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APUSH - Unit 7 (1890-1945) - Part 2 (Progressive Era)

  • The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

    The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
    The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
  • The Interstate Commerce Act

    The Interstate Commerce Act
    The Interstate Commerce Act was a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
  • The National American Woman Suffrage Association

    The National American Woman Suffrage Association
    The National American Woman Suffrage Association was created to work for women's suffrage in the United States.
  • How the Other Half Lives

    How the Other Half Lives
    How the Other Half Lives is a book by Jacob Riis about the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.
  • The Sherman Antitrust Act

    The Sherman Antitrust Act
    The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells
    Ida B. Wells was a former slave who became a journalist and launched a virtual one-woman crusade against the vicious practice of lynching
  • The Anti-Saloon League

    The Anti-Saloon League
    The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States.
  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene V. Debs was an 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 who formed the American Railway Union.
  • John Dewey

    John Dewey
    John Dewey was a famous American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer who was the founder of functional psychology and one of the earliest developers of philosophy of pragmatism.
  • Square Deal Policy

    Square Deal Policy
    Presidnet Roosevelt's Square Deal Policy was his domestic policy he adopted in which he stated he would not favor any group of Americans but to be fair to all
  • The Anthracite Coal Strike

    The Anthracite Coal Strike
    The Anthracite Coal Strike was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields, where the miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union
  • Ida Tarbell

    Ida Tarbell
    Ida Tarbell was an American journalist best known for her pioneering investigative reporting that led to the breakup of the Standard Oil Company’s monopoly.
  • Lincoln Steffens

    Lincoln Steffens
    Lincoln Steffens began his career as a journalist at the New York Evening Post, and eventually became an editor of McClure's magazine, where he became part of a celebrated muckraking trio with Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker.
  • The Department of Commerce and Labor

    The Department of Commerce and Labor
    The 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 Elkins Ac

    The Elkins Ac
    The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
  • The Northern Securities Antitrust

    The Northern Securities Antitrust
    The Northern Securities Antitrust was the first example of Roosevelt’s use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly
  • the jungle

    the jungle
    The Jungle is a novel written by Upton SInclair in order to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
  • The Pure Food and Drug Act

    The Pure Food and Drug Act
    The Pure Food and Drug Act prevented he manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.
  • The Meat Inspection Act

    The Meat Inspection Act
    The Meat Inspection Act prevented adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
  • Robert La Follette

    Robert La Follette
    Robert La Follette was a Republican policitian, and named the leader of the Progressive Moment.
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York caught fire and killed 145 workers. The deaths brought attention to the horrible working conditions in te factories
  • Progressive Party

    Progressive Party
    Progressive Party was given the nickname Bull Moose by Roosevlet. The Progressive Party was created by Roosevelt, who was angry because the Republican Party stuck with Tatf.
  • The 17th Ammendment

    The 17th Ammendment
    The 17th Ammendment states that two Senators from each state are elected by the people of the state, and serve for six years; each Senator shall have one vote.
  • The Underwood Tariff

    The Underwood Tariff
    The Underwood Tariff was put in place to reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials.
  • The Federal Reserve Act

    The Federal Reserve Act
    The Federal Reserve Act created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States
  • The Federal Trade Commission

    The Federal Trade Commission
    The Federal Trade Commission is a fedral agency that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace, and is still in place today.
  • The Clayton Antitrust Act

    The Clayton Antitrust Act
    The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed as an ammendment to clarify and supplement the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
  • The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
    The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act limited the working hours of children and forbade the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor.
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment
    The 18th Ammendment prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    The 19th Ammendment granted women the right to vote.
  • Margaret Sanger

    Margaret Sanger
    Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League as a part of an education and publicity campaign to gain support for birth control