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NAWSA
Leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt brings attention to woman’s suffrage. Carrie Chapman Catt was elected president in 1900. -
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The Progressive Era
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New York Tenement House Law
This law established model housing code for safety and sanitation.This law set the minimum size and window requirements, require one full bathroom for every 2 families, indoor plumbing, set up Tenement House Department to perform inspections. -
Child Labor Committee
They collected evidence to document conditions faced by child laborers. To prove the bad conditions they hired investigator/photographer Lewis Hine -
Niagara Movement
Promoted civil rights and equal economic opportunities -
The Jungle
This book exposed horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry. This also led to huge reforms in the food factory. -
Meat Inspection Act
This led to federal inspections of meat products. The sanitary standards at slaughterhouses and processing plants were inspected. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevented poisonous or spoiled products being sold -
NAACP
Means the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.The goals were to abolished segregation, establish equal justice, equal educational opportunities. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
A dropped cigarette on the eighth floor caused the fire and the workers inside were trapped. They were either unable to leave or had limited time/space to leave. -
17th Amendment
This amendment allowed direct election of senators. Progressives wanted increased role of citizens making government decisions. -
National Woman’s Party
They were nationally unpopular because they used a more radical approach. For example they used mass protests, marches, hunger strikes. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act banned any sale of goods produced by companies with children under a certain age. -
18th Amendment
This banned the “manufacture, sale, or transportation” of alcohol, but this did not make it illegal to drink. -
19th Amendment
The amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States. This amendment was finally ratified in 1920.
