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- Florence Kelly
- helped persuade to prohibit child labor and limit number of hours women were forced to work, founded national child labor committe
- new freedon
- Wilson's plan to reform America
- Ida Tarbell
- A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
- AFL
- a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
- the jungle
- This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
- prohibition
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- Carry Nation
- United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
- Robert M. La Follette
- pushed through Wisconsin Idea, regulated railroads and utilities
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Spoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, worked as a school principal and a reporter ., became head of the National American Woman Suffrage, an inspiried speaker and abrilliant organizer. Devised a detailed battle plan for fighting the war of suffrage.
- meat inspection act
- Law that authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to order meat inspections and condemn any meat product found unfit for human consumption.
- progressives
- reformers who worked to stop unfair practices by businesses and improve the way grovernment works
- 18th amendment
- banned the manufacturing of alcohol
- WEB Du Bois
- founder of NAACP believed in strikes(national association of the advancments of colored people)
- 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.
- how the other half lives
- a book by John Riis that told the public about the lives of the immigrants and those who live in the tenements
- NAWSA
- National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote
- Lincoln Steffens
- United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)
- pure food and drug act
- Federal statute that prohibits selling bad food and establishes meat inspection. Leads way for the Food and Drug Administration
- recall
- gave citizens a chance to remove an elected official from office before the person's term ended
- Jane Addams
- founded Hull House
- 19th amendment
- Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
- wisconsin idea
- La Follete in 1900 was elected and introduced a state wide program of prgressive reform this plan lowered railroad rates, the result was the increased railroad traffic which helped both railroad owners and customers.
- clayton antitrust act
- New antitrust legislation constructed to remedy deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act, namely, it's effectiveness against labor unions
- Alice Paul
- Marched with the suffragist in England , was jailed and went on a hunger strike all to help British woman win the vote. returned home to support the cause of the suffrage for American woman, Being impatient with NAWSA's state-by-state approach, she founded the Congressional Union later renamed the Woman's Party to bring direct pressure of the fed govn't to enact woman suffrage amendment. Picketed the White House 1917
- square deal
- Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers
- Frances Willard
- became leader of the WCTU. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. Also worked to outlaw saloons as step towards strengthening democracy.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- a New York politician, who loved the outdoors, became vice president then shortly after President. He set up trust, square deals, pure food and drug act. Interested in national parks and reservations.
- William Howard Taft
- Successor of Roosevelt; Different views than Teddy; part of political corruption; Passed Sixteenth Amendment
- initiative
- allowed all citizens to introduce a bill into the legislative and required members to take a vote on it
- newlands reclamation act
- Law that allowed the federal government to build irrigation projects to make marginal lands productive.
- sherman antitrust act
- First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions
- 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.
- Susan B. Anthony
- social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
- Woodrow Wilson
- 28th President of the United States, 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize
- women's christian temperance movement
- women's campain against alcohol / drugs
- triangle shirtwaist fire
- In 1911 this fire broke out in NY killing hundreds of people, mostly women, who were trapped behind the doors
- Jacob Riis
- a muckracker journalist who exposed the poverty and tenements of the United States.
- referendum
- established a procedure by which voters cast ballots for or against proposed laws
- labor unions
- Organizations of workers who, together, put pressure on the employers in an industry to improve working conditions and wages.
- 16th amendment
- Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income.
- 17th amendment
- established the direct election of senators
- direct primary
- a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to work for racial equality
- muckrakers
- Writers and journalists who exposed shameful conditions in businesses and other areas of American life