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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was a temperance reform group composed of religious women who supported the prohibition era. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is an act that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, especially the monopolistic processes. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was a Law that prohibited monopolies and prohibits contracts, combinations, or conspiracies in the topic of trade and commerce. -
Ida. B Wells
Ida. B Wells was an African American women's suffrage leader and feminist. Ida. B Wells established the NAACP. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was an association formed from the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association both of which supported women's rights. -
How the Other Half Lives
A book by Jacob Riis that studied the way immigrants lived in the urban cities among multiple tenats -
Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League was a group that was lobbying for prohibition in American. It was a key component for the Progressive Era. -
John Dewey
John Dewey was a progressive era educational reformer who spread his ideas of education and philosophy. -
Robert La Follette
Robert La Follette was the governor of Wisconsin. He was best known for his progressiveness, his strong dislike to corporate power, and his Wisconsin Plan. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
The Anthracite Coal Strike was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the Anthracite coalfields in Pennsylvania. Miners demanded for high wages, shorter workdays and recognition of their Union. -
Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell was a leading "muckraker" during the progressive era who cracked the oil trust. She wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company -
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens was a New York Reporter who launched a muckrake Article called Tweed Days. Tweed Days was a book about attempting to expose William Tweed for his crimes and corruption -
Northern Securities Antitrust
The Northern Securities Trust was a short lived railroad trust. The company ended in the famous court case, Northern Securities Co. v. United States. As a result the company dissolved. -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act. The act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
The Department of Commerce and Labor was a cabinet department that controlled the big buisnesses -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was created for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act makes it a crime to misbrand meat and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
A book written by Upton Sinclair detailing the harsh environments and conditions for immigrants in urban cities like Chicago. -
Square Deal Policy
The Square Deal Policy was Theodore Roosevelt's policy based on three ideas, protection of the customer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a fire that occurred inside a factory killing 146 people. It was documented as one of the worst industrial accidents to occur in the state of New York. -
Progressive Party (Bull Moose)
The Progressive Party was formed by Former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the previous election to Taft. The party's platform called for tariff reform, stricter regulation of industrial combinations, women's suffrage, prohibition of child labor, and other reforms. -
17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment was a law that was ratified that allowed citizens to vote and elect their Senators -
Underwood Tariff or the Revenue Act of 1913
The Underwood Tariff re-imposed the federal tax income after the ratification of the 16th Amendment and it lowered basic tariff rates. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act was part of the antitrust law that sought to prevent noncompetitive practices. -
Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission was established to preserve competition by preventing unfair business practices and investigate complaints against companies. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act prohibited the sale in interstate commerce of goods and produced by factors that employed children. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment banned the sale and usage of alcohol. This amendment failed due to the popularity of alcohol. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs was head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike. He was arrested with his fellow riot- tees. In jail he emerged a socialist leader in America. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment granted the right for all citizens regardless of sex the ability to have equal voting rights. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was an American leader who pushed for legal birth control during the early 1900s. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
