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Women's Christian Temperance Movement
Campaigned for labor laws, prison reform, suffrage, and not to drink alcohol -
John Dewey
American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic, and political activist -
Interstate Commerce Act
Federal law in the U.S that was designed to regulate railroad industry, it required that railroad rates be reasonable and just, but the government didn't fix specific rates -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Committed American government to opposing monopolies, the law prohibits contracts, combinations, or conspiracies in restraint of trade or commerce -
National American Women Suffrage Association
Created by a merger of two existing women's suffrage organizations, worked for women's suffrage in the U.S -
How the Other Half Lives
Book written by Jacob Riis, early publication of photojournalism documenting horrible living conditions in New York City slums -
Anti-Saloon League
Leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the U.S -
Ida B. Wells
Wrote "The Red Record", fought for women's rights -
Square Deal Policy
Domestic policy under Theodore Roosevelt based on the ideas of protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Strike by the United Mine Workers of America and the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania, workers wanted higher wages, shorter work days, and recognition of their union -
Northern Securities Antitrust
Supreme Court ruled against stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had formed a monopoly, and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company -
Elkins Act
Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon that shippers that accepted these rebates -
Department of Commerce and Labor
Short-lived cabinet department of U.S government, concerned with controlling excesses of businesses -
Ida Tarbell
Wrote "The History of the Standard Oil Company" -
Lincoln Steffens
Wrote "The Shame of Cities", reports on the workings of corrupt political machines -
Eugene V Debs
One of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious food, drugs, medicines, and liquors -
Meat Inspection Act
Makes it a crime to mis-adulterate or mis-brand meat and meat products being sold as food, ensures meat is sold under sanitary conditions -
The Jungle
Book written by Upton Sinclair about the meat packing industry in Chicago -
Robert La Follette
American Republican politician, proponent of progressivism and opposed to corporate power -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York, deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Third party formed by Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party -
17th Amendment
Direct election of senators, The Senate of the United States has two senators from each state, each getting one vote -
Underwood Tariff
Purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured and semi manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials -
Federal Reserve Act
Act of congress that created and established the Federal Reserve, the central banking system of the U.S -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Part of U.S antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S antitrust law regime, sought to prevent anti-competitive practices in their incipience -
Federal Trade Commission
Federal agency that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Short-lived statute which addressed child labor -
18th Amendment
Prohibition of alcohol -
19th Amendment
The right of any U.S citizen to vote no matter their gender -
Margaret Sanger
Writer of "Woman and the New Race", birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse
