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Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
This group advocated for prohibition by using women’s supposed greater purity and morality as a rallying point. The significance of this event is that it was a group that demonstrated women’s involvement in societal issues. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This is important because it passed well needed regulations on railroad companies and prevented them from taking advantage of farmers. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act forbade combinations in restraint trade without distinction between good and bad trusts.
loopholes in the act caused it to be ultimately ineffective. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Founders included famous women’s rights supporters such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. In 1900 Carrie Chapman Catt became the new leader and took emphasis off women should be able to vote because of rights but that they are equal to men. -
How the Other Half Lives
Published by Jacob Ritz, this book described the “damning indictment of the dirt, disease, vice, and misery of the rat- gnawed human rookeries known as New York slums.” - the textbook -
Anti- Saloon League
An anti- alcohol group that pushed for prohibition significant because they are the reason for the passing of the 18th amendment. -
Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 1855- October 20, 1926
Leader of the Pullman strike of 1894, helped to organize the American Railway Union of about 150,000 members. -
Ida B. Wells
July 16, 1892- March 25, 1931
This person is important because, in 1892, she encouraged black women to mount an antilynching crusade, which led to the formation of National Association of Colored Women in 1896. -
Robert La Follette
June 14, 1855- June 18, 1925
Took control from corporations and gave it back to the people, also he regulated public utilities. -
Square Deal Policy
This deal is important because it is the first- ever threat to capital rather than labor. It lead to changes in the workplace such as, a 10% pay increase and a workday reduction to 9 hours. -
Lincoln Steffens
April 6, 1866- August 9, 1936
Published a series of articles that revealed the corrupt alliance between big business and the government. This article is called “The Shame of the Cities.” -
Anthracite Coal Strike
This is an important event because it calls attention to better workplace conditions such as higher wages, shorter workdays, and recognition of labor unions. -
Elkins Act
Beginning of the railroad legislation and was aimed primarily at the rebate evil. Granted the ability to imposed heavy fines on the railroads that gave the rebates and the shippers that accepted them. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Designed to settle disputes between labor and capitalists and included the Bureau of Corporations. -
Ida Tarbell
November 5, 1857- January 6, 1944,
Ida Tarbell is significant because she published her book the “History of the Standard Oil Trust” in 1904 and exposed the corrupt practices of Rockefeller's standard oil company. -
John Dewey
October 20, 1859- June 1, 1952
Faculty of Columbia University from 1904 to 1930, set the foundation for progressive education by setting forth his principles of “learning by doing.” -
Northern Securities Antitrust
This act called for the National Securities Company to be dissolved, jolted Wall Street, angered big business, and enhanced Roosevelt’s reputation as a trust smasher. -
The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair this book was published to attract attention to the plight of the workers in the big canning factories however, appalled the public with its description of disgustingly unsanitary food products. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The significance of this act is that is prevented adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals. -
Meat Inspection Act
Stated that the preparation of meat being shipped over states lines would be subject to federal inspection. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
146 workers, most of them young immigrant women, were burned to death or leapt from 8th and 9th story windows after locked doors and other violations turned a factory into a death trap. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Roosevelt ran as the nominee for the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party after not being winning the Republican nomination. Splitting the Republican votes and caused the Democratic nominee, Woodrow Wilson to win. -
17th Amendment
This amendment established the direct election of senators. -
Underwood Tariff
This bill, proposed by president Woodrow Wilson, called for a substantial reduction in tax rates. It reduced import fees and was a landmark in tax legislation. -
Federal Reserve Act
This act called for the appointing of a Federal Reserve board that oversaw a nationwide system of twelve districts. The federal reserve was also created to issue paper money and regulate the amount of money in circulation. This act carried America through the financial crisis of the First World War. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This act added on to the Sherman act by lengthening the list of business practices deemed objectionable. These practices include: price discrimination, and interlocking directorates( the same individuals serving as directors for supposedly competing firms). The Clayton act also legalized strikes and peaceful picketing. -
Federal Trade Commission
This act gave power to a government appointed agencies to better regulate industries engaged in interstate commerce. Also, it was expected to crush monopolies by getting rid of unfair practices such as, unlawful competition, false advertising, mislabeling, adulteration, and bribery. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act is the first federal attempt to place restrictions on child labor. -
18th Amendment
This amendment initiated the prohibition error. -
19th Amendment
This amendment granted suffrage to all American women. -
Margaret Sanger
September 14, 1879- September 6, 1966
Sanger began an organized birth control movement in 1923. Alice Paul’s National Women’s party began to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
