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Robert La Follette
American Republican and politician who is best known as a proponent of progressivism and a fierce opponent to corporate power. Also was governor, senate member, and ran for president once -
Eugene V. Debs
Debs helped motivate the American Left to organise political opposition to corporations and World War I. -
Ida Tarbell
Practiced Muckraking journalism and tried to take down Standard Oil when working with McClure's magazine -
John Dewey
An American philosopher, psychologist, democratic socialist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South. -
Lincoln Steffens
One of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era which led to increase in journalism in this era -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
First organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." -
Margaret Sanger
started a publication promoting a woman's right to birth control (a term that she coined)In 1916 she opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. Sanger fought for women's rights her entire life. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Was designed to regulate monopolies in business (one of the first acts to do so); was ineffective at first -
Sherman Antitrust Act
First thing to outlaw monopolies by regulating competition within businesses (ineffective at first, but does become useful late on) -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Another Women's social reform group that focused on women's rights. -
How the Other Half Lives
early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. About the problems with Urbanization and sought to expose the slums for what they were -
Anti-Saloon League
Helped with the Temperance Movement and eventually banned alcohol in 1915 -
Anthracite Coal Strike
The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 resulted in a victory for the hard-coal miners with a 10% increase in wages and an hours reduction in their working day. (Square deal). President Roosevelt intervention led to the establishment of the federal government as a mediator between powerful groups in society -
Elkins Act
mended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. So made it stronger making businesses loosing their power -
Department of Commerce and Labor
short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Main purpose was to create jobs, promote economic growth, encourage sustainable development and improve standards of living for all Americans -
Northern Securities Antitrust
Important RR company that controlled multiple RRs and basically had a monoply -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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. -
The Jungle
brought to light the problems in the meat industry. It was tied to the rise of the Progressive Era was all about getting the government more involved with society problems instead of letting them fend for themselves -
Meat Inspection Act
American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. After the Meat Scandal -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. (Was an accident that killed 145 people due to safety conditions) -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
They split the republican vote, and allowed for Wilson to win the next election -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment is important because it actually broke the United States Government and broke the balance of power between the federal government and the state governments by requiring the direct election of Senators. Shows publics growing power -
Underwood Tariff
Re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25% -
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Clayton Act sought to prevent anti-competitive practices in their incipiency and to further competition -
Federal Trade Commission
promoted consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as monopolies -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment called for the banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages, and was created due to the Temperance Movement at the time in the US -
19th Amendment
Gave woman right to vote in the US and ultimately gave women a higher role in society
