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18th Amendment
manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. -
19th amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex -
Robert La Follette
Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. was an American Republican and Progressive politician. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World -
Ida Tarbell
American teacher, author and journalist. She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism. -
John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. -
Ida B. Wells
was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Lincoln Steffens
New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. -
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
active temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. -
Interstate Commerce Act
required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was an organization formed on February 18, 1890 to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. -
How the other half lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, -
Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
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 -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. -
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 -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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
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 -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. -
Square Deal Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
he deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
Progressive Party
The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party -
Federal Reserve Act
is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System -
Underwood Tariff
re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% -
Clayton Antitrust Act
the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
Federal Trade Commission
a federal agency, established in 1914, that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
used the government's ability to regulate interstate commerce to regulate child labor.
