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Ida B. Wells
An African-American journalist who led an Anti-Lynching crusade after being thrown out of a train for not moving cars on a train. She stood for the Civil Rights Movement and inspired many others to stand up against the injustices toward blacks. -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
A major group that stood for women believing in social reform, progressive ideals, and were against the use of alcohol. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Designed to regulate monopolistic parts of the railroad industry, stating to have "reasonable and just" rates for everyone. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The merging of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) created this major corp. adovcating women's rights. It's leaders pushed the cause for women's suffrage and in 1920 the 19th Amendment is finally ratified. -
Jacob A. Riis- "How the Other Half Lives"
A book meant to expose the imense corruption of factories and inadequate living conditions of city slums. It highlighted "muckrackers" and company trusts that swindled americans into being broke and poverish. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act was based on the Consitutional power to regulate interstate commerce and prohibited the use of trusts and other monopolistic buisness ventures. -
Anti-Saloon League
Established to reinstitute moral standard by ridding America from the evils of Alcohol, or at least promote safe usage. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Anthracite was rich in carbon and ideal for industrial use. Miners of this great resource were soon to be swindled and denied rights, as well as lower wages, and could not recieve short work hours. Eventually the workers went on strike until Roosevelt and the Anthracite-Coal Commission came up with a fair deal, a square deal. -
Square Deal Policy
Roosevelt institutes this policy of: control of the corporations, consumer protection, and the conservation of the United States' natural resources, in hopes that it will create peaceful and fair relations between big buisness and the gorvernment. He embraces the Progressive spirit during this time. -
Lincoln Steffens- "The Shame of the Cities"
An American writer who published a series of articles, in which he exposed the unfair and unlawful secret alliances formed between big corporations and the government. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
A cabinet office in which oversaw the engagements of big buisness' interstate commerce and broken monopoly trusts within corporations. -
Elkins Act
Issued to destroy the use of railroad rebates, unfair refunds to shipperd, and upheld the beliefs of the Interstate Commerce Commison (Act) to insure fair buisness. -
Ida Tarbell
She was a McClure’s magazine journalist who researched and uncovered unfair practices within the Standard Oil Co. of John D. Rockefeller. Her writings led to the eventual contract breaking of this company by the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
An eventual Supreme Court Case that was the largest example of Roosevelt's anti-trust legislation, by dismantling a corurpt railroad monopoly using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. -
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
This novel told the horrifying truth of Amerca's meat packing industry, as well as the deadly struggles of everyday life for the average industrial worker. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This was to ensure American's knew what they were actually eating, prevent food posioning, mistreatment of drugs, and ensure trusts with European investors. -
Meat Inspection Act
Insured prepared meats would be subjected to federal inspections before being canned and shipped to other states. This increased sanitation and health rates by being forced to sell good quality products that contain minimal bacteria and disease. -
Eugene V. Debs
A socialist leader who ran for the Presidency and was involved in numerous strikes such as the strike on the Pullman Company of Chicago. He was against concentrated and heavy corporate power, wanting to erect the overwhelming railraod and factory corporations. -
Robert La Follette
Leader of the National Progressive Republican League, opposed to high tariffs, praising conservation, and regulating railroad policies .La Follete was cheered to run for presdiency, but when he attacked TR he lost most of his respect and support. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A NYC company building went up in flames and neglected safety features cost over 146 workers, mainly women, their lives. This lead to major improvements with child labor laws and better safety routes and conditions in the workplace -
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Party of people who were against the entrenched conservatism of Republicans, but loved the vigor and strength that Roosevelt had. They wante to live for the people and stand up for justice at all costs...."it takes a lot to kill a bull-moose" -
17th Amendment
Passed to allow direct election for U.S. Senators inorder to avoid corruption found when using a secret ballod system.It also made sure that American voters did not lose their rights as voters. -
Underwood Tariff
Proposed by Oscar W. Underwood of the Alabama Senate, this enabled a large increase of items added to the free of tax list and provided for the reinstitution of federal income tax. -
Federal Reserve Act
Financial crisis lead to the creation of this stable, central bank system in which up to 12 Federal Reserve Buildings regualte the eb and flow of money throughout the country. This created stablilty and debt help to many who could previously never recieve it. -
Margaret Sanger
An early feminists, who worked to educate young women with sex education and advocated birth control and contraceptives. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Served as a clarification of the Sherman Antitrust Act, prohibiting rebates, intercorporate stock holding, exclusive sales contracts, and many other corrupt buisness ventures. This Act became the basis for many large court suits against big buisnesses and hepled them win back what had been taken from them. -
Federal Trade Commission
Provides relief and prevention of anticompetitive buisness practices, as well as promote consumer protection in the ways of commerce. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act limited the strenuous amount of hours previously required of children, and forbade the selling of child-made products on the interstate level. -
18th Amendment
It prohibited the selling or drinking of alcohol, but it actually caused a major increase in misusage and illegal sales. -
John Dewey
A philosopher, writer and educational reformist who founded the New School for Social Research and wrote numberous books that changed the principles of learning. -
19th Amendment
After years and years of fighting for suffrage, this amendment finally guarenteed all American women the right to vote. It was a major turning point for women to be looked upon as truly equal to men. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
They contructed dams to prevent floods and aimed to determine the amount of money needed to produce electricity and how to make consumer rates reasonable. -
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (Indian New Deal)
This act gave Indians more of a self-government by taking our federal government out of the equation. We promoted and encouraged them to embrace their cultures and traditions, evem though we had said the opposite for the past decade, -
The Social Security Act of 1935
Provides federal benefits for the elderly, crippled, and blind. This was done through taxing employees and employeers to create pensions and insurance for those in need. -
The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936
To promote conservation, this act paid farmers to plant soil-conserving agriculture such as soybeans. It also promoted levaing the soil alone to reabsorb and retain nutrients to make more fertile lands for coming years.
