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| 165573199 | Samuel M. Jones | Golden Rule; minimum wage; opened kindergartens; along with other reform mayor Tom Johnson | |
| 165573200 | Tom L. Johnson | Devoted himself to the cause of tax reform and three-cent trolley fares for the people of Cleveland. Fought valiantly, but without success. | |
| 165573201 | Charles Evans Hughes | He was a Republican governor of New York who was a reformer. He was later a supreme court justice who ran for President against Woodrow Wilson in 1916. | |
| 165573202 | Hiram Johnson | fought for railroad regulation in California helped to break the dominant grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics in 1910 | |
| 165573203 | Theodore Roosevelt | 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War | |
| 165573204 | Square Deal | Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers | |
| 165573205 | Trust-Busting | government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws) | |
| 165573206 | Elkins Act | (1903) gave the Interstate Commerce Commission more power to control railroads from giving preferences to certain customers | |
| 165573207 | Hepburn Act | This 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods. | |
| 165573208 | Upton Sinclair | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen. | |
| 165573209 | Pure Food and Drug Act | the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs | |
| 165573210 | Meat Inspection Act | Law that authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to order meat inspections and condemn any meat product found unfit for human consumption. | |
| 165573211 | Conservation | the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources | |
| 165573212 | Newlands Reclamation Act | 1902 act authorizing federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects, mainly in the dry Western states | |
| 165573213 | Gifford Pinchot | head of the U.S. Forest Servic under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them | |
| 165573214 | William Howard Taft | 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930) | |
| 165573215 | Mann-Elkins act | (WT) 1910, gave right to prevent new rates if challenged in courts, communication now regulate directly by the Interstate Commerce Commission | |
| 165573216 | 16th Amendment | Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income. | |
| 165573217 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff | Signed by Taft in March of 1909 in contrast to campaign promises. Was supposed to lower tariff rates but a senator from Rhode Island put revisions that raised tariffs. This split the Repulican party into progressives (lower tariff) and conservatives (high tariff). | |
| 165573218 | Joseph Cannon | Speaker of the House who helped pass the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act | |
| 165573219 | Socialist Party of America | This party was dedicated to the welfare of the working class. The platform called for more radical reforms such as public ownership of the RRs, utilities, and even of major industries such as oil and steel. | |
| 165573220 | Eugene V. Debs | He was the president and the organizer of the American Railway Union. He organized the Pullman Strike and helped organized the Social Democratic party. | |
| 165573221 | Bull Moose Party | The Republicans were badly split in the 1912 election, so Roosevelt broke away forming his own Progressive Party | |
| 165573222 | New Nationalism | Roosevelt's progressive political policy that favored heavy government intervention in order to assure social justice | |
| 165573223 | New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy that, promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters. | |
| 165573224 | Underwood Tariff (1913) | a graduated income tax under the 16th amendment that applied solely to corporations and the tiny fraction of Americans who earned more than $4000 a year | |
| 165573225 | Federal Reserve Act (1914) | An act passed in 1914 that legalized a US financial system that involved 12 federally operated district banks that were supervised by the Federal Reserve Board | |
| 165573226 | Federal Reserve Board | The governing board of the country's central bank, which executes monetary policy by manipulating the supply of funds that member banks can lend. | |
| 165573227 | Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) | New antitrust legislation constructed to remedy deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act, namely, it's effectiveness against labor unions | |
| 165573228 | Federal Trade Commission | an independent agency of the United States fedeal government that maintains fair and free competition | |
| 165573229 | Federal Farm Loan Act (1916) | Congressional measure making credit available to farmers at low rates of interest | |
| 165573230 | Urban Migration | Migration of blacks to the North between 1910 and 1930 because of deteriorating race relations in the South and more job opportunities in the North. | |
| 165573231 | Niagara Movement | in 1905 Dubois started this movement at Niagara Falls, and four years later joined with white progressives sympathetic to their cause to form NAACP, the new organization later led to the drive for equal rights. | |
| 165573232 | Booker T. Washington | Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." | |
| 165573233 | W. E. B. Du Bois | demanded complete equality for Blacks and helped find the NAACP | |
| 165573234 | N.A.A.C.P. | Worked to bring racial inequality to the attention of white Americans | |
| 165573235 | National Urban League | an interracial organization formed in 1910 to help solve social problems facing African Americans who lived in the cities | |
| 165573236 | Carrie Chapman Catt | president of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson's administration | |
| 165573237 | National American Women's Suffrage Association | Pro-suffrage organization formed by the joining of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. | |
| 165573238 | Alice Paul | head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking. | |
| 165573239 | National Women's Party | a women's organization founded in 1916 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the United States, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men | |
| 165573240 | 19th Amendment | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. | |
| 165573241 | League of Women Voters | Run by Carrie Chapman Catt and made to educate women of public issues and candidates running for office |
