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Prohibitionist feared that alcohol was undermining american morals. The woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), founded in Cleveland in 1874 started crusades to advance their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.
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As momentum grew, the WCTU was transformed from a small religious group to a national ogranization.
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The National Child Labor Committee sent investigators to gather evidence of children working in harsh conditions.
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"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair was a novel intended to reveal the sickening truth of the meatpacking industry. After President Roosevlet read the novel, he immediately responded. The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed to ensure safer products and called for truth in labeling.
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This act halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines ans called for truth in labeling. Althogh this act did not ban harmful products, truth labeling would give accurate information and help people make better choices.
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This act dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created the program of federal meat inspection that was in use until it was replaced with more sophistcated techniques in the 1990's.
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Taff is elected president.
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The NationalAssociation for the Advancement of Colored People. This was made of African Americans and with prominent white reformers from New York.
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By 1911, the WCTU had 240,000 memebers. The largest women's group in the nation's history.
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Dangerous condions, low wages, and long hours led many females to push for reform. In 1911, a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaste Factory in New York City left 146 workers, most of which were women, dead.
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In 1912, Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected President after the Rebublican Party split.
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Wilson lobbied hard for the Underwood Act. Its purpose was to sustantially reduce tariff rates for the first time since the civil war.
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Ratified in 1913, the sixteenth amendment legalized federal income tax, which provieded revenue by taxing individual earnings and corporate profits.
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In 1914, to keep automobile workers happy and to prevent strikes, Henry Ford reduced the workday to eight hours and paid workers five dollars a day, a good wage in 1914. This incentive attracted thousands of workers.
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Sought to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust act; the Clayton Antitrust Act prohibited coroporations from aquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly. It also made strikes, peaceful picketing, boycotts and the collection of strike benefits legal.
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This agency was given the power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statues, to require periodic reports from corporations, and to put an end to a number of unfair business practices.
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William Monroe Trotter led the delegation. Trotter complained that African Americans from 38 states had asked the president to reverse the segregation of government of employees.
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Woodrow Wilson is reelected as president.
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In 1919, women were finally granted the right to vote. The Amendment won final ratification in August 1920; 72 years after women had fisrt convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.
