APUSH STUFF

this is all about court cases, names/what they did, acts, and amendments

William Jennings Bryan

defended farmers and workers and attacked the gold standard.

Jacob Riis

included photographs of tenement interiors in his famous 1890 book, How the Other Half Lives.
Urban issues, particularly slum and tenement conditions

Jane Addams

Social and urban issues, feminism, and the settlement house movement

19th amendment

gave women suffrage

Florence Kelley

was the head of National Consumers’ League (NCL) and is committed socialist
Child welfare, feminism, workers’ rights, and civil rights

Dawes Act

The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land) by dividing reservations into homesteads. The law was a disaster for Native peoples, resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law’s passage.

Helen Hunt Jackson

wrote A Century of Dishonor (1881)
American Indian relations

Pendleton Act

An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service Commission to fill federal jobs by examination. The Pendleton Act dealt a major blow to the “spoils system” and sought to ensure that government positions were filled by trained, professional employees

James Garfield

Gilled age president, got assassinated

Jacob Coxey

Lead a march that would be called Coxey’s “army”
marched for jobs
response to Panic of 1893

Samuel Gompers

Lead the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Interstate Commerce Act

An 1887 act that created the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), a federal regulatory agency designed to oversee the railroad industry and prevent collusion and unfair rates

Sherman Antitrust Act

Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities, requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act.

Clayton Antitrust Act

A 1914 law that strengthened federal definitions of “monopoly” and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases; it also specified that labor unions could not generally be prosecuted for “restraint of trade,” ensuring that antitrust laws would apply to corporations rather than unions.

John Rockefeller

Oil tycoon

Andrew Carnegie

steel tycoon

William McKinley

Died so Theodore Roosvelt could become president

Newlands Reclamation Act

A 1902 law, supported by President Theodore Roosevelt, that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.

Elkins Act

strengthened the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) over railroad rates.

Hepburn Act

A 1906 antitrust law that empowered the federal Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad shipment rates wherever it believed that railroads were unfairly colluding to set prices

Meat Inspection Act

The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was a landmark law that improved food safety and animal welfare in the US.

Pure Food and Drug Act

A 1906 law regulating the conditions in the food and drug industries to ensure a safe supply of food and medicine.

Antiquities Act

A 1906 act that allowed the U.S. president to use executive powers to set aside, as federal monuments, sites of great environmental or cultural significance. Theodore Roosevelt, the first president to invoke the act’s powers, used them to preserve the Grand Canyon.

Chinese Exclusion Act

The 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States. It continued in effect until the 1940s.

Jim Crow

Laws that required separation of the races, especially blacks and whites, in public facilities. This system of racial segregation in the South lasted a century, from after the Civil War until the 1960s.

Ida Tarbell

investigative journalism who exposed the ruthless monopoly of Standard Oil
Trusts, particularly Standard Oil Co

Upton Sinclair

exposed some of the most extreme forms of labor exploitation in his novel The Jungle, which help pass the Pure Food and Drug Act
Socialism, unsanitary meat packing conditions

Lincoln Steffens

First “muckraker” and started McClure's Magazine which investigated corruption in municipal government in American cities.
Political machines and corruption

Ida B. Wells

became a spokeswoman for racial equality
Race relations, particularly lynching

Lewis Hine

muckraker photographer
photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.
Child labor

Ray Stannard Baker

muckraker
Railroad and financial corruption; race relations

John Muir

Environmentalism, particularly preservationism, and philosophy

John Dewey

Education and psychology

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Scientific management, or “Taylorism.”

16th amendment

allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population

17th amendment

Ratified in 1913, this stipulates that U.S. senators are voted for directly by the people. Prior to this amendment, since the adoption of the U.S Constitution, only state legislators could vote for U.S. senators.

18th amendment

Banned alcohol

Bob La Follette

“Wisconsin Idea”

• passed regulations on utility companies

• passed policies that regulate intrastate railroad.

• passed work man compensation.

Alice Paul

was a fearless leader of the women's suffrage movement in the U.S

Margaret Sanger

launch a national birth control movement

Comstock Act

An 1873 law that prohibited circulation of “obscene literature,” defined as including most information on sex, reproduction, and birth control.

Muller vs. Oregon

Muller v. Oregon was a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1908 that upheld an Oregon law limiting the workday for female wage earners to ten hours

National Consumers’ League

Begun in New York, a national progressive organization that encouraged women, through their shopping decisions, to support fair wages and working conditions for industrial laborers.