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Robert La Follette
Progressive Wisconsin governor who attacked machine politics and pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a direct primary. Nicknamed Mr. Progressive! -
Eugene V. Debs
American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
John Dewey
Father of progressive education, was a philosopher who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education. -
Ida B. Wells
African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
This organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point. Advocates of prohibition in the United States found common cause with activists elsewhere, especially in Britain, and in the 1880s they founded the World Women's Christian Temperance Union, which sent missionaries around the world to spread the gospel of temperance -
Margaret Sanger
was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Established the federal government's right to oversee railroad activities & required railroads to public their rate schedules and file them with the government. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Prohibited any "contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce." -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
American women's rights organization was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890. This and other groups led to the nineteenth amendment: women's suffrage. -
How the Other Half Lives
A book by John Riis that told the public about the lives of the immigrants and those who live in the tenements. Jacob's article in Scribner's Magazine became a best-selling book. Riis's fame helped home press the city to improve living conditions for the poor and to build parks and schools. -
Anti-Saloon League
The most successful political action group that forced the prohibition issue into the forefront of state and local elections and pioneered the strategy of the single-issue pressure group. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Was 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 -
Lincoln Steffens
New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's titled "The Shame of the Cities" ; unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government -
Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Established by Roosevelt to deal with domestic economic affairs. Later split into two departments for better management. -
The Elkins Act
United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act. The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. The railroad companies were not permitted to offer rebates. Railroad corporations, their officers and employees were all made liable for discriminatory practices. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
A railroad monopoly formed by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill which went against the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
For 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
Passed in 1906 largely in reaction to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the law set strict standards of cleanliness in the meatpacking industry. -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired pro-consumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and drugs -
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
industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for safer and better working conditions for sweatshop workers in that industry. -
17th Amendent
Established that senators were to be elected directly. This law was intended to create a more democratic, fair society. -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
His platform called for tariff reform, stricter regulation of industrial combinations, women's suffrage, prohibition of child labor, and other reforms. -
Underwood Tariff
Congressional measure to provide the a substantial reduction of rates, and the first ever implementation of a graduated income tax on incomes $3000+ -
Federal Reserve Act
created 12 district banks that would lend $ at discount rates (could increase/decrease amt. of $ in circulation); loosen/tighten credit with nation's needs. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Was a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
Federal Trade Commission
Signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1914, outlaws unfair methods of competition and outlaws unfair acts or practices that affect commerce. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Ended child labor, and ended selling products made from child labor
It was signed by Woodrow Wilson
Also gave congress the responsibility of regulating interstate commerce. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
18th Amendment
Prohibited the non-medical sale of alcohol This amendment is the midpoint of a growing drive towards women's rights as well as showing the moral attitude of the era. -
Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell was a "Muckraker" who wrote in the magazine McClure's. As a younger woman, in 1904, Tarbell made her reputation by publishing the history of the Standard Oil Company, the "Mother of Trusts."
