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National American Womans Sufferage Association
American Woman Suffrage Association worked from 1869 to 1890 to gain for women the right to vote. -
Womans Christian Temperance Movement
Temperance movement, movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor -
Interstate commerce act
federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, -
Sherman Antitrust act
first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices -
Ida B Wells
she led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. -
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
Anti Saloon League
lobbied for prohibition -
Eugene v Debs
He was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). -
Square Deal Policies
The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Robert La Follette
Robert M. La Follette was an American Republican and politician who is best known as a proponent of progressivism and a fierce opponent to corporate power. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Lincoln Steffens
His exposés of corruption in government and business helped build support for reform. -
Northern Securities Anti-Trust
Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197, was a 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. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
The 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. The United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor was the head of the department. -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. -
Ida Tarbell
"The History of the Standard Oil Company" exposed the oil buisness -
Pure food and drug act
first of the consumer protection laws put up -
The Jungle
The jungle was a book depicting the terrors and utter lack of sanitation for food packaging places. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) 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. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
It was a tragedy that opened the nation's eyes to poor working conditions in garment factories and other workplaces, and set in motion a historic era of labor reforms. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Bull Moose Party, formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912; the formal name and general objectives of the party were revived 12 years later. -
17th amendment
the 17th Amendment gives voters the power to directly elect their senators. It also states that the U.S. Senate includes two senators from each state, and that each senator has one vote in the Senate. Senators are elected for six-year terms -
Underwood Tariff
reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Clayton AntiTrust Act
"The Clayton Antitrust Act is an amendment passed by U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The Act focuses on topics such as price discrimination, price fixing, and unfair business practices." -
Federal Trade Commissions
Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. -
Margaret Sanger
founder of the birth control movement in the United States and an international leader in the field. -
18th amendement
The 18th Amendment called for the banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
19th amendment
provides men and women with equal voting rights. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Congress proposed a constitutional amendment prohibiting child labor, but the states did not ratify it. -
John Dewey
a leader of the progressive movement in education in the United States.
