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The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was created during this year and they wanted more rights for women.
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The Interstate Commerce Act was set in place to regulate the railroad industry, mostly the monoploies.
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The National American Woman Suffrage Association wa created to merge the NWSA and the AWSA. Their goal was to get more women rights.
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This was the first act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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This was a book written by Jacob Riis that documented the living conditions of people in the New York slums.
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She lead a protest against the lynching of three respected black businessmen in Memphis. She fled to the north and preserved her campaign there.
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This League was all about getting rid of alcohol. They wanted to enforce the laws that already existed and they wanted to create even more.
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He was a Republican leader that took control of the railways from the companies and gave it back to the people.
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This was a strike where the miners wanted higher wages, shorter workdays, and recognition for their union. The United Mine Workers of America were the ones that went on strike.
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Lincoln Steffens launached a series of of articles titled "The Shame of the Cities." He unmasked the corrupt alliances between businesses and governments.
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This department was hort-lived but it was in charge of controlling the excess of large businesses.
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The Square Deal Policy was created by Theodore Roosevelt. It is referred to as the 3 C's. The 3 C's were: control of the corpoations, consumer protection, and conservative of natural resources.
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This act allowed for heavy fines on the railroads.
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In 1904 the Northern Securites Company was disolved by the Supreme Court. It was a railroad trust before it was dissolved.
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In this year she earned a reputation because she published scathing history of the Standard OIl Company.
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This book was written by Upton Sinclair to show the harsh living conditions of people in Chicago.
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This was an act that prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded food and drug products.
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This is an act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food to protect us from eating unsanitary meat products.
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John Dewey set forth the principals of "learning by doing" that formed the foundation of progressive education.
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This was one of the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York, and one of the deadliest in US history. Many people died because the doors were locked. This led to new saftey standards.
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This was an American political party that was created by President Theodore Roosevelt because there was a split in the Republican party.
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Debs ran against Woodrow Wilson and William Taft. He ran for the soialist party and gained almost one million votes.
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This amendment led to peoeple being able to wote for their own senators.
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This was a tariff act that imposed the federal income tax and lowered the basic tariff rates.
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This was an act put in place to help create the federal reserve, the banking system of the US.
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This is an independent agency of the Federal government that was established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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This is an act passed to add more clarification to the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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This was an act that tried to help enforce child labor laws by not allowing the sales of certain items if they were produced in factories with kids under a certain age.
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The 18th Amendment prohibited the sale and production of alcohol illegal.
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This amendment prohibited states from discriminating voters by their gender. This means women can now vote.
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Margaret was a feminist, She led a movement for the use of contraceptives.
