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organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point.
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targeted unfair practices in the railroad industry by attempting to eliminate discrimination against small markets,
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New York reporter who later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities.
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tudies among the Tenements of New York shown to the general public mainly women
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Its strategy was to push for suffrage at the state level, believing that state-by-state support would eventually force the federal government to pass the amendment.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition.
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Anti-Saloon League is the nonpartisan, single-issue interest group in modern American politics.
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changed approaches to teaching and learning.
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helped the middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor.
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exposed Standard’s often questionable practices
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was an effort by the United Mine Workers to get higher wages
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impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
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short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business.
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The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly, and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company.
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United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food
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novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago
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main purpose was to ban traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products.
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The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states.
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reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials.
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a law that prevented children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily.
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The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
