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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform, still active -
Eugene V. Debs
American union leader and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World . 5x candidate for president -
Interstate Commerce Act
designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices -
How the Other Half Lives
book by Jacob Riis documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association -
Ida B. Wells
an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement -
Sherman Antitrust Act
prohibits contracts, combinations, or conspiracies “in the restraint of trade or commerce" -
Anti-Saloon League
lobbied prohibition -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union -
Department of Commerce and Labor
promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment -
Elkins Act
authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates -
Northern Securities Antitrust
stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies had formed a monopoly, court case to dissolve the Northern Securities Company -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair, portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
Meat Inspection Act
ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions -
Pure Food and Drug Act
preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors -
Square Deal Policy
protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City and the United States -
Prgressive (Bull Moose) Party
called for tariff reform, stricter regulation of industrial combinations, women's suffrage, prohibition of child labor, and other reforms -
Federal Reserve Act
provided the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system -
Underwood Tariff
re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment -
17th Amendment
established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
Federal Trade Commission
administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation -
Clayton Antitrust Act
had the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime -
Margaret Sanger
activist for birth control and opened the first birth control clinic -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
tried to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen as well as other circumstances -
18th Ammedment
prohibition -
19th Amendment
gave women the right to vote -
Robert La Follette
progressive, against corporate power -
Lincoln Steffens
exposed the bribery and corruption in the government in his writing -
Ida Tarbell
known as the muckraker who cracked the oil trust -
John Dewey
His ideas about education sprang from a philosophy of pragmatism and were central to the Progressive Movement in schooling
