APUSH Unit 7 Timeline- Progressive Era

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  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union Founded

    The Women's Christian Temperance Union was the first mass organization for women and was influential towards the 18th amendment.

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    The Interstate Commerce Act regulated the railroad industry's molopolistic practices.

  • National American Woman Suffrage Association Formed

    The National American Woman Suffrage Association played an important role in passing of the Nineteenth Amendment.

  • How the Other Half Lives

    How the Other Half Lives was a book of photojournalism portraying the conditions of New York City slums.

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    The Sherman Antitrust Act prohibited competitive business ventures and allowed the federal government to investigate trusts.

  • Anti-Saloon League

    The Anti-Saloon League was founded in 1893 and was for prohibition. It's biggest triumph is the 18th amendment.

  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs founded the Socialist Party of America in 1901. He ran for presidency many times under this party.

  • Square Deal

    Roosevelt's platform was known as the Square Deal, and led to many acts such as the Elkins Act.

  • Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company

    This journalist's book was meant to expose the Standard Oil Company, run by John D. Rockefeller.

  • Anthracite Coal Strike

    Coal miners went on strike in Pennsylvania, threatening to shut down the winter fuel supply of major cities.

  • United States Department of Commerce and Labor Created

    The Department was created during the presidency of Roosevelt and was concered with controlling big business.

  • Elkins Act

    Elkins Act amended the the Interstate Commerce Act and authorized heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates.

  • Lincoln Steffens' The Shame of the Cities

    The Shame of the Cities is a series of articles about political corruptness and began ¨muckraking¨ journalism.

  • Northern Securities Antitrust

    Roosevelt ordered the Department of Justice to take the Northern Securities Company to court for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, the company was ordered to be dissolved.

  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle is a novel by Upton Sinclair that portrayed the harsh conditions of the meatpacking industry,

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    This act was a series of laws to ban mislabeled food and led to the Food and Drug Administration.

  • Meat Inspection Act

    The Meat Inspected Act prohibited meat to be sold that were not processed under sanitary conditioned.

  • Ida B. Wells founded the NAACP

    Ida. B Wells founded the NAACP, an African-American civil rights organization.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire is one of the deadlist industrial disasters in US history. Owners had locked the doors to prevent workers from taking breaks and they were trapped when the fire occured.

  • Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

    The Progressive Party was formed by Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and Taft.

  • Seventeeth Amendment

    The 17th Amendment consisted of 3 clauses and established popular vote to the election of US Senators.

  • Underwood Tarriff Act

    The Underwood Tarriff Act reduced the tarriff on imported goods.

  • Federal Reserve Act

    The Federal Reserve Act established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.

  • Federal Trade Commission

    Federal Trade Commission was established by the Federal Trade Commission Act. It promoted consumer protection and the elimination of anticompetitive business practices.

  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    The Clayton Antitrust Act strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act, which had many loopholes.

  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    The Keating-Owen Act prohibited the sale of interstate commerce made in factories that hired children under 14, however it was short-lived.

  • John Dewey The New School

    John Dewey founded The New School, renowed for its teaching and open educational enviornment.

  • Eighteenth Amendment

    The Eighteenth Amendment established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment prohibits being denied the right to vote based on your sex,

  • Margaret Sanger

    Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which over time would form into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

  • Robert M. La Follette

    La Follette ran for presidency in his own Progressive Party, winning almost 5 million votes.