Women's Suffrage Movement
Socialists
Reform Journalists known as "Muckrakers"
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Gifford Pinchot
WCTU
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Populist Party
The Temperance Movement
Jane Addams
Types of Reformers
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
William Jennings Bryan
United Laborers and Farmers Concerned about low pay, long hours, unsafe working conditions Eugene Debs was Presidential nominee Famous socialists: Helen Keller, Upton Sinclair, Jack London
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Founded 1874 Later addressed many reform needs as a political organization.
Developed out of the cooperatives formed by America's Farmers. Initially the Farmer's Alliance, which tried to attend to farmer's economic and political needs. Ran on the Omaha Platform.
Hull House - settlement house in Chicago, aimed at helping immigrants and women. She was also an "Anti-Imperialist"
Enacted 1914 aimed at breaking anti-competitve practices, and also removed loophole
Father of American Forestry. Emphasized conservation of natural resources
A movement attended by several groups of women to gain the right to vote
Nebraska congressman, Secretary of State under Wilson, Presidential nominee. Supported free coinage of silver. Ran as a Populist Nominee
Jacob Riis Upton Sinclair Ida Tarbell
Enacted in 1890 aimed at limiting anticompetitive practices. Breaking Trusts and Monopolies, but also had a loophole
An example of unsafe work conditions that spurred pressure for safety reforms in factories.
Politicians, journalists, novelists, religious leaders all raised their voices to push for reform
To "clean up American Life" - particularly the use of alcohol.
