometimes even leads to lawsuits to the business/ company accountable.
