The establishment of the Federal Reserve System was prompted primarily by a need for this.
What is Financial Reform?
100
This legislation put forth strict cleanliness requirements for meat-packers and created the program of federal meat inspection still used today.
What is Meat Inspection Act?
100
This legislation was used by Roosevelt to file 44 anti-trust suits.
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
100
She was an early leader in the woman's suffrage movement and was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election?
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
100
Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, led to the passage of this legislation.
What is Meat Inspection Act?
200
This social reform group had the mandate "Do Everything".
What is Woman's Christian Temperance Union?
200
The Seventeenth Amendment allowed for this.
What is direct election of senators?
200
This established the Federal Reserve System.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
200
Suffrage is this.
What is the right to vote?
200
In 1912, he was the candidate for the Socialist Party.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
300
He gained fame for being a reform governor in Wisconsin?
Who is Robert M. La Follette?
300
This was given the power to investigate unfair business practices and to issue orders to "cease and desist."
What is Federal Trade Commission?
300
This was intended to provide revenue lost by lowering of tariffs.
What is Federal Income Tax Law or the 16th Amendment?
300
This person was the president of the NAWSA when 19th Amendment was passed.
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
300
This muckraking journalist, in speaking about his famous novel, said, "I aimed at the nation's heart but by accident I hit it in the stomach."
Who is Upton Sinclair?
400
In 1912, this candidate's party called for woman suffrage, an eight-hour work day, and a federal law against child labor.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
This legislation specified that labor unions and farm organizations not only had a right to exist, but would also no longer be subject to antitrust laws.
What is Clayton Anti-trust Act?
400
This legislation halted the sale of contaminated foods or drugs and called for truth in labeling.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
400
This suffragist sacrificed much, including her health, love life, children, etc., to further the cause of woman's rights.
Who is Alice Paul?
400
She wrote The History of Standard Oil Company exposing the ruthless business practices of John D. Rockefeller.
Who is Ida M. Tarbell?
500
This was an effort to improve efficiency by making production tasks simpler and easier.
What is Scientific Management?
500
This legislation substantially reduced import taxes for the first time since the Civil War.
What is Underwood Tariff Act?
500
This legislation made it illegal for Railroads to give rebates or shippers to accept them.
What is the Elkins Act?
500
NAWSA is an acronym for this.
What is National American Woman Suffrage Association?
500
The phrase referred to establishing public ownership of utilities.