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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
one of the largest and most influential women's groups of the 19th century by expanding its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform and suffrage -
Interstate Commerce Act
federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
prohibited any "contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce." -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was formed on February 18, 1890 to work for women's suffrage in the United States -
How the Other Half Lives
a book by John Riis that told the public about the lives of the immigrants and those who live in the tenements -
Anti-Saloon League
leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century -
Sanger
Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States -
Ida Tarbell
was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism -
Lincoln Steffens
New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement -
John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. -
Robert La Follette
Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a direct primary. -
Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States -
Square Deal Policy
Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union -
Northern Securities Antitrust
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, who had essentially formed a monopoly, and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company -
Elkins Act
The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
United States Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business
United States Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business -
Pure Food and Drug Act
preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods -
Meat Inspection Act
is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired pro-consumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and drugs -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York, causing the death of 146 garment workers who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. It was the worst workplace disaster in New York City -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protege, incumbent President William Howard Taft -
Federal Reserve Act
created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system -
17th Amendment
established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states -
Underwood Tariff
re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates -
Federal Trade Commission
administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace -
Clayton Antitrust Act
the Clayton Act sought to prevent anti competitive practices in their incipience -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen -
18th Amendment
established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal -
19th Amendment
prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex
