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National Child Labor Committee
A progressive organization formed in 1904 to promote laws restricting or banning child labor.
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National Child Labor Committee
A progressive organization formed in 1904 to promote laws restricting or banning child labor.
Keating-Owen Act
Supported by Wilson in 1916, prohibited shipment across state lines of goods produced by underage children, thus giving an expanded importance to the ...
Smith-Hughes Act
A federal law passed in 1917 creating vocational education in public schools.
Muller vs. Oregon
1908 - Louis D Branders got the Supreme Court to accept laws protecting women against the harmful effects of factory labor. First case to use the 'Bra...
National Labor Union
Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday, convict labor, federal department of labor, banking reform, immigration restrictions to in...
Bureau of Mines
This organization was set up by Taft to control mineral resources. It rescued millions of acres from exploitation and protected water-power sites from...
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| Term | Definition |
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National Child Labor Committee | A progressive organization formed in 1904 to promote laws restricting or banning child labor. |
Keating-Owen Act | Supported by Wilson in 1916, prohibited shipment across state lines of goods produced by underage children, thus giving an expanded importance to the constitutional clause assigning Congress the task of regulating Interstate Commerce. Unfortunately, Congress struck down the act, and a new law attempted to achieve the same goal by imposing a heavy tax on the products of Child Labor. |
Smith-Hughes Act | A federal law passed in 1917 creating vocational education in public schools. |
Muller vs. Oregon | 1908 - Louis D Branders got the Supreme Court to accept laws protecting women against the harmful effects of factory labor. First case to use the 'Brandeis brief'; recognized a 10-hour workday for women laundry workers on the grounds of health and community concerns. |
National Labor Union | Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday, convict labor, federal department of labor, banking reform, immigration restrictions to increase wages, women; excluded blacks. |
Bureau of Mines | This organization was set up by Taft to control mineral resources. It rescued millions of acres from exploitation and protected water-power sites from private development. This was one of his praiseworthy accomplishments that were overshadowed by his blunders. |
Adamson Act | 1916 law that established 8 hour workday for railroad workers in order to avert a national strike. |
Tenement House Act of 1901 | (1901) - A reform bill to improve living standards of people in the tenements. Also established the tenement house commission, surveying conditions in tenements & enforcing the law. Toilets had to be on each floor, fire escapes & windows installed. |
17th Amendment | Direct election of Senators. |
18th Amendment | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. |
19th Amendment | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. |
Anti-Saloon League | U.S. organization working for prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. Founded in 1893 as the Ohio Anti-Saloon League at Oberlin, Ohio, by representatives of temperance societies and evangelical Protestant churches, it came to wield great political influence. |
Women's Christian Temperance Movement | 1874 - Women's organization whose members visited schools to educate children about the evils of alcohol, addressed prison reform, and blanketed men's meetings with literature. |
Niagara Movement | In 1905 Dubois started this movement at Niagara Falls, and four years later joined with white progressives sympathetic to their cause to form NAACP, the new organization later led to the drive for equal rights. |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | (NAACP); Founded by W.E.B Du Bois in 1910 in order to help create more social and economic opportunities for blacks. |
Northern Securities Company | A railroad monopoly formed by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill which violated Sherman Antitrust Act. |