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WCTU's primary purpose was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society. It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment.
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Federal law designed to regulate railroad industry, especially end monopolies. Required that rates be "reasonable" but gov't did not enact specific rates
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First law to limit monopolies and wanted to create fairer workforce competition and limit take overs in departments
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African American journalist who led an anti-lynching campaign in the late 1890s
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Was created to advocate for women's suffrage in the United States, by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Photographed by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
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Successful political group that forced prohibition into local and state elections. spearheaded single-issue pressure group strategy
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T. Roosevelt summoned both sides of WH who reached a compromise of 10% pay increase and a 9 hr work day. (sides threatend to use troops and seize)
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US federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates and the shippers that accepted these rebates.
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a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. It was created on February 14, 1903, during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt and ceased in 1913.
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muckracker who wrote and published expose on Standard Oil in McClure's in 1903
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Muckracker who exposed several corporations and political machines in his collection of works titled "Shame of the Cities" for McClure's magazine.
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Roosevelt's legal attack on the Northern Securities Company and was ruled by SCOTUS 5-4 to be a monopoly.
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Was designed to protect against mislabeling of foods and drugs
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US law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions
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Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a direct primary.
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T. Roosevelt's domestic policy with three "Big C's": Conserve natural reservation, control corporations, consumer protection
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146 garment workers died in a fire because the sweatshop owners locked doors to keep workers in and union organizers out. This led to shorter work weeks for women and minors, and the abolition of labor for those under the age of 14
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father of pragmatism which favored "learning by doing" ideas which were central in Progressive movement education beliefs.
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Was the Socialist party's presidential candidate in 1900 and 1912 but received only 96,000 votes, a total he raised to 400,000 in 1904.
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The Republicans were badly split in the 1912 election, so Roosevelt broke away forming his own Progressive Party. His loss led to the election of Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson, but he gained more third party votes than ever before.
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required US senators to be elected directly by voters. as opposed to state legislators
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reimposed federal tax on income and lowered basic tariff rates to 25%. Signed by POTUS Woodrow Wilson.
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This act created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal reserve Board as an attempt to provide the United States with a sound yet flexible currency.
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Forbids monopolies policies, made corps. responsible for antitrust violations, and supported unions
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Established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.
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Signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 addressed child labor by prohibiting the sale of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen but was declared unconstitutional in 1918
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Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1916; also established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Prohibition amendment which outlawed the use and sale of alcohol/alcholic beverages. (21st amendment in 1931 repeals)
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states that US citizens cannot be restricted the right to vote based on sex in federal and state elections; gave women the right to vote
