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Robert La Follette
He was an American Republican politician that served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Governor of Wisconsin, and a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin -
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. -
Ida Tarbell
She was an American teacher, author and journalist that was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism. -
John Dewey
He was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. -
Ida B. Wells
She was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Lincoln Steffens
He 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. -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
It was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that had far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity. -
Margaret Sanger
She was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She also popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. -
Interstate Commerce Act
It is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
It was formed to work for women's suffrage in the United States. -
How the Other Half Lives
It was a study among the Tenements of New York was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
It's a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890. -
Anti-Saloon League
It was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
Square Deal Policy
It was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
It's a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
It was a Cabinet department of the United States government, which was 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. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
It was an American railroad trust formed by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller and their associates. The company controlled the Northern Pacific Railway; Great Northern Railway; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; and other associated lines. -
The Jungle
It's a novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair, which portrayed the harsh conditions and lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It's an act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Meat Inspection Act
It's an United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat from being sold as food and to ensure that meat are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan was in New York City, and was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
17th Amendment
It was to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
It was an American political party that was formed by Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft. -
Underwood Tariff
It re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%, and it was signed by Woodrow Wilson. -
Federal Reserve Act
It is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, and also it central the banking system of the United States, -
Federal Trade Commission
It is an independent agency of the United States government. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
It's an amendment passed by the U.S. Congress that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
It was by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any facility where children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily. -
19th Amendment
It was to the United States Constitution, and it prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex -
18th Amendment
It established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (not the consumption or private possession) illegal.
