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Corrupt Practices Reform
The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed by Congress in 1890, and was set in place to reform corrupt practices. The act prohibited all trusts and monopolies in restraint of trade. Trying to limit monopolies, progressives and American citizens demanded for this law to be put into effect. -
Public Service Reform
As Public Service Reform, local public associations were formed. This was to keep the families together, as the Progressives believed that family was the most important foundation of American society. -
H.G. Welles
Known as the father of scence fiction. War of the Worlds was his greatest major piece. He was an outspoken socialist. -
Business Reform
Mine Workers went on strike demanding recognition of their union and higher wages. Roosevelt offered to appoint a commission of arbitrators who would hear both sides and settle the dispute. Neither the workers nor the owners liked the sound of this. -
Upton Sinclair
Became famous for his muckracking in the tentieth century. Wrote the novel "The Jungle". "The Jungle" was about the food and meatpacking and poor conditions of the workspace. He introuduced the flaws and disgustingness of the meat peopel were eating. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Companies in the early 1900's were repackiging meat and changing expiration dates on the meat so it would last longer. The conditions of the factory that the meat was being made in were disgusting and unsafe. The Meat inspection act passed by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906 enforced the meat being sluaghtered and kept in sanitary conditions, and made sure the meat was not being colored or repackeged -
Edward R Murrow
was an American broadcast journalist. Major radio broadcaster during World War 2. helped push popular sentiment towards joining the war. Once the war was over, he returned to the States and continued his brand of top quality journalism on radio and eventually television. -
Hiram Johnson
He was an American progressive and isolationist politician from California. He served as the twenty-third governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945. He also ran wih Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 presidential election. -
16th Amendment Passed
The Sixteenth Amendment was passed which was a major social reform. Before it, all people were taxed the same, making life for the poor farmers terrible and filled with debt. However, the Sixteenth Amendment changed this and made taxes based on income instead. -
17th Amendment
he seventeenth amendment was made to give the people the power to vote for their senators directly. It was ratifed to refom the voting process. Before political parties ballots were marked by a certain color which limited the privacy of the voters. To get rid of the possible corruption by pressuring people to vote for a certain party they switched to a secret ballot with all the canidates on each ballot. -
William Jennings Bryan
The Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, was passed in 1914 and gave the rights for the U.S to construct a canal across Nicaragua, it also gave U.S the option to build a naval base on the Gulf of Fonseca. This treaty was nulified in 1970. -
Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Turned the U.S to the problems such as caring for children. She was a leader at the International Congress of Women at The Hague, Holland, in 1915 -
Eugene Debs
Outspoken leader of the labor movement, Eugene Debs opposed Woodrow Wilson as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1912 Presidential Election. Later, he would continue to rally against President Wilson and his decision to take America into war. He was also jailed for it under the Espionage Act. -
Charles Evans Hughes
American statesman, lawyer, and Republican from New York. He was a judge in Supreme court. He ran in the 1916 presidential election. He was 11th chief justice of the United States. He lost the election for president to Woodrow Wilson. -
Labor Reform
NCLC throughout 1900's tried to regulate the child labor.After 1916 Keating-owens act, children under the age of 14 could not be employed. -
Social Justice
Social justice is justice exercised within a society, particularly as it is exercised by and among the various social classes of that society. A socially just society is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, understands and values human rights, and recognizes the dignity of every human being. -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, in office from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement. He was a Democrat. He passed major reforms such as Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and an income tax. Child labor Act, and lastly the Keating–Owen Act -
18th Amendment Passed
A Constitutional Amendment that barred the importation, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the United States. This started the period known has prohibition, and was later ended by the Twenty-First Amendment, -
19th Amendment
prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting. -
Robert La Foullette
reformed the nations voting system by setting up direct primary. Governor of Wisconsin.
