Progressive Movement

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Progressive movement

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was a period of social activism and reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s

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John Dewey

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was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

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Scientific Management

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a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows. Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity.

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Ida Tarbell

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an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era

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Seventeenth Amendment

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under which Senators were elected by state legislatures. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, to be consistent with the method of election. It was adopted on April 8, 1913.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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was the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)

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Trust Busting

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antitrust law, is law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct

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Elkins Act

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United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

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Hepburn Act

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United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates.

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The Jungle

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novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to point out the troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century.

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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

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United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines

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Meat Inspection Act

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substantially amended by the 1967 Wholesome Meat Act (P.L. 90-201), requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption

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Sixteenth Amendment

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United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results

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Eugene V. Debs

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an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World

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Federal Reserve Act (1914)

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is the central banking system of the United States. It was created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907

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Clayton Anti Trust

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was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency

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Federal Trade Commission (1914)

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an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act

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Niagara Movement

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was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.

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Booker t Washington

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as an American educator, author, orator, and political leader.

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W.E. B Dubois

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February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an intellectual leader in the United States as sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909

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Alice Paul

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an American suffragette and activist. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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as a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920

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19th Amendment

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prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.

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League Of Women Voters

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n American political organization founded in 1920