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Corruption
The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. -
Womens right to vote
Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. Idaho and Utah had given women the right to vote at the end of the 19th century. -
National Park Services
The Progressive Movement (1890-1917): a multi-faceted reform movement that addressed a number of issues/social ills associated with industrialization and urban growth. The movement peaked in 1912. -
Jim Crow Laws
state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. All were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period. The laws were enforced until 1965.
