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The Women's Christian Temperance Union was a mass organization that believed in emerging religion with secular ideals to promote social reform.
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The Interstate Commerce Act was passed to create an Interstate Commerce Commission to monitor the conduct of the railroad industry
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The National American Women's Suffrage Association was an organization that stressed the importance and desire for women's suffrage.
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"How the Other Half Lives' is a book written by Jacob Riis that portrays living conditions in New York slums.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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The Anti-Saloon League was an organization that lobbied for the prohibition of alcohol, it got most of its support for the South and rural North.
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Debs organized the American Railway Union that staged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago.
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Ida B. Wells led a protest in Washington, D.C based a anti-lynching campaign and urged McKinley to make reforms.
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The Square Deal Policy was a policy brought forth by Theodore Roosevelt that aimed at helping middle class citizens. 3 C's: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
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The Anthracite Coal Strike was a strike of workers in Pennsylvania, the workers were striking for shorter workdays, higher wages, and recognition of their union. It was the first labor strike that had to be neutralized by the government.
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Ida Tarbell published "The History of the Standard Oil Company," which was an expose of the Rockefeller corporation.
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The Department of Commmerce and Labor was created to create jobs, boost the economy,and improve the standard of living.
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The Elkins Act is a law that amended to the Railroad Act of 1887, it authorized the ICC to impose heavy taxes on railroads that offered rebates.
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Linconln Steffens published the articles "The Shames of a City." The articles was considered muckraking journalism and it exposed the corrupt political machines in major U.S cities.
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The Northern Securities Anti-trust was Roosevelt's first example of use the anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monoply.
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Robert La Follete was elected U.S Senate.
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The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair that exposed the harsh conditions of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities.
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The Pure Food & Drugs Act led to the creation of the Food & Drugs Administration (FDA), its purpose was to ban foreign traffic in mislabeled food and drug products.
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The Meat Inspection Act aims at ensuring that meat and meat products are slaughtered and proccessed under sanitary conditions, it also worked to prevent meat from being misbranded or mislabeled.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was factory fire in Manhattan, NY; it was the deadliest industrial disaster in the city.
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The Progressive Party (Bull Moose) was found by Theodore Roosevelt.
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The 17th amendment, which allowed voters to vote directly for the U.S Senate, was passed by Congress.
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The Underwood Tariff was passed with the aims of reducing taxes that applied to manufactured goods, and to grant duty-free raw materials.
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The Federal Reserve Act created and established the Federal Reserve System and granted it the authority to grant U.S Dollars.
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The Federal Trade Commission was founded to promote consumer protection and eliminate the practices of anti-competitive business
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The Clayton Anti-trust Act sought to strengthen the Sherman Anit-trust Act, it attempts to prohibit certain actions that could lead to anti-competitiveness.
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Sangers published "What Every Mother Should Know" and "What Evey Girl Should Know," the books were significant because they show the rise of feminism.
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The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act limited the amount of hours a child could work and also forbade the sale of goods produced by child labor.
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The 18th Admendment declared the sale, transport, and production of alcohol illegal.
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The 19th amendment, which granted women's suffrage, was passed by Congress.
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John Dewey published "The Public and Its Problems."
