2. (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914)
Danish American social reformer, muckraking journalist
and social documentary photographer.
He is known for his dedication to using his
photographic and journalistic talents to help the
impoverished in New York City, which was the subject
of most of his prolific writings and photography.
He helped with the implementation of "model
tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian
Lawrence Veiller.
As one of the most prominent proponents of the newly
practicable flash, he is considered a pioneer in
photography.
While living in New York, Riis faced poverty and became
a police reporter that covered quality of life in the
slums.
He alleviated much of the poor living conditions many
lower class citizens were subjected to.
3. "Fighting Bob" La Follette
(June 14, 1855– June 18, 1925)
American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman, the
20th Governor of Wisconsin (1901–1906), and Republican
Senator from Wisconsin (1906–1925).
He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his
own Progressive Party in 1924, carrying Wisconsin and 17% of
the national popular vote.
4. (January 11, 1885 – July
9, 1977)
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
5. The Square Deal was President Theodore
Roosevelt's domestic program formed
upon three basic ideas.
Conservation of natural resources, control
of corporations, and consumer protection.
Thus, it aimed at helping middle class
citizens and involved attacking the
plutocracy and bad trusts while at the
same time protecting business from the
extreme demands of organized labor.
6. The Northern Securities Company was an
important United States railroad trust formed
in 1902 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P.
Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates.
The company controlled the Northern Pacific
Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and other
associated lines.
The company was sued in 1902 under the
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by President
Theodore Roosevelt; one of the first anti-trust
cases filed against corporate interests instead of
labor.
7. Is a North American labor union
best known for representing coal
miners and coal technicians
The UMW was founded in
Columbus, Ohio, on January 22,
1890, with the merger of two old
labor groups, the Knights of Labor
Trade Assembly No. 135 and the
National Progressive Miners
Union.
8. The Hepburn Act is a 1906 United
States federal law that gave the
Interstate Commerce Commission
(ICC) the power to set maximum
railroad rates.
This led to the discontinuation of free
passes to loyal shippers.
In addition, the ICC could view the
railroads' financial records, a task
simplified by standardized
bookkeeping systems.
9. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968)
Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who
wrote over 90 books in many genres.
He achieved popularity in the first half of the
20th century, acquiring particular fame for his
1906 muckraking novel The Jungle.
It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat
packing industry, causing a public uproar that
contributed in part to the passage a few
months later of the 1906 Pure Food and
Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
Time magazine called him "a man with every
gift except humor and silence.
10. (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926)
United States politician from Illinois and leader
of the Republican Party.
Cannon served as Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911,
and historians generally consider him to be the
most dominant Speaker in United States
history, with such control over the House that
he could often control debate.
Cannon is the second-longest continuously
serving Republican Speaker in history, having
been surpassed by fellow Illinoisan Dennis
Hastert, who passed him on June 1, 2006.
11. named for Representative Sereno E. Payne (R-NY)
and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI), began in the
United States House of Representatives as a bill
lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the
United States.
It was the first change in tariff laws since the
Dingley Act of 1897.
President William Howard Taft called Congress into
a special session in 1909 shortly after his
inauguration to discuss the issue.
Thus, the House of Representatives immediately
passed a tariff bill sponsored by Payne, calling for
reduced tariffs.
However, the United States Senate speedily
substituted a bill written by Aldrich, calling for fewer
reductions and more increases in tariffs
12. (July 9, 1858 – June 6, 1922)
was mayor of Seattle,
Washington, from 1904–1906
and U.S. Secretary of the Interior
from 1909–1911.
Ballinger was born in
Boonesboro, Iowa.
He served 1904–1906 as mayor
of Seattle, following the scandal-
prone Yukon Gold Rush era
administration of Thomas D.
Humes
13. The Progressive Party of 1912 was
an American political party.
It was formed after a split in the
Republican Party between
President William Howard Taft and
former President Theodore
Roosevelt.
The party also became known as
the Bull Moose Party when former
President Roosevelt boasted "I'm fit
as a bull moose," after being shot in
an assassination attempt prior to his
1912 campaign speech in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
14. Was Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive
political philosophy during the 1912 election.
He made the case for what he called the New
Nationalism in a speech in Osawatomie,
Kansas, on August 31, 1910.
The central issue he argued was government
protection of human welfare and property
rights.
He insisted that only a powerful federal
government could regulate the economy and
guarantee social justice, and that a President
can only succeed in making their economic
agenda successful if they make the protection
of human welfare their highest priority
15. The New Freedom is the policy of U.S.
President Woodrow Wilson which promoted
antitrust modification, tariff revision, and
reform in banking and currency matters.
This policy stood in opposition to former
President Theodore Roosevelt's ideas of New
Nationalism, particularly on the issue of
antitrust modification. According to Wilson, "If
America is not to have free enterprise, he can
have freedom of no sort whatever." In
presenting his policy, Wilson warned that New
Nationalism represented collectivism, while
New Freedom stood for political and
economic liberty from such things as trusts
(powerful monopolies).
16. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent
agency of the United States government, established in 1914
by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is
the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination
and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully
anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive
monopoly.
17. The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, usually
abbreviated as NAACP ("en double-ay cee
pee"), is one of the oldest and most
influential civil rights organizations in the
United States. Its mission is "to ensure the
political, educational, social, and economic
equality of rights of all persons and to
eliminate racial hatred and racial
discrimination". Its name, retained in
accordance with tradition, is one of the last
surviving uses of the term colored people.
