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- Working Conditions - work place efficiency and safety standards, child labor, workmen's compensation,
minimum wages, and working hours for women
- Immigrant living conditions - The immigrants came over in masses. They were not payed very well and lived in tiny apartments called tenements
- Big business - The government reached out to big businesses and broke them apart. The government wanted control over the railroads and other massive industries.
- Environmentalism - Many of the industries were endangering the environment, so environmentalists tried to protect public lands and health.
- Women’s rights - Women were campaigning for suffrage and other rights like an equal education.
- Racial discrimination - The colored people were not allowed to do many things the white people were allowed to do . This is largely due to the Jim Crow laws.
- Theodore Roosevelt - He was known as a trust buster. He wanted the railroad, food and drugs to be regulated by the government.
- Sherman Antitrust - First act passed by legislation to intervene with the concentration of powers. The powers reduced trade and interfered with the economy.
- Clayton Antitrust Act - A law passed to help protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and
monopolies.
- Meat Inspection Act - Was an act by the legislation that was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt in
1906. The law t prohibited the sale of adulterated or wrongly branded livestock and derived products as food
and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
- Pure Food and Drug Act - This was apart of the Roosevelt Square Deal. It did not allow the interstate transportation and sale of impure or contaminated food.
- Hull House - This was a settlement that aimed to provide social services such as education to working immigrants. In ding this America hoped to help out the poor people.
- 19th Amendment - The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. This was a major part of the women's right push during the progressive era.
- national wildlife refuges - Established in 1903 by president Theodore Roosevelt. It was created to prevent birds from going extinct.
- NAACP - This organization was started on February 12, 1909 in New York, New York. It was founded in order to protect colored people from discrimination and to abolish segregation.
- Tuskegee Institute - This institution was founded in 1881 in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was an all black institution founded by Booker T. Washington.
- Upton Sinclair - She was a book writer who wrote almost 100 books. She wrote books about American
industrialism from the workers point of view and the industrialists point of view.
- Jacob Riis - Jacob Riis was a photographer that documented the slums of New York City. He was
showing what the “other half” of civilization went through. They lived in horrible tenements and were
not paid well.
- National American Suffrage Assoc. - This was an organization that fought for the nineteenth
amendment. The 19th amendment would grant the right to vote for women.
- Alice Paul - She was a women’s rights activist and suffragist. She was one of the frontline fighters for the
passing of the 19th amendment.
- John Muir - He was the founder of the Sierra Club. This was a group that worked for the preservation of
natural resources.
- Gifford Pinchot - He was a forester he called for a conservation of natural resources. He wanted to use
these resources on what they were intended for.
- Act Woodrow Wilson - He was the president who passed the New Freedom Domestic Agenda. He wanted
to lower tariffs and implement a federal income tax.
- Booker T. Washington - He was a black leader during the Progressive Era. He fought against the racism of
blacks and he also was one of the founders of the tuskegee institute.
- William Howard Taft - He was the 27th president of the United States of America. He was Theodore
Roosevelt's hand picked successor for the presidential position.
- Gifford Pinchot - He was a forester he called for a conservation of natural resources. He wanted to use
these resources on what they were intended for.
- Alice Paul - She was a women’s rights activist and suffragist. She was one of the frontline fighters for the
passing of the 19th amendment.
- National American Suffrage Assoc. - This was an organization that fought for the nineteenth
amendment. The 19th amendment would grant the right to vote for women.
- Act Woodrow Wilson - He was the president who passed the New Freedom Domestic Agenda. He wanted
to lower tariffs and implement a federal income tax.
- Booker T. Washington - He was a black leader during the Progressive Era. He fought against the racism of
blacks and he also was one of the founders of the tuskegee institute.
- John Muir - He was the founder of the Sierra Club. This was a group that worked for the preservation of
natural resources.
- William Howard Taft - He was the 27th president of the United States of America. He was Theodore
Roosevelt's hand picked successor for the presidential position.