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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Founded by Frances Willard, this union advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act created an Interstate Commerce Comission to oversee and regulate the railroad industry. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association combined to form this association that pushed for ratification of enough state suffrage amendments to force Congress to approve a federal amendment -
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis was a photojournalist whose publication served s a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This was the first federal antitrust law that prohibited trusts. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President. -
Anti-Saloon League
This league became a national organization and quickly rose to become the most powerful prohibition lobby in America, pushing aside its older competitors the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Prohibition Party -
Ida B. Wells
She helped launch the black women's club movement, which turned into the National Association of Colored Women. -
Lincoln Steffens
He launched a series of articles in McClure's titled "the Shame of the Cities" which displayed the corrupt alliance between big businesses and municipal government. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The Northern Secuites Antitrust was a short lived American railroad trust formed in 1901 but it was sued it 1902 in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
This coal strike of 1902 was led by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania who threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply in hopes for higher wages, shorter work days, and recognition of their union, -
United States Department of Commerce and Labor
The United States Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. -
Elkins Act
The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Square Deal Policy
President Rossevlet's plan for reform including equal opportutnity, demolishing trusts, mroe government regulation in big business, and environmental conservation. -
Ida Tarbell
She was one of the prominent "muckrakers" in the progressive era and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism. She earned a national reputation for publishing a scathing history of the Standard Oil Company, the "Mother of Trusts". -
John Dewey
The father of the progressive movement, he believed in learning by doing which resulted in the formation of progressive education. -
The Jungle
This novel exposed the horrible and unsanitary conditions of the U.S. meat packing industry. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 is a United States Congress Act that works to prevent misbranded meat from being sold as food and to keep sanitary conditions up to code. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act protected the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support, which ultimatley led to the creatin of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
145 workers were killed in this infamous fire becuase of faulty safety features, which brought widespread attention to the need for safety laws leading to the establishment of said laws. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
This party, formally known as the Progressive Party, nominated TR as their candidate to run for President. -
17th Amendment
17th Amendment Established that senators were to be elected directly, which was intended to create a more democratic, fair society. -
Underwood Tariff
This tariff was one of Wilson's ideas thats purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials -
Federal Reserve Act
This act created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal Reserve Board and it was an attempt to provide the United States with a sound yet flexible currency. -
Federal Trade Commission
Established to preserve competition by preventing unfair business practices and investigate complaints against companies. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This act lenghtened Sherman Act's list of business practices that were deemed objectionable, including price discrimination and interlocking directorates. It also conferred long-overdue benefits on labor. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This actlimited the working hours of children and forbade the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor, but was deemed unconstitutional in 1918. -
19th Amendment
19th Amendment Established that no citizen can be denied the right to vote on account of sex. -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger was leader of the movement to legalize birth control and she founded the American Birt Control League, along with Planned Parenthood. -
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in 1924 winning 17% of the national popular vote and was an influencial third party candidate. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.
