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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." -
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act was a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives is a book by Jacob Riis about the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City. -
The National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was created to work for women's suffrage in the United States. -
The Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was a former slave who became a journalist and launched a virtual one-woman crusade against the vicious practice of lynching. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs was an 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 who formed the American Railway Union. -
The Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States. -
John Dewey
John Dewey was a famous American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer who was the founder of functional psychology and one of the earliest developers of philosophy of pragmatism. -
President Roosevelt's Square Deal Policy
Presidnet Roosevelt's Square Deal Policy was his domestic policy he adopted in which he stated he would not favor any group of Americans but to be fair to all -
The Anthracite Coal Strike
The Anthracite Coal Strike was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields, where the miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell was an American journalist best known for her pioneering investigative reporting that led to the breakup of the Standard Oil Company’s monopoly. -
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens began his career as a journalist at the New York Evening Post, and eventually became an editor of McClure's magazine, where he became part of a celebrated muckraking trio with Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker. -
The Department of Commerce and Labor
The Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. -
The Elkins Act
The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
The Northern Securities Antitrust
The Northern Securities Antitrust was the first example of Roosevelt’s use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly -
The Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act prevented adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair in order to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act prevented he manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. -
Robert La Follette
Robert La Follette was a Republican policitian, and named the leader of the Progressive Moment. -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York caught fire and killed 145 workers. The deaths brought attention to the horrible working conditions in the factories -
Progressive Party
Progressive Party was given the nickname Bull Moose by Roosevelt. The Progressive Party was created by Roosevelt, who was angry because the Republican Party stuck with Taft. -
The 17th Amendment
The 17th Ammendment states that two Senators from each state are elected by the people of the state, and serve for six years; each Senator shall have one vote. -
The Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States -
The Underwood Tariff
The Underwood Tariff was put in place to reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials. -
The Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission is a fedral agency that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace, and is still in place today. -
The Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed as an amendment to clarify and supplement the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Keating-Owen Labor Act
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act limited the working hours of children and forbade the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor. -
The 18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages. -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. -
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League as a part of an education and publicity campaign to gain support for birth control
