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An act introduced in Illinois by Florence Kelley that limited the hours of working women and prohibited child labor.
Illinois Factory Act
This act prohibited transportation across state lines of child labor produced goods.
Keating Owen Act
This allows people to remove an elected official from office.
recall
This law enforced sanitary standards for meat processing and led to federal inspection.
Meat inspection Act
American Railway activist that started the American Socialist Party.
Eugene Debs
The term for giving party supporters government jobs in return for their support to the political machine.
Patronage
This act limited the women's working day to a 10 hour work day in 1908.
Muller V Oregon
This is when the people actually vote on an initiative.
Referendum
The author of the Jungle that led to two different laws passed to clean up the food industry.
Upton Sinclair
A progressive program to promote moral reform that led to the formation of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Prohibition
The term for how political machines awarded government jobs businesses who supported them and would then skim money off the top for themselves.
Graft
This law limited the man's work day to 10 hours a day in 1917.
Bunting v. Oregon
This is when voters put something on a ballot to later vote on it.
Initiative
This muckraker wrote the Shame of the Cities to expose political corruption.
Lincoln Steffens
The effort to improve efficiency in the workplace by applying scientific principles to make tasks simpler and easier.
Scientific Management
A tax to gain access to the voting booths.
Poll Tax
This law created the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
An organization that hired Lewis Hines to take pictures to help to help to get laws passed to prohibit child labor.
National Child Labor Committee
The political cartoonist that exposed NYC's political machine Boss Tweed, his cartoons led to his arrest.
Thomas Nast
This person invented the assembly line and the 5 Dollar work day!
Henry Ford
Laws that the south passed after the Civil War to keep people of color separated from whites.
Jim Crow Laws
This law allowed for direct election of senators.
17th Amendment
A Law that prohibited the sale of misbranded food, medicine or liquor...led to the FDA.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Muckraking journalist that wrote the History of Standard Oil exposing John D Rockefeller's business.
Ida Tarbell
Supreme Court Case that led to legal segregation.
Plessy V Ferguson