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Woman's Christian Temperance Movement
Women's groups of the 19th century by expanding its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform and suffrage.sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity. -
Interstate commerce act
regulates railroads and monopolies and required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The law prohibits contracts, combinations, or conspiracies “in the restraint of trade or commerce." -
Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States. She went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution -
How the Other Half Lives
is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880 -
Anti Saloon League
Promoted National Prohibition in the U.S. A single-issue lobbying group, it had branches across the country. It worked with churches in marshaling resources for the prohibition fight -
John Dewey
education of Pragmatism and they believe that reality must be experienced. From Dewey's educational point of view, this means that students must interact with their environment in order to adapt and learn -
Eugene V. Debs
was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World , and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union -
Lincoln Steffens
Wanted to expose the bribery and corruption in the government. Lincoln Steffens Exposed William "Boss" Tweed by writing "Tweed Days in St.Louis"Magazine -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The Court 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
The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates -
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 -
Ida Tarbell
She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism and published the The History of the Standard Oil Company -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Meat Inspection Act
a crime to adulterate or and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
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 M. La Follette
a proponent of progressivism and a fierce opponent to corporate power. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Governor of Wisconsin and a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin during his career -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Factory was set on fire and was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, advocating popular control of government, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, woman suffrage -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. -
Underwood Tariff
Its purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
Clayton Antitrust Act
adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anti competitive practices in their incipience -
Federal Trade Commission
administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Wick's Bill, short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen -
Margaret Sanger
She was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.She was afraid of what would happen, so she fled to Britain until she knew it was safe to return to the US -
18th Amendment
United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
