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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Among the first orgaizations of women devoted to social refirm that linked the religious and secular ways based on Christianity. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A federal law that was meant to regulate railroad industry, mainly it's monopolisitc areas. Required railroad rates be reasonable. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Merged two former organizations in attempt to create equal rights and decide whether the 15th Amendment should be supported or not. -
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist, editor, suffragist, feminist, and early leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Led an Anti-lynching crusade. -
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis documented the slums of New York, what he deemed the world of the “other half,” teeming with immigrants, disease, and abuse. -
Anti-Saloon League
Began as a state organization, non-partisan focused on prohibition. Had branches across the U.S to get resources for the prohibition fight. -
John Dewey
He changed fundamental approaches to teaching and learning which was from the philosophy of pragmatism. -
Eugene V. Debs
Debs organized the American Railway Union, which waged a strike against the Pullman Company of Chicago in 1894. After embracing socialism, he became the party’s standard-bearer in five presidential elections. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his opposition to the United States’ involvement in World War I. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
It was the first time that the President took direct, non-militant action. It was a coal strike by the United Mine Workers of America for higher wages and shorter workdays. -
Elkins Act
Championed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to end the practice of rebates. Rebates were refunds to businesses which shipped large quantities on the railroads, and many railroad companies disliked it. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
The U.S. Department of Labor was created after a long campaign by labor leaders to win Cabinet status for the agency. -
Ida Tarbell
Most known for the muckraker who cracked the oil trust, She made the novel The History of the Standard Oil Company. -
Lincoln Steffens
Launched a series of articles that would later be in a book called The Shame of Cities. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
Established President Theodore Roosevelt’s reputation as a “trust buster,” reached the Supreme Court in 1904. It was the first example of Roosevelt’s use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly, in this case a holding company controlling the principal railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
It was for preventing the manufacture, sale, and transportation of misbranded and poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors for regulating food and drugs. Made possible by the book, The Jungle. -
Meat Inspection Act
Prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
The Jungle had a deep and immediate political impact on the country, sending shock waves throughout the United States and causing cries for labor and agricultural reform. -
Robert La Foillette
U.S. leader of the Progressive Movement, who as governor of Wisconsin, and U.S. senator and was noted for his support of reform legislation. He was the unsuccessful presidential candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action. -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on the protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. There were 146 deaths and 71 non-fatal injuries. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912. -
Underwood Tariff
Also known as the Revenue Act, re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the 16th amendment and lower tariff rates. -
17th Amendment
The Senate should be composed of two Senators from each state elected by the people for six years, and each Senator can have one vote. -
Federal Reserve Act
Established the Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Clayton Anti-trsut Act
It was passed to clarify the Sherman Act on topics such as price discrimination, price fixing, and unfair business practices. -
Federal Trade Commision
Independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. 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
The act banned the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14, from any mine that employed children under the age of 16, and from any facility that had children under the age of 16 work at night or for more than 8 hours during the day. -
Margaret Sanger
Opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States. An advocate for women’s reproductive rights who was also a vocal eugenics enthusiast. -
18th Amendment
Only Amendment to ever have been repealed from the United States Constitution. Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
19th Amendment
Granted Women the right to vote and to prohibit states from denying the right to vote based on sex. This was made possible after the Women's Suffrage Movement.
