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| a political movement/ideology favouring reform, with origins in early 20th century America |
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| a journalist, author or filmmaker who investigates and exposes political and/or social corruption. |
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| a social and political reformer from Philadelphia. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today. |
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| established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote |
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| a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. |
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| He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912 |
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| a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major cities |
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| President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection |
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| strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission of 1887 by imposing heavy fines on railroads offering rebates and on the shippers accepting them |
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| gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates which led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers |
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| a 1906 novel written by author and journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to highlight the plight of the working class and to remove from obscurity the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century |
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| substantially amended by the 1967 Wholesome Meat Act, 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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| a 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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| the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. He is the only person to have served in both offices. |
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| allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results |
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| Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive political philosophy during the 1912 election |
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| the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, |
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| the policy of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson which promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters |
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| re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25% |
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| the act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, which was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. |
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| 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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| an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act |
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| the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex |
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