Touch Grass Respectfully
Famous national parks protected during the Progressive Era.
Yellowstone / Yosemite
President known for trustbusting and the Square Deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
Idea that women should help reform society like they cared for homes.
Social Housekeeping
Financial crisis that led to banking reforms.
Panic! of 1907
Deadly factory fire that led to workplace safety reforms.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Agency managing national forests.
U.S. Forest Service
Roosevelt’s program focused on consumers, workers, and conservation.
Square Deal
Group that used protests and demonstrations to push for women’s voting rights.
National Woman’s Party
Law creating the central banking system of the U.S.
Federal Reserve Act / Federal Reserve System
Reform leader who fought for child labor laws and fair wages.
Florence Kelley
Idea that nature should be protected and left untouched.
Preservationism
Strike where Roosevelt intervened to protect workers and consumers.
Coal Strike (1902)
# Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Agency created to investigate unfair business practices.
Federal Trade Commission
Labor reformer who later helped create New Deal labor protections.
Frances Perkins
Preservationist who founded the Sierra Club.
John Muir
Law used to break up monopolies.
Sherman Antitrust Act
First major women’s rights convention in the U.S.
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
President who promoted the New Freedom reforms.
Woodrow Wilson
Founder of Hull House who supported immigrants and the poor.
Jane Addams
Idea that natural resources should be used carefully and wisely.
Conservationism
Law strengthening antitrust rules and protecting unions.
Clayton Antitrust Act
Founder of Henry Street Settlement in New York.
Lillian Wald
President who filed more antitrust lawsuits than Roosevelt.
William Howard Taft
Law that tried to restrict child labor in factories.
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act