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Period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America that spanned the 1890s to World War I. Social reformers were primarily middle-class citizens who targeted political machines and their bosses. -
a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
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U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. -
the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition. -
A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners striked for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. -
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. The History of the Standard Oil Company is credited with hastening the breakup of Standard Oil, which came about in 1911, when the Supreme Court of the United States found the company to be violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an expose of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. -
an American law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions. -
the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. It was passed by Congress in 1909 -
it allows the governor or executive authority of each state. -
declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal. -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers who exposed corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications.