Progressive Era

  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union

    Woman's Christian Temperance Union

    The first mass organization of woman focusing on social reform such as the power of alcohol
  • Eugene V Debs

    Eugene V Debs

    A labor organizer and socialist, he was elected into the Indiana State Assembly and presidentail candidate for five years for the Union
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    An act to regulate the railroad monopolies.
  • National American Women Suffrage Association

    National American Women Suffrage Association

    The combination of the National Women Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association to advocate for women's rights
  • How the Other Half Lives

    How the Other Half Lives

    Written by Jacob Riis, this novel describes living in the slums of New York
  • Ida B Wells

    Ida B Wells

    She was an Afircan American journalist who was a social activists against lynching and for Civil Rights Movement
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    This was the first act that outlawed monopolies and trusts
  • Anti Saloon Leauge

    Anti Saloon Leauge

    This group started a crusade against the manufaction, sale, and consumption of alcohol in the United States
  • Anthracite Coal Strike

    Anthracite Coal Strike

    The strike by mine workers in eastern Pennsylvania for higher wages and shorter work days.
  • Ida Tarbell

    Ida Tarbell

    She was an American journalist for McClure's magazine and helped to break down the Standard Oil Company's monopoly
  • Department of Commerce and Labor

    Department of Commerce and Labor

    President Roosevelt created this cabinet to deal with the business community, organized labor, and agricultural industry
  • Elkins Act

    Elkins Act

    Amended the Interstate Commerce Act by allowing heavy taxes on railroads tha offer rebates
  • Northern Securities Antitrust

    Northern Securities Antitrust

    The U. S Supreme Court ruled againt the railroad stock owners and disbanded the North Securities Company
  • John Dewey

    John Dewey

    He was an American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic, and political activist that became president of the American Psychological Association and the American Philosophical Association
  • Square Deal

    Square Deal

    The name for Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policies that believes that all parties should get a fair deal.
  • Lincoln Steffens

    Lincoln Steffens

    He was an the most famous muckraker American journalist, lecturer, and political pholisipher that wrote articles in McClure magazine to expose corruption in business that were later published as "The Shame of the Cities"
  • The Jungle

    The Jungle

    Written by Upton SInclair Jr, this novel describes the harsh and unsanitary conditions of the factories
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    An effort to protect people from the manufaction, sale, and transportation of adultered, misbranded, posinous, or deterious food, drugs, medicines, and liquors
  • Meat Insepection Act

    Meat Insepection Act

    This worked to prevent adultered or misbranded meat products from being sold
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught fire and was a huge industrial disaster leading to improved factory saftey standards
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    This allowed regular voters so elect Senators
  • Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

    Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

    Formed by President Roosevelt, became an American political party after the Republican party split
  • Underwood Tariff

    Underwood Tariff

    To reduce taxes on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods, income tax for American residents rose
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Established the Federal Reserve System as the central banking system
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    This act clarifies and supplements the Sherman Antitrust Act
  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    Federal Trade Commission Act

    The promotion of consumer protection and avoid coercive monopolies
  • Margaret Sanger Opens First Birth Clinic

    Margaret Sanger Opens First Birth Clinic

    This lead to her arrest and founding of American Birth Control League
  • Keating Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating Owen Child Labor Act

    This regulated youth labor, from maximum amount of hours and prohibiting products made by any child under 14
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Prohibition of manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    This gave women the right to vote
  • Robert La Follette

    Robert La Follette

    He was governor of Wisconsin, and in Senate, and the leader and presidental candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action.