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100

An act introduced in Illinois by Florence Kelley that limited the hours of working women and prohibited child labor.

Illinois Factory Act

100

This act prohibited transportation across state lines of child labor produced goods.

Keating Owen Act

100

This allows people to remove an elected official from office.

recall

100

This law enforced sanitary standards for meat processing and led to federal inspection.

Meat inspection Act

100

American Railway activist that started the American Socialist Party.

Eugene Debs

200

The term for giving party supporters government jobs in return for their support to the political machine.

Patronage

200

This act limited the women's working day to a 10 hour work day in 1908.

Muller V Oregon

200

This is when the people actually vote on an initiative.

Referendum

200

The author of the Jungle that led to two different laws passed to clean up the food industry.

Upton Sinclair

200

A progressive program to promote moral reform that led to the formation of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Prohibition

300

The term for how political machines awarded government jobs businesses who supported them and would then skim money off the top for themselves.

Graft

300

This law limited the man's work day to 10 hours a day in 1917.

Bunting v. Oregon

300

This is when voters put something on a ballot to later vote on it.

Initiative

300

This muckraker wrote the Shame of the Cities to expose political corruption.

Lincoln Steffens

300

The effort to improve efficiency in the workplace by applying scientific principles to make tasks simpler and easier.

Scientific Management

400

A tax to gain access to the voting booths.

Poll Tax

400

This law created the federal income tax. 

16th Amendment

400

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

400

The political cartoonist that exposed NYC's political machine Boss Tweed, his cartoons led to his arrest.

Thomas Nast

400

This person invented the assembly line and the 5 Dollar work day!

Henry Ford

500

Laws that the south passed after the Civil War to keep people of color separated from whites.

Jim Crow Laws

500

This law allowed for direct election of senators.  

17th Amendment

500

A Law that prohibited the sale of misbranded food, medicine or liquor...led to the FDA.

Pure Food and Drug Act

500

Muckraking journalist that wrote the History of Standard Oil exposing John D Rockefeller's business.

Ida Tarbell

500

Supreme Court Case that led to legal segregation.

Plessy V Ferguson