PCWH- The Progressive Movement

18th Amendment

• Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.

19th Amendment

• Granted women the right to vote in the United States.

Sherman Anti-trust Act

• the first major legislation regulating business practices, was passed in 1890 and provided the basis for the government's power to challenge powerful monopolies like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.

Upton Sinclair

• nvestigative journalists who exposed the corruption of this era were popularly known as muckrakers

• In 1906, Sinclair published The Jungle, a novel depicting the horrors of the meat-packing industry. While Sinclair's intention was to promote safer working conditions,

Sarah G Bagley

• She founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844. The association's main goals were to obtain a ten-hour workday and to influence the Massachusetts State Legislature to investigate factory working conditions.

Railway Labor Act (1926)

• removed the ability to strike for railroad and airline industries but allowed for bargaining, arbitration, and mediation.

Wagner Act (officially the National Labor Relations Act of 1935)

• guaranteed the basic rights of workers to organize into unions, engage in collective bargaining, and strike if necessary (except for railroad and airline workers).

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

• placed legal limits on hazardous and harmful labor conditions in workplaces.

Taft-Hartley Act (officially the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947)

• restricted many powers and activities of labor unions.