Progressive Era

Progressive Era

Period: Dec 5, 1890 to Dec 5, 1920

Jane Adams

Dec 9, 1890

Jane Addams was a social reformer who created the Hull House. She also tried to reform sanitation issues in housing and factories. She helped the rights of immangrants and of children and women. She was the Vice president of the Womans Suffrage Association.

Lillian Wald

Dec 12, 1891

Lillian Wald was an idealogist who wanted to form a just society. She wanted woman, children, poor, immigrants, enthnic and religous groups would get the American life, liberty and persuit of happiness. In this prosses to do so, she created the Henry Street Settlement to help New Yorks lower eat side reach her goal. In the process Wald provied nursing services out of Nurses Settlements and provided care for little to no pay.

Booker T Washington

Dec 12, 1895

Booker T Washington was an African American representative of the Progressice Era. Washington made the Tuskegee Institute which helped African Americans learn to trade to earn a living and gain the trust of the white society.

H.G Wells

Dec 8, 1900

Herbert Goerge Wells was an english author who wrote books about the lower-middle class life and the woman suffrage.

Teddy Roosevelt

Sep 14, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt was the president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Teddy Roosevelt was a republican who was interested in reform. The Square Deal was Roosevelts Slogan. He believed that he should balance the interests of labor, business, and consumers. He wanted to limit the powers of trusts to give the public better benefits and improve working conditions and safety.

Frank Norris

Dec 12, 1901

Frank Norris was an author who wrote the book The Octopus which exposed the monopolistic railroad practices in California.

Washington Gladden

Dec 12, 1902

Washington Gladden was a believer of the Social Gospel. Gladden came to Colombus and was shocked by the the corruptedness of everything. Gladden won the Columbus City Council. While in office he tried to correct the moral values of the city and government. He also tried to enforc temperence laws but had a hard struggle in doing so.

Eugene Debs

Dec 5, 1904

Eugene Debs was an American union leader. He was famous for creating the American Railway Union (ARU). A union that was made to go against the Pullman Palace Car Company because of the unfair treatment and unpay of the workers.

Ida Tarbell

Dec 12, 1904

Ida Tarbell wrote an article in the McClures Magezine called the History of Standard Oil Company. This artivle showed the immoral and currupt tactics that the Standard Oil Company used.

Robert La Follette

Jan 2, 1906

Robert La Follette was the govoner of Wesconsin. He made the idea of the Wisconsin Idea.

Upton sinclair

Dec 5, 1906

Upton Sinclair was an American writer who wrote many books. His most famous and most recognized book is The Jungle. The book showed everyone about the meat packing industry and the extremly poor conditions that they had.

Charles Evans Hughes

Dec 8, 1907

Charles Hughes was the govener of New York. Hughes was a republican who opposed Theodore Roosevelts New Idea. Hughes also supported the League of Nations

16th Amendment

Dec 8, 1909

The 16th amendment gave the federal government the ability to collect taxes from the national population. This gave the government more money to repay for money they lost.

Emma Goldman

Dec 12, 1910

Emma Goldman was a female author who wrote about the womans suffrage movement. She used her writing to show her opinion on the wrongs of womans suffrage and to stand up for woman and get them equal rights.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Dec 12, 1910

Carrie Chapman Catt was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The NAWSA enfranchised woman and they lobbied President Wilson and cogress untill they got the Woman Suffrage consitutional Amendment.

Hiram Johnson

Dec 8, 1911

Hiram Johnson was an American Progressive and was the 23rd governer and a United states senator. Hiram isolatonized politicians from California because he did not want to deal with other countries affairs

William Jennings Bryan

Dec 5, 1912

William Jennings Bryan Was a public speaker during the early 1900s. Willaim spoke out for the idea of free coinage of silver. Which helped many farmers escape debt and hard times.

Jacob Riis

Dec 9, 1912

Jacob Riis was an American social reformer who journalized and used photography to expose the tenement houses and the conditions they were in.

Margaret Sanger

Dec 12, 1912

Margaret Sanger was a former nurse who deticated her life to distrubuting birthcontrol and information about birth control. She wrote articles on health for the Socialist Party paper to inform the public about birth control and the benefits of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Dec 8, 1913

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United states. While in office he got a Democratic congress to pass a major progressive reforms and he promoted labor union cooperation. Wilson backed the Clayton Antitrust At of 1914. Doing this is set a guide for what coorperations could not do.

17th Amendment

Dec 8, 1913

The 17th Amendment allowed the public to choose its representatives in the U.S. Senate.

Mary Harris Jones

Dec 12, 1913

Mary Harris jones or Mother Jones was part of the Socialist Party. Mother Jones helped to form unions that related to the Socialist Party and she fought agaisnt exploitation of child labor.

Corrupt Service Reform

Dec 9, 1914

In 1914 Wilson back the creation of the Federal Trade Commission. Although the FTC was made for reform, the power was abused and targeted mislabeled products and false claims.

Social Justice Reform

Dec 9, 1915

Wilson and his adminstration supported the working people. The Adamson Act was supported by Wilson. The act reduced the workday for railroad workers with no pay cuts. The Act ended railroad strikes and helped the working people.

18th Amendment

Dec 8, 1917

the 18th Amendment banned the sale and the use of alcohol. This also helped to lead into the Prohibition era and temperance laws.

Alice Paul

Dec 12, 1917

Alice Paul was a womans advocate who created the national womans party. She orchestrated the first picket line in front of the white house to support womans rights and to make a change

19th Amendment

Dec 8, 1919

The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.