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Woman's Christian Temperance Movement
This was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform through applied Christianity. -
Margaret Sanger
American leader of the movement that legalized birth control during the early 1900's -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act was designed to regulate the railroad industry. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was created to work for women's suffrage in the United States during this time period. -
How the Other Half Lives
This book documented the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This first legislation enacted by the United States Congress to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. -
Anti-Saloon League founded
The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the US during this time period. -
Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman strike
He 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. -
Ida B. Wells brought her anti-lynching campaign to the White House.
She was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Square Deal Policy
This was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic agenda.
1. Conservation of natural resources
2. Control of corporations
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Ida Tarbell published "The History of the Standard Oil Company"
Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist of the progressive era and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
This was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of Pennsylvania that was for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
This was a Cabinet department of the US government, which wanted to controll the excesses of big business. -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that imposed heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Lincoln Steffens
He was a New York reporter who published a book titled The Shame of the Cities. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
This was a case that the court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly, forcing them to dissolve the Northern Securities Company. -
Robert La Follette becomes a senentor
He was a republican politician known for clashing with other party leaders. -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair, who tried to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Meat Inspection Act
This act worked to prevent 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. -
John Dewey forms the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
He formed one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the US. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
One of the most dangerous industrial disasters in NY, and in the world. -
Underwood Tariff is passed
This tariff's purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to compensate for the loss of revenue, the act levied a graduated income tax -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft. -
17th Amendment
This allows regular voters to elect their Senators. -
Federal Reserve Act
The act of Congress that created the central banking system of the US and granted it the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes -
Federal Trade Commission is founded
Founded with the purpose to protect consumers and to ensure a strong competitive market. -
Clayton Antitrust Act enacted
An amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act was passed as a means to regulate youth labor. Child laborers under 16 years old could only work from 6am to 7pm -
18th Amendment takes effect
This ammendment banned of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
19th Amendment ratified
This granted American women the right to vote equal to men.
