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Women's Christian Temperance Union
WCTU's primary purpose was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society. It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Federal law designed to regulate railroad industry, especially end monopolies. Required that rates be "reasonable" but gov't did not enact specific rates -
Sherman Anti Trust Act
First law to limit monopolies and wanted to create fairer workforce competition and limit take overs in departments -
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist who led an anti-lynching campaign in the late 1890s -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Was created to advocate for women's suffrage in the United States, by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. -
How the Other Half Lives
Photographed by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
Anti Saloon League
Successful political group that forced prohibition into local and state elections. spearheaded single-issue pressure group strategy -
Anthtracite Coal Strike
T. Roosevelt summoned both sides of WH who reached a compromise of 10% pay increase and a 9 hr work day. (sides threatend to use troops and seize) -
Elkins Act
US federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates and the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. It was created on February 14, 1903, during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt and ceased in 1913. -
Ida Tarbell
muckracker who wrote and published expose on Standard Oil in McClure's in 1903 -
Lincoln Steffens
Muckracker who exposed several corporations and political machines in his collection of works titled "Shame of the Cities" for McClure's magazine. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
Roosevelt's legal attack on the Northern Securities Company and was ruled by SCOTUS 5-4 to be a monopoly. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Was designed to protect against mislabeling of foods and drugs -
Meat Inspection Act
US law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Robert La Follette
Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a direct primary. -
Square Deal Policy
T. Roosevelt's domestic policy with three "Big C's": Conserve natural reservation, control corporations, consumer protection -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
146 garment workers died in a fire because the sweatshop owners locked doors to keep workers in and union organizers out. This led to shorter work weeks for women and minors, and the abolition of labor for those under the age of 14 -
John Dewey
father of pragmatism which favored "learning by doing" ideas which were central in Progressive movement education beliefs. -
Eugene V. Debs
Was the Socialist party's presidential candidate in 1900 and 1912 but received only 96,000 votes, a total he raised to 400,000 in 1904. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
The Republicans were badly split in the 1912 election, so Roosevelt broke away forming his own Progressive Party. His loss led to the election of Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson, but he gained more third party votes than ever before. -
17th Amendment
required US senators to be elected directly by voters. as opposed to state legislators -
Underwood Tariff
reimposed federal tax on income and lowered basic tariff rates to 25%. Signed by POTUS Woodrow Wilson. -
Federal Reserve Act
This act created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal reserve Board as an attempt to provide the United States with a sound yet flexible currency. -
Clayton Anti Trust Act
Forbids monopolies policies, made corps. responsible for antitrust violations, and supported unions -
Federal Trade Commission
Established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its 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
Signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 addressed child labor by prohibiting the sale of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen but was declared unconstitutional in 1918 -
Margaret Sanger
Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1916; also established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. -
18th Amendment
Prohibition amendment which outlawed the use and sale of alcohol/alcholic beverages. (21st amendment in 1931 repeals) -
19th Amendment
states that US citizens cannot be restricted the right to vote based on sex in federal and state elections; gave women the right to vote
