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  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs

    as an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    a journalist that documented lynching in the us during the 1890's
  • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

    Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

    first mass organization among women devoted to social reform
  • John Dewey

    John Dewey

    an educational reformerwho published books about education
  • Margaret Sanger

    Margaret Sanger

    Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    a federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
  • Ida Tarbell

    Ida Tarbell

    she was one of the leading muckrakers and pioneered investigative journalism
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association

    National American Woman Suffrage Association

    was formed to work for women's suffrage in the United States
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    it prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts.
  • How the Other Half Lives

    How the Other Half Lives

    serves as basis for "muckrakers" and jounalism investigating deep into poverty and slums.
  • Anti-Saloon League

    Anti-Saloon League

    lobbied for prohibition in the us in the early 20th century
  • Square Deal Policy

    Square Deal Policy

    he Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
  • Lincoln Steffens

    Lincoln Steffens

    was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities.
  • Northern Securities Antitrust

    Northern Securities Antitrust

    The company was sued in 1902 under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by the Justice Department under President Theodore Roosevelt, one of the first anti-trust cases filed against corporate interests instead of labor
  • Anthracite Coal Strike

    Anthracite Coal Strike

    a strike that set Theodore roosevelt's big stick diplomacy to work.
  • Department of Commerce and Labor

    Department of Commerce and Labor

    which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business
  • Elkins Act

    Elkins Act

    The railroad companies were not permitted to offer rebates after this ammendment
  • Robert La Follette

    Robert La Follette

    vocal opposition of trusts, bossism, and world war 1
  • Meat Inspection Act

    Meat Inspection Act

    worked to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and sanitation stuff
  • The Jungle

    The Jungle

    published by upton sinclair, talked about the meatpackign and poverty
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    a key piece of progressive legislation, it was put into place so that people would be at least eating sanitary meat that was being processed.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city
  • Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

    Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

    It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states
  • Underwood Tariff

    Underwood Tariff

    also known as the states revenue act, lowered basic tariff rates from 25 to 40 percent, and re-imposed the federal income tax
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    created and established the federal reserve
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    topics like price discrimination, price fixing and unfair business practices
  • Federal Trade Commission

    Federal Trade Commission

    Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    wouldn't let people buy things from people who employed children
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    the prohibition of alchohol