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Carrie A. Nation
was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol in pre-Prohibition America. She is particularly noteworthy for promoting her viewpoint through vandalism. -
Jacob Riis
Was a danish social reformer. -
Robert LaFollette
was an American Republican and later a Progressive politician. -
Ida Tarbell
was an American teacher, author, and journalist . She was one of the muckrakers. -
Jane Addams/Hull House
was a pioneer settlement worker, founder Hull house in Chicago. -
Lincoln Steffens
Was a New York reporter who lanched a series of articles in Mclures. -
Upton Sinclair
American author and one-time canidiate govern of California. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act North
Is a landmark federal statute on United States competition law passed by Congress in 1890. -
US v EC Kight &Co, 1895
also known as the "Sugar Trust Case," was a United States Supreme Court case that limited the government's power to control monopolies. -
Muckraking
Journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines. -
Progressive/Bull Moose Party
He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the first incarnation of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much -
Anthracite Coal Strike
was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Northern Securities v U.S., 1904
was a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1903. The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies. -
Payne Aldrich Tariff, 1909
named for Representative Sereno E. Payne (R-NY) and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI), began in the United States House of Representatives as a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States.[1] It was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897. -
Mann Elkins Act
was a 1910 United States federal law that was among the Progressive era reforms.[1] The Act extended the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate the telecommunications industry, and designated telephone, telegraph and wireless companies as common carriers. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
was the deadlilest industrial disaster in the history of New York -
American Tobacco v U.S., 1911
was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that the combination in this case is one in restraint of trade and an attempt to monopolize the business of tobacco in interstate commerce. -
Election of 1912
was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912. The election was a rare four-way contest. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination. -
17th Amendment
the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. -
16th Amendment
the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. -
Federal Reserve Act
is an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollar) and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
18th Amendment (Volstead Act)
the United States Constitution established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States, which made the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal (but not the consumption). The separate Volstead Act set down methods of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited. -
19th Amendment
the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
