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Robert La Follette
He was a politician and ran for president -
Eugene v. Debs
He became one of the best known socialists in the world -
Ida Tarbell
Writer of the History of the Standard oil company and was a Muckraker -
John Dewey
One of the foundrs of functional psychology -
Ida B Wells
She is one of the first to start the civil rights movements and also a supporter of womens rights. -
Lincoln Steffens
Wrote The Shame of the Cities and investigated corruption in the government. -
Womens Christian Temperance Movement
Tried to reform using the laws of Christianity and played a big part in the temperence movement -
Margaret Sanger
She popularised the term birth control and started what we now know as planned parenthood -
interstate commerce act
Made industry price including railroad fair and just -
Sherman anti-trust act
made the government oppose to monoplies -
How the other half lives
A photo journal on the New York City slums in the 1880s -
National American Womens Suffrages Association
Was the merger of two other womens rights groups. -
Anti Saloon League
Their main goal was to start prohibition in the 20th century -
Square deal policy
Roosevelts plan to control companies, the enviroment, and consumer protection -
Anthracite coal strike
Miners went on strike asking for higher wages and shorter work days. -
Elkins act
Authorised th ICC to offer fines on railroads that offered rebates -
Department of commerce and labor
cabinet in the governemtnand controlled big business -
nothern securities antitrust
dissolved the northern security company and ended the monoply -
Pure food and drug act
Allowed the government to inspect food manufacturers and led to the food and drug administration. -
Meat inspection act
Prevents unfit meat to be sold to the American people -
The Jungle
Tole about the harsh conditions immigrants lived in while in the cities. -
Triangle shirtwaste fire
The largest industrial disastor which killed 146 people. The aftermath was better workplace safety -
progressive (bull moose) party
A political party created by Theodoore Roosevelt -
17th amendment
Stated that the senate will be comprised of two senates from each state and they will serve a term of six years. -
Underwood tarrif
It reimposed federal income tax and lowered tarffs -
Federal reserve act
This act created and established the federal reserve -
federal trade commision
Its main goal is consumer protection and to remove anticompetitive business practices. -
Clayton Antitrust act
Added on to the Sherman anti trust act and stopped monoplies -
Keating Owen child labor act
Was the first set of laws that restricted child labor -
18th amendment
This amendment established prohibition -
19th amendment
made it illegal to deny someone the right to vote based on their sex.
