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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
This union was the "first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."" -
John Dewey
Dewey was a leading proponent of the American school of thought known as pragmatism. -
Eugene V. Debs
Debs entered politics as a Democratic candidate for city clerk. -
Margaret Sanger
She waas an early feminist and women's rights activist who created the term "birth control" and worked towards its legalization. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Act was made to regulate the railroad industry. It required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
NAWSA was formed to work for women's suffrage in the United States. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This sct outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
How the Other Half Lives
A book written used to allude to the way of life of a different group in society, especially a wealthier one. -
The Square Deal Policy
The "Square Deal" domestic policy was adopted by Roosevelt where he pledged not to favor any group of Americans but to be fair to all. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Strike by the U.S. mine workers asking for higher wages, shorter workdays, and for the recognition of their union. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
This was a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court where they ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly, and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company. -
Elkins Act
Law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act which authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
This was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government that was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business -
Ida Tarbell
She wrote the book,"The History of the Standard Oil Company". This book started investigativee journalism, -
Lincoln Steffens
He was an investigative reporter and he published articles titled, :The Shame of the Cities". The articles were where he investigated corruption in municible government. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. -
Meat Inspection Act
This act prevented adulterated or misbranded meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat products were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
This book was written by Upton Sinclair. He 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
He was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1906 to 1925 -
Ida B. Wells
She was one of the founders of NAACP in 1909. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
The Progressive Bull Moose Party was a former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt -
Underwood Tarrif
The tariff act "re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates." -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This was an amendment passed by the U.S. Congress that prohibited exclusive sales contracts, local price cutting to freeze out competitors, rebates, interlocking directorates in corporations capitalized at $1 million or more in the same field of business, and intercorporate stock holdings. -
Federal Trade Commission
It was a federal agency that administered antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace. -
17th Amendment
This amendment states that senators were elected by state legislatures. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act was enacted by the U.S. Congress 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 two worked at night or more than 48 hours daily. -
18th Amendment
The amendment prohibited of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol -
19th Amendment
This amendment gave American women the right to vote. -
Anti-Saloon League
It "was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century."
