Unit 7 Part 2

By Lizzy B
  • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Founded

    Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Founded

    Urged people to become more temperate and religious
  • Interstate Commerce Act Passed

    Interstate Commerce Act Passed

    This was the first instance of federal regulation; the railroads were regulated
  • Sherman Antitrust Act Passed

    Sherman Antitrust Act Passed

    This act guaranteed that the US government would oppose monopolies or policies "in the restraint of trade or commerce"
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association Founded

    National American Woman Suffrage Association Founded

    It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association
  • How the Other Half Lives Published

    How the Other Half Lives Published

    Details conditions of New York slums
  • Anti-Saloon League Founded

    Anti-Saloon League Founded

    This was a large anti-alcohol movement
  • Square Deal Policy

    Square Deal Policy

    Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of big businesses, and protection of natural resources
  • Robert La Follette

    Robert La Follette

    Supported reform legislation while in office
  • Anthracite Coal Strike Begins

    Anthracite Coal Strike Begins

    This was the first strike that the president responded to with non-militant force. Kinda took these guys a while to be civil, huh?
  • Elkins Act

    Elkins Act

    Amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act; imposed heavy fines on railroads that had rebates
  • Department of Commerce and Labor Founded

    Department of Commerce and Labor Founded

    Created to control excesses of big businesses; it did not last long
  • Ida Tarbell Publishes The History Of Standard Oil Company

    Ida Tarbell Publishes The History Of Standard Oil Company

    This book detailed the unfair practices of the company
  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs

    One of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World
  • Pure Food and Drug Act	Passed

    Pure Food and Drug Act Passed

    Prevented the sale of poisonous, deleterious, adulterated or otherwise unsafe foods, drugs, medicines, or liquors.
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food
  • The Jungle Is Published

    The Jungle Is Published

    This book details the horrible conditions of factories and specifically the meat industry
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    A massive fire that killed 146 workers because the owners had locked the fire exits
  • 17th Amendment Passed

    17th Amendment Passed

    Allowed for the free election of Senators by the people; there would also be 2 senators for each state
  • Bull Moose Party Created

    Bull Moose Party Created

    A progressive party founded by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Underwood Tariff

    Underwood Tariff

    Re-imposed federal income tax
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Created the Federal Reserve System
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    The Clayton Act specified particular prohibited conduct, the three-level enforcement scheme, the exemptions, and the remedial measures.
  • Federal Trade Commission Founded

    Federal Trade Commission Founded

    Administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation
  • Margaret Sanger Starts The First Birth Control Clinic

    Margaret Sanger Starts The First Birth Control Clinic

    A big step in the reproductive movement
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Prohibited sale of goods from companies that employed children under 14 and mines that employed children under 16
  • 18th Amendment Passed

    18th Amendment Passed

    Prohibited sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol
  • 19th Amendment Passed

    19th Amendment Passed

    Women FINALLY get the right to vote