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La Follette was a progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and state legislatures to REQUIRE primary elections for each party.
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Debs was head of the American Railway Union, director of the Pullman Strike, and a strong socialist leader.
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The father of the progressive movement, he believed in learning by doing which resulted in the formation of progressive education.
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African American journalist who published statistics on lynching urging African Americans to protest.
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This union advocated for the prohibition of alcohol using women's morality and pureness as a good rally point.
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Founder of Planned Parenthood, Sanger was leader of the movement to legalize birth control in the early 1900's.
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In 1887, Congress passed this law for farmers who wanted to stop price discrimination and other unlawful practices of the railroads.
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American woman's rights organization founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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Signed by Harrison and used by Roosevelt, this was the first federal action officially banning monopolies.
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Published by Jacob Riis, this book gave an opportunity for the public to see the lives of the true lower-class, specifically immigrants and people living in tenements.
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Forcing the prohibition issue, the league was the most succesful action group to do so.
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Penn. coal-miner stiker in which Roosevelt called both political sides to the White House and reached a compromise of a 10% wage increase and only a nine-hour day.
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NY reporter who launched a series of articles for McClure titled, "The Shame of The Citites."
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Muckracker whose History of the Standard Oil Company ran in McClure's Magazine.
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A federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 by authorizing the Interstate Commerce Commision to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates.
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Established by Roosevlet, this department dealt with domestic economic affairs and later split into two seperate facilities for better management purposes.
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President Rossevlet's plan for reform including equal opportutnity, demolishing trusts, mroe government regulation in big business, and environmental conservation.
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Roosevlet attacked the Northern Securities Company, railroad company owned by J. P. Morgan for monopolizing.
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Published by muckracker Upton Sinclair, this book exposed the disgusting details of the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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The first law to regulate manufacturing of food and medicines, banning dangerous additives and incorrect labeling.
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Largely in reaction to Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", this act was passed to set strict standards on the cleanliness of food.
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Industrial disaster in New York City that killed 146 people who either died in the fire or jumped out of the burning building.
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The 17th Amendment calls for direct election of senators by the voters instead of the state legislators.
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Party started by Roosevelt when he broke away from the Republican Party.
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Congressional measure to provide substantial reduction rates and the first ever implementation of a graduated income tax on incomes 300+
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An act that created and established the central banking system of America.
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Approved by Wilson, this act empowered a president-appointed position to investigate trusts and stop unfair practices.
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Corrected defincies of Sherman Anti-Trust Act by outlawing monopolisitic practices and interlocking directorates.
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Signed by Wilson, this act ended child labor and the selling products made from child labor.
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Extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
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Amendment that established the production, selling, or transport of alcohol illegal.
