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First women's organization devoted to social reform with a program that linked secular beliefs and christianity,
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The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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Sherman Antitrust Act is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law passed by Congress in 1890.
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African American journalist who published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to shop in white owned stores
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American women's rights organization was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890. This and other groups led to the nineteenth amendment: women's suffrage.
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Photo documented book that showed the the terrible living conditions in the NY slums .
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Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States
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Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike; he was imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking.
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American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's
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Strike by the United Mine Workers of America asking for higher wages,and shorter workdays in Pennsylvania.
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New York reporter who launched a series of articles titled "The Shame of the Cities" in 1902; unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government
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Roosevelt's legal attack on the Northern Securities Company, which was a railroad holding company owned by James Hill and J.P. Morgan.
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Department established by Roosevelt to deal with domestic economic affairs.
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Amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
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The "Square Deal" domestic policy was adopted by the President in which he pledged not to favor any group of Americans but to be fair to all
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Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics who held a fierce oppostition to corpoerate power and political corruption
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Worked to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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novel by Upton Sinclair detailing the horrors of the meat packing industry
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Act for preventing the sale of poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors .
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146 workers died in a fire because the sweatshop owners locked doors to keep workers in and union organizers out.
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American journalist responsible for breaking up Standard Oil Company's monopoly on the industry .
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Roosevelt ran in this party when he lost republican nomination to Taft
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Calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.
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Reduced levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials.
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Created a central banking system to provide the US with a flexibl currency
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Federal Trade Commission Act empowers the investigation of the activities of trusts and stops unfair trade practices .
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amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
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Act that fought to protect children and instill regulations on child labor
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Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections
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Father of progressive education, was a philosopher who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education.
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Prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol
