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Combated the influence of alcohol on families and society.
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Was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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Published by Jacob Riis, it documented the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
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Backed by Pres. Roosevelt, it outlawed monopolistic business practices, particularly those of the Northern Security Company.
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Formed to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the U.S.
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Black journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade..
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Promoted National Prohibition in the U.S.
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Socialist party's founder and presidential candidate for five terms.
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Formulated progressive education with "learning by doing" principles.
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Established a strong personal following as the governor who won the passage of the "Wisconsin Idea" -- a series of progressive measures that included a direct primary tax, tax reform, and state regulatory commissions.
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Policy based on three ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources.
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Coal miners were granted a 10% wage increase and hour reductions in working days.
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Unmasked the corrupt alliance between big businesses and municipal government with "The Shame of the Cities."
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The Interstate Commerce Commission was granted greater authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favored customers.
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Short-lived Cabinet department that was concerned with controlling the excesses of big businesses.
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Muckraker who wrote a serious about The History of the Standard Oil Company. Set a standard for the deluge of muckraking that followed.
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In Northern Securities Co. v. United States, the Supreme Court held that a holding company formed to create a railroad monopoly violated the Sherman Antitrust Law.
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Upton Sinclair book that described in horrifying detail the conditions in the Chicago stockyards and meatpacking industry.
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Forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled food and drugs.
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Provided that federal inspectors visit meatpacking plans.
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Opened the nation's eyes to poor working conditions.
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Formally the Progressive Party, it was a dissident political faction that nominated Theodore Roosevelt as its pres. candidate.
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Required that all U.S. senators be elected by popular vote.
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Substantially lowered tariffs for the first time in 50 years.
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Provided the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
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Strengthened the provisions for the Sherman Antitrust Act for breaking monopolies.
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Took action against any "unfair trade practice" in every industry except banking and transportation.
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Advocated birth-control education, which eventually became Planned Parenthood.
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Sought to prohibit the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under 14.
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Imposed the federal prohibition of alcohol.
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Extended the right to vote to women.
