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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point. -
Interstate Commerce Act
targeted unfair practices in the railroad industry by attempting to eliminate discrimination against small markets, -
Lincol Steffens
New York reporter who later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. -
How the Other Half Lives
tudies among the Tenements of New York shown to the general public mainly women -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
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. -
Sheman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. -
Ida B. Wells
The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition. -
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League is the nonpartisan, single-issue interest group in modern American politics. -
John Dewey
changed approaches to teaching and learning. -
The Square Deal
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. -
Ida Tarbell
exposed Standard’s often questionable practices -
Anthracite Coal Strike
was an effort by the United Mine Workers to get higher wages -
Elkins Act
impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
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. -
Meat Inspection Act
United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food -
The Jungle
novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago -
Pure Food and Drug Act
main purpose was to ban traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products. -
17th Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
Underwood Tariff Act
reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
a law that prevented children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
