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A woman's group that fought for women's rights, prison reform, labor laws, and suffrage.
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He argued against participation in railroad strikes.
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The Interstate Commerce Act is a federal law to regulate the railroad industry to keep them from forming monopolies.
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Written by Jacob Riis, it explained the living conditions in the slums of New York City.
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The group worked for women's suffrage.
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This was one of the first measures to prohibit trusts.
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Organization formed to prevent the consumtion of alcohol and shut down the places that sold alcohol.
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A 100 page pamphelt desribing all of the lynching of blacks since 1863.
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The coal miners working in anthracite coal fields went on strike for having low wages and long hours.
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They helped control the excess of big business.
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The act allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates and on the shippers who accepted them.
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A series of articles written by Ida Tarbell that exoosed the the Standard Oil Company for all of their unethically ways.
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Made up of articles exposing the corruption in government and businesses, The Shame of the Cities helped bring support for reforms.
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Nothern Securities Company violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and went to court with it and as a result the Northern Securities Company was forced to shut down.
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Robert La Follette fought for many reforms and believed in peaceful disputes.
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The act was passed to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support.
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The Meat Inspection Act was passed to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to make sure meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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Written by Upton Sinclair, it exposed the horrific conditions of the meat industry.
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One of the deadliest industry fires in New York sparked a series of new regulations and laws that protected the saftey of factory workers.
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Created by Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt hoped that it would allow him to win the election against Taft.
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The seventeenth amendment allowed the people to vote for U.S. senators.
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The Federal Reserve Act established the central banking system of the United States.
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A reduction to the tariff that allowed for more competitive pricing.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act was an amendment to clarify and supplement the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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This act was made to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor.
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Opened by Margaret Sanger, who fought for the use of birth control, a term she coined.
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John Dewey and others form a school that taught an emphasizes on free exchange of intellectual ideas in the arts and social sciences.
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This amendment abolished the production, transport, and sale of alcohol.
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The nineteenth amendment allowed woman the right to vote.
