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Started as a group to advocate for temperance, but later expanded to advocate for labor laws, prison reform, and suffrage.
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Law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry and break up monopolies. The act did not give the government the power to fix the certain rates.
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Law that opposes monopolies and prohibits contracts, combinations, or conspiracies in restricting trade.
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Advocated for women's right to vote on the basis that it would make them better wives and mothers.
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A novel by Jacob Riis which details the lives of lower class, especially immigrants
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Editor of a black newspaper called the Memphis Free Speech. Spent her life campaigning against lynching and Jim Crow Laws.
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League created to close down all saloons and laws. Part of the prohibition movement, they would later start to raid bars.
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Advocated pragmatism and encouraged Americans to question the practice of Laissez-Faire capitalism.
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One of the founders of the Socialist party, Eugene was a critic of business and a champion of labor
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Strike from coal miners against union leaders. Led to Roosevelt's Square Deal.
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Wrote the History of the Standard Oil Company which was an example of muckraking during the Progressive Era. Helped to expose the corruption in big business.
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A compromise between coal miners and union leaders where the coal miners would continue working, and in return, wages would increase and hours would shorten.
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Allowed the ICC to have greater authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favored customers
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Roosevelt created to deal with domestic, economic affairs
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Wrote The Shame of the Cities which described the corrupt deals in big-city politics.
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A combination of railroads that Roosevelt tried to break up during his various trust busts
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Forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled foods and drugs.
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In reaction to The Jungle, Congress made it so that federal inspectors had to visit meatpacking plants to ensure that they met minimum standards of sanitation
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Written by Upton Sinclair, the book exposes the poor conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry
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Industrial fire that killed 146 workers. Brought attention to unsafe working conditions and needs for regulations.
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Party started by Roosevelt when be broke away from the Republican Party
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Direct election of U.S. senators
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Wilson passed the Underwood Tariff which lowered tariffs for the first time in over 50 years.
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Furthered the actions of the Sherman Antitrust Act, but also stated that workers unions were not considered trusts
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Created the central banking system of America which made it so that Americans use Federal Reserve Notes
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Regulatory agency that investigates and takes action against any "unfair trade practice" in ever industry except banking and transportation
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Governor from Wisconsin who created the direct primary to end corruption in politics
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Legislation act which prohibited the sale of goods produced by factories that used child labor under different circumstances
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Advocate for the use of birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S., and also helped create acceptance on the use of birth control
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Gave women the right to vote
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Made the production, selling, or transport of alcohol illegal
