Amendments
This amendment banned the manufacturing, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
18th Amendment
This law prohibits trusts, monopolies, and cartels, aiming to promote free and fair competition in the marketplace.
Sherman Antitrust Act
This man authored The Jungle, leading to more regulation of the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
This reformer improved the treatment of the mentally ill by constructing a number of asylums to treat them.
Dorothea Dix
This change, when Americans changed from making products by hand at home to making them with machines in factories, caused rapid urbanization throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Industrial Revolution
This amendment granted women the right to vote at all levels of government.
19th Amendment
Jim Crow laws, which created segregated facilities and relegated African Americans to second class citizenship, got a boost from this court case that gave the green light to separate but equal facilities.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This man was nicknamed the "Trust Buster" for his efforts to fight trusts and monopolies while in office.
Theodore Roosevelt
Susan B. Anthony is best known for her work in this area of reform.
Women's suffrage
The terrible working conditions of Gilded Age factories gave rise to these organizations, which campaigned for safer conditions, better pay and shorter hours.
Labor Unions
This amendment defined citizenship and provides for equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
This law prohibited the adulteration or misbranding of food and drugs moving in interstate commerce.
Pure Food and Drug Act
This woman worked tirelessly to bring down Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, which it was in 1911 for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Ida Tarbell
This man was the superintendent of education for Massachusetts and led efforts for free public education.
Horace Mann
This photojournalist investigated the practice of child labor, contributing to laws that eventually brought about the end of the practice.
Lewis Hine
This amendment gives Congress the power to levy an income tax.
16th Amendment
This law aimed to regulate child labor by prohibiting the interstate sale of goods produced by factories employing children under 14 or mines employing children under 16.
Keating-Owen Act
This man investigated political corruption in cities and reported on the topic in his book, The Shame of Cities.
Lincoln Steffens
This woman investigated lynchings throughout the South, spread her cause to Europe, and was an early member of the NAACP.
Ida B. Wells
These groups exploited immigrants by buying votes with favors, jobs and housing.
Political Machines
This amendment provides for the direct election of US Senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures.
17th Amendment
This law aimed to reduce corruption and patronage by requiring competitive exams for certain government jobs and making it illegal to fire employees for political reasons.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
This man investigated the horrible living conditions of poor immigrants in New York City through his book, How the Other Half Lives.
Jacob Riis
This person penned the Declaration of Sentiments 1848, demanding that women receive the same rights as men.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This man served as president of the American Federation of Labor for nearly 40 years, helping it to become the largest union in the world.
Samuel Gompers