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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Started as a group to advocate for temperance, but later expanded to advocate for labor laws, prison reform, and suffrage. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry and break up monopolies. The act did not give the government the power to fix the certain rates. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Law that opposes monopolies and prohibits contracts, combinations, or conspiracies in restricting trade. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Advocated for women's right to vote on the basis that it would make them better wives and mothers. -
How The Other Half Lives
A novel by Jacob Riis which details the lives of lower class, especially immigrants -
Ida B Wells
Editor of a black newspaper called the Memphis Free Speech. Spent her life campaigning against lynching and Jim Crow Laws. -
Anti-Saloon League
League created to close down all saloons and laws. Part of the prohibition movement, they would later start to raid bars. -
John Dewey
Advocated pragmatism and encouraged Americans to question the practice of Laissez-Faire capitalism. -
Eugene V Debs
One of the founders of the Socialist party, Eugene was a critic of business and a champion of labor -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Strike from coal miners against union leaders. Led to Roosevelt's Square Deal. -
Ida Tarbell
Wrote the History of the Standard Oil Company which was an example of muckraking during the Progressive Era. Helped to expose the corruption in big business. -
Square Deal Policy
A compromise between coal miners and union leaders where the coal miners would continue working, and in return, wages would increase and hours would shorten. -
Elkins Act
Allowed the ICC to have greater authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favored customers -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Roosevelt created to deal with domestic, economic affairs -
Lincoln Steffens
Wrote The Shame of the Cities which described the corrupt deals in big-city politics. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
A combination of railroads that Roosevelt tried to break up during his various trust busts -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled foods and drugs. -
Meat Inspection Act
In reaction to The Jungle, Congress made it so that federal inspectors had to visit meatpacking plants to ensure that they met minimum standards of sanitation -
The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair, the book exposes the poor conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Industrial fire that killed 146 workers. Brought attention to unsafe working conditions and needs for regulations. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Party started by Roosevelt when be broke away from the Republican Party -
17th Amendment
Direct election of U.S. senators -
Underwood Tariff
Wilson passed the Underwood Tariff which lowered tariffs for the first time in over 50 years. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Furthered the actions of the Sherman Antitrust Act, but also stated that workers unions were not considered trusts -
Federal Reserve Act
Created the central banking system of America which made it so that Americans use Federal Reserve Notes -
Federal Trade Commission
Regulatory agency that investigates and takes action against any "unfair trade practice" in ever industry except banking and transportation -
Robert La Follette
Governor from Wisconsin who created the direct primary to end corruption in politics -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Legislation act which prohibited the sale of goods produced by factories that used child labor under different circumstances -
Margaret Sanger
Advocate for the use of birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S., and also helped create acceptance on the use of birth control -
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote -
18th Amendment
Made the production, selling, or transport of alcohol illegal
