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| 143976538 | Alice Paul | rose as a leader in the women's suffrage movement was a student in England for a while. Her and Lucy Burns took over the NAWSA committee that was working congressional passage of the federal suffrage amendment | 0 | |
| 143976539 | Anti-Saloon League | U.S. organization working for prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. Founded in 1893 as the Ohio Anti-Saloon League at Oberlin, Ohio, by representatives of temperance societies and evangelical Protestant churches, it came to wield great political influence. | 1 | |
| 143976540 | Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy | Cabinet members who had fought over conservation efforts and how much effort and money should be put into conserving national resources. Pinchot, head of the Forestry Department, accused Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, of abandoning federal conservation policy. Taft sided with Ballinger and fired Pinchot. | 2 | |
| 143976541 | Carrie Chapman Catt | fought for women's rights/suffrage, began her suffrage work as an organizer of clubs in 1887, she became one of the suffrage movement's most effective lecturers and organiers. Her work extended to Canada and Europe.She founded the National league of women's voters | 3 | |
| 143976542 | Carry A Nation | A prohibitionist. She believed that bars and other liquor-related businesses should be destroyed, and was known for attacking saloons herself with a hatchet. | 4 | |
| 143976543 | Clayton Antitrust Act | In 1914, Corrected the problems of the Sherman Antitrust Act; outlawed certain practices that restricted competition; unions on strike could no longer be considered violating the antitrust acts | 5 | |
| 143976544 | Federal Reserve Act | Sparked by the Panic of 1893 and 1907, the 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System, which issued paper money controlled by government banks. | 6 | |
| 143976545 | Florence Kelley | An advocate for improving the lives of women and children. (Social Welfare). She was appointed chief inspector of factories in Illinois. She helped win passage of the Illinois factory act in 1893 which prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours. | 7 | |
| 143976546 | Hepburn Act, 1906 | Proposal for railroad regulation enacted in 1906 that extended the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and gave it the power to set maximum freight rates. | 8 | |
| 143976547 | Herbert Croly | He wrote the The Promise of American Life (1909) where he called for an activist fed govn't of the kind Hamilton had advocated in the 1790s but one that would serve all citizens, not merely the capitalist class. | 9 | |
| 143976548 | IWW, Wobblies | Reached it's peak in 1923. The goal was to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class. Believed the AFL had failed at effectively organizing the United States working class by only organizing people on a trade, diving the people into groups. | 10 | |
| 143976549 | Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives | Danish immigrant, became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s, wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890 | 11 | |
| 143976550 | John Dewey | American philosopher and educator, he led the philosophical movement called Pragmatism. Influenced by evolution, he believed that only reason and knowledge could be used to solve problems. Wanted educational reforms. | 12 | |
| 143976551 | Lochner v New York, 1905 | Supreme Court case that ruled baking was not hazardous enough to warrant state interference in the workplace; supported the laissez faire economics and limited state regulation aimed at protecting workers | 13 | |
| 143976552 | Margaret Sanger | During the early 1900's, an advocate for birth control in the ghettos and poorer areas. She started Planned Parenthood and supplied birth control to poorer places. She was fiercely opposed for a long time before eventually gaining popularity. Her support for eugenics tarnished her, but still, she is thought to be one of the foremost woman's rights leaders of her time. | 14 | |
| 143976553 | Meat Inspection Act | Required strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created a program of federal meat inspection. It came about in 1906 as a result of president Roosevelt reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. | 15 | |
| 143976554 | Muller v Oregon, 1908 | a landmark decision in United States Supreme Court history, as it relates to both sex discrimination and labor laws. The case upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health. | 16 | |
| 143976555 | NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional | 17 | |
| 143976556 | Newlands Reclamation Act, 1902 | a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of the American West. It was authored by Representative Francis G. Newlands of Nevada. | 18 | |
| 143976557 | Niagara Movement | movement begun by Du Bois in 1905 that protested legal segregation, the exclusion of blacks from labor unions, and the curtailment of voting and other civil rights; failed to bring much change but led to NAACP | 19 | |
| 143976558 | Nineteenth Amendment | amendment of the United States Constitution that prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. | 20 | |
| 143976559 | Northern Securities Company case | [1904] The Supreme Court ruled against the Northern Securites Company which consisted of E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, and J. D. Rockefeller who had ultimately formed a monopoly in the railroad business. This case ended up being one of the first attacks on big business. | 21 | |
| 143976560 | Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA. | 22 | |
| 143976561 | Robert La Follette | progressive Republican governor of Wisconsin, member of the US House of Rep., and Presidential canidate of 1924. Led the way in regulating big business, a U.S. Senator and his goal was to drive corporations out of politics. He taxed railroad property as the same rate as other business property. He forbade railroads to issue free passes to state officials. | 23 | |
| 143976562 | Square Deal | TR's campaign slogan, expressed his beleif that the needs of workers, business, and consumers should be balanced and called for limiting power of trusts, promoting public health and safety and improving working conditions | 24 | |
| 143976563 | Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire | This was a fire that started in a shirtwaist factory that led to the death of many people working in the building. The working conditions were so poor, people did not have proper exits to escape the fire, leaving them to die. This incident helped the progressives by making their causes look good. | 25 | |
| 143976564 | Underwood Tariff | Revenue Act of 1913. re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%, well below the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. | 26 | |
| 143976565 | Upton Sinclair, The Jungle | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published 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.inspired Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) | 27 | |
| 143976566 | W.E.B. DuBois | black intellectual who called for the black community to demand immediate equality and was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). | 28 | |
| 143976567 | William Howard Taft | 27th president of the US, Theodore Roosevelt's hand-picked successor to the presidency; emphasized trust-busting and civil service reform; had a falling out with Roosevelt, splitting the Republican Party and allowing Woodrow Wilson to take the presidency in 1912.; promoted "dollar diplomacy" to expand foreign investments | 29 |
