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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Organization of woman who advocated social reform and promoted temperance. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A United States federal law that regulated the railroad industry for rates to be just. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
A federal law that made the government oppose monopolies and prohibit contracts. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was a suffragist, feminist, and led an anti-lynching crusade. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Organization formed for women's suffrage and social advocates. Key figures were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -
How the Other Half Lives
Photojounalism by Jacob Riis that showed studies among the tenement in New York. -
Anti-Saloon League
A Ohio state organization promoting national prohibition. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Miners in eastern Pennsylvania struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and union. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The court ruled against stockholders who formed a monopoly and dissolved the Northern Securities Company. -
Elkins Act
Act that amended Interstate Commerce Act which authorized ICC to impose fines on railroads. -
Ida Tarbell
A american journalist who stopped the oil trust and known as a leading muckraker. -
Lincoln Steffens
A reporter who wrote series of articles called Tweed Days and published as "The Shame of the Cities" -
Eugene v. Debs
A union leader and founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Act for preventing misbrand or poisonous foods and drugs to be sold. -
Meat Inspection Act
Law that made it a crime to misbrand meat and ensured sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair wrote novel to portray conditions and lives of immigrants in Chicago and described meat factories. -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's policy for protection of consumer, control of corporations, and conserving resources. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Factory fire in New York City and was deadliest industrial disaster in history. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Party formed by President Roosevelt which called for tariff reform, reforms, and restriction on industry -
17th Admendment
The Senate would compose of two senators and elected by the people. -
Underwood Tariff
The tariff re-established federal income tax under Woodrow Wilson. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department was created to develop welfare of workers and control big businesses. -
Federal Reserve Act
Act created Federal Reserve System and issued the dollar under Woodrow Wilson's presidency. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Law that added to the Sherman Antitrust Act, which furthered specific prohibited actions of monopolies. -
Federal Trade Commission
An agency that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation. -
John Dewey
He was a philosopher that believed people learned through hands-on activities. He wrote Democracy and Education". -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
AKA Wick's Bill was enacted by Congress to address child labor. It prohibited the sale of goods made by factories that employed children. -
Margaret Sanger
She was a birth control activist and sex educator. She opend the first birth control clinic. -
18th Admendment
Amendment banned the sale of alcohol and was a huge fail. -
19th Admendment
All citizens of the United States could vote and weren't denied by their sex. -
Robert La Follette
He was a Republican and progressive politician. He ran for president under his own Progressive Party.
