Progressive policy of Theodore Roosevelt--1912 Progressive party platform--favored a more active government role in economic and social affairs--favored continued consolidation of trusts and labor unions and the growth of powerful regulatory agencies in Washington--favored women's suffrage and social welfare programs (including minimum-wage laws and "socialistic" social insurance).
Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired pro-consumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and drugs
preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
a set of federal acts passed by the United States Congress under the Grant administration along with related state laws.
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
In 1905 representatives of 43 groups who opposed the policies of American Federation of Labour, formed the radical labour organization.
a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
Refers to an incident that took place around and during the play of the 1919 World Series where
eight members of the Black Sox were banned for life from baseball for throwing (intentionally losing) games, and essentially giving the series to the Cincinnati Reds after betting on the game.
Former president Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party candidate, but was unsuccessful in obtaining a presidential win.
this welfare organization came to the us from england in 1880 and sought to provide food, shelter, and employment to the urban poor while preaching temperance and morality.
The most successful political action group that forced the prohibition issue into the forefront of state and local elections and pioneered the strategy of the single-issue pressure group.
an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes