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National american woman suffrage association
American political organization that worked from 1869 to 1890 to gain for women the right to vote. -
Women's christian temperance union
among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." -
Interstate commerce act
railroads became the first industry subject to Federal regulation -
Ida B Wells
led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
How the Other Half Lives
shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions -
Sherman antitrust act
the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices -
Anti-saloon league
the leading organization promoting National Prohibition in the U.S. It was a non-partisan political pressure group that began in 1893. A single-issue lobbying group, it had branches across the country. It worked with churches in marshaling resources for the prohibition fight. -
John Dewey
a founder of the philosophical movement known as pragmatism, a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leader of the progressive movement in education in the United States. -
Eugene V Debs
labor organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920 -
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. -
Anthracite coal strike
Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Lincoln Steffens
the most famous of the American muckraker journalists of the period 1903-1910. His exposés of corruption in government and business helped build support for reform. -
Elkins 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
a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. -
Ida Tarbell
best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company, one of the most thorough accounts of the rise of a business monopoly and its use of unfair practices -
Northern securities antitrust
he Northern Securities Case broadened the meaning of commerce showing that commerce extends to the regulation of the ownership of stock -
The Jungle
to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. -
Meat inspection act
came about largely due to the conditions in the meat packing industry that were detailed in great depth in Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, "The Jungle." -
Pure food and drug act
the first federal law to regulate foods and drugs and a direct result of the scandals of the unsanitary methods used by the food industry that were revealed in 'The Jungle' written by the Progressive author Upton Sinclair -
Triangle shirtwaist fire
opened the nation's eyes to poor working conditions in garment factories and other workplaces, and set in motion a historic era of labor reforms -
Robert La Follette
university research should be applied to solve problems and improve health, quality of life, the environment, and agriculture for all citizens of the state. -
Progressive (bull moose) party
Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote, allowing Wilson a victory with 42 percent electoral support. In essence, Wilson's divided opposition opened the way for his election. The rise and fall of the Bull Moose Party had important ramifications for the Republican Party -
17th amendment
gives voters the power to directly elect their senators. It also states that the U.S. Senate includes two senators from each state, and that each senator has one vote in the Senate. -
Underwood tariff
re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%, well below the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. -
Federal reserve act
created the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson -
Clayton antitrust act
was the basis for a great many important and much-publicized suits against large corporations. Later amendments to the act strengthened its provisions against unfair price cutting (1936) and intercorporate stock holdings (1950). -
Federal trade commission
Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. -
Keating-Owen child labor act
It relied on Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, which they decided included the manufacture of products. The Supreme Court disagreed, and declared the act to be unconstitutional in 1918. -
18th amendment
imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol. -
19th amendment
officially extended the right to vote to women. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women.
