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This document created an Interstate Commerce Comission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry.
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This was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
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This group was created to work for women's suffrage. It also played a pivital role in passing the 19th amendment.
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This was the first federal act that did not allow monopolistic business practice.
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This was the first mass orginazation among women devoted to socal reform.
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An orginization lobbying for prohibition in the United States.
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Eugene V. Debs, American Union leader, became a member of the Social Democracy of America in 1897.
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A strike by the United Mine Workers of America to ask for higher wages, shorter hours, and recognition of their union.
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This was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business.
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This authorized the ICC to impose fines on railroads that offered rebates, and shippers who offered these rebates.
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An expose of the Standard Oil Company at this time run by Rockefeller.
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A case heard by the suprme court against railroad companies who formed a monopoly.
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A series of articles originally written for a magazine but made into a book that reported workings of political corruption.
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A domestic program formed by Roosevelt to enforce these three basic ideas; conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
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This novel was written to portray the harsh lives and living conditions of immigrants.
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This was the first in a series of laws whose main purpose was to ban foreign and mislabled food and drug products.
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A United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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This is an African-American civil rights orginization madde to ensure the rigths of all people and eliminate racial discrimination. Wells was a co-founder of this group.
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Margaret Sanger actively challenged federal and state Comstock laws to bring birth control information and contraceptive devices to women.
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This was a fire of a factory killing many and making it the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history.
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This was an American Political Party formed by Roosevelt after a split republican party between him Taft.
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This act re-imposed the federal income tax andlowered basic tariff rates.
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This was an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes .
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FTC was an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act whose purpose was to promote consumer protection and eliminate anticompetitive business practices.
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This was a part of the US antitrust law wtih the goal of adding furhter substance and stablility to the law.
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This Amendment established the popular election of United States senators by the people.
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This book shared his thoughts and findings on progressive education.
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This act limited children labor hours and forbade sale of goods made by them between states.
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This amendment effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.
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This amendment prohibited any citizen from being denied the right to vote based on gender.
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Robert La Follette runs for President as nominee of his own progressive party.
