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National American Women's Suffrage Association
National Woman Suffrage Association, an American organization based in New York City, was created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that linked the religious and the secular throughreform strategies based on applied Christianity. -
Ida B. Wells
Wells was a journalist and became an owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, and, later, of the Free Speech. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The interstste commerce act made the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation, helping regulate the rail road monopolies. -
How The Other Half Lives
Full of unapologetically harsh accounts of life in the worst slums of New York, fascinating and terrible statistics on tenement living, and reproductions of his revelatory photographs, How the Other Half Lives was a shock to many New Yorkers, and an immediate success. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League was a single-issue lobbying group that worked with churches in fighting for prohibition. -
Ida Minerva Tarbell
Tarbell wrote “The History of the Standard Oil Company,” a 19-part series, and book, which shows the pattern of deceit, secrecy and unregulated concentration of power that characterized the Gilded Age business practice. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women, as well as being a sex euducator and nurse. -
Lincoln Steffens
Steffens became managing editor of McClure’s Magazine, he began to publish the influential articles later collected as The Shame of the Cities in 1906, a work closer to a documented sociological case study. -
Square Deal
The Square Deal was a domestic program which included a promise to battle large industrial combinations, or trusts, which threatened to restrain trade. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
The Anthracite Strike was an effort by the United Mine Workers to get higher wages, shorter hours, and recognition of their union. -
Elkins Act
The Elkins 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 Case
Northern Securities case was a federal prosecution in which President Roosevelt ordered the Department of Justice to take the Northern Securities Company to court for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act in his “trust-busting” efforts to break up big business monopolies. -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Robert La Follette
Robert La Follette was a leader of the Progressive Movement, who as governor of Wisconsin, and later a U.S. senator, was noted for his support of reform legislation. -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed becuase of the appallingly unsanitary conditions of the country’s manufacturing plants, especially those in Chicago’s meat-packing industry. -
Meat Inspection Act
The meat inspecion act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers. Remembered as one of the most infamous incidents, as the deaths were largely preventable, the tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protect the workers. -
Eugene V. Debs
Debs was the Socialist party’s standard-bearer in five presidential elections, and in 1912, in a four-way race with Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft, he received 6 percent of the vote-his highest total ever. -
Progressive Bull Moose Party
The Bull Moose Party was a dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
The United States Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. -
Underwood Tariff
The Underwood Tariff re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act intended to establish a form of economic stability through the introduction of the Central Bank, which would be in charge of monetary policy, into the United States. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act is an amendment passed by the U.S. Congress that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher and educator who was a founder of the philosophical movement known as pragmatism, a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leader of the progressive movement in education in the United States. -
keating-owens child labor act
The act banned the sale of products from any factory or shop that employed children under the age of 14, from any mine that employed children under the age of 16, and from any facility that had children under the age of 16 work at night or for more than 8 hours during the day. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
