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Robert La Follete was a Republican Politician who spoke against corrupt politics and the influence of business interests.
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Eugene V. Debs was a social and labor reform leader, presiding over the American Railway Union after sucessfully uniting railroad workers into the first industrial union in the U.S and for his great reform acts he was a 5 time candidate for the Socialist Party of America to be President of the U.S.
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Ida Tarbell, a muckracker, is credited for breaking up the Standar Oil Company's Monopoly by writing The History of the Standard Oil Company, a 19-part series on the that uncovered scandelous business between the oil and railroad company.
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John Dewey was an educater who, along with other colleagues, founded The New School for Social Reform in 1919 that emphasized the intellectual discussion on the arts and social sciences.
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Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and activist who wrote on racial issues and politics in the south and started and anti-lynching campain and other civil rights organizations.
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Lincoln Steffens was the author of The Shame of Cities, which exposed nefarious dealings between municipal government and big business.
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The Women's Christian Temperance Union grew out of the "Women's Crusade" and were lead to non-violent protest against the dangers of alcohol, praying in saloons and demanding the sale of liquor.
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The Interstate Commerce act was made to regulate the railroad industry and required the railroad rates to establish a "rasonable and just"pricing standard and to publicly publish their rates.
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The NAWSA was a merger btween the National Women's Sufferage Association and the American Women Sufferage Association to work for the sufferage of women in the U.S.
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How the Other Half Lives is publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis depicting the living conditions in New York City slums.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first Federal act that prohibit monopolistic business practices and was named after Senator John Sherman.
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The Anti-Saloon League was an organization that sought to close down saloons and other alcoholic establishments because they believed that America was forgetting their religious values as they moved to urban areas and were sinning when they consumed alcohol.
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The Square Deal Policy was Theodore Roosevelt's approach to social problems and the individual that included his ideas on labour, citizenship, parenthood and Christian ethics. (Could not find approprate date.)
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Also Called the Coal Strike of 1902, the Anthracite Coal Strike was conducted by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania where miners asked for higher wages, shorter workdays, and better working conditions.
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The Department of Commerce and Labor was a bill created by Theodore Roosevelt to create to control the excess of big business that did not last very long.
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The Elkins Act of 1903 ended rebates to favored railroad customerr and amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. (Could not find appropriate date)
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The Jungle was a book written by Upton Sinclair that exposed the unsanitary and dangerous conditions in the meatpacking industry.
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The Pure Food and Drug act was passed tp prevent the sale or manufacturing of adultered, poisonous, misbranded, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and alcohol.
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The Meat Inspection Act prohibited the sale of adultered livestock and insured that livestock was slaughtered and processed sanitarily.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a fire that massacred almost 150 people in New York City at the Triangle Factory and caused the government to reform fire safety for businesses.
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The 17th amendment stated that each state would have 2 representatives in the United States Senate that would be elected by the people of that state.
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The Underwood Tariff Act raised income tax to eliminate duties on manufactured goods and raw materials.
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The Federal Reserve Act was created by Congess to establish economic stability by creating the Central Bank, which was over monetary policy and gave Federal Reserve Banks the ability to print money to ensure economic stability.
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The Federal Trade Commission was created by Woodrow Wilson to protect consumers and ensure competitiveness in markets by enforcing consumer protection and antitrust laws.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act further clarified the Sherman Antitrust Act and added more substance to it by providing barriers to anti-competitiveness issues, such as price descrimination and price fixing.
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The 18th Amendment prohibited the sale, manufacturing, and transporting of alcoholic beverages.
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The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act was the first child labor bill put into place to regulate child labor by banning the sale of products made by companies with children employees under a certain age.
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The 19th Amendment granted woman's suffrage.
