Progressive Era

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  • Progressive Era (1890-1920)

  • Pullman Strike

    After George Pullman, the owner of the Pullman sleeping-car factory in Chicago, had cut his workers wages they went on strike. Eugene V. Debs who was the president of the American Railway Union supported them. "The struggle...has developed into a contest between the producing classes and the money power of the country. We stand upon the ground that the workingmen are entitled to a just proportion of the proceeds of their labor" During the Pullman Strike the ARU got destroyed.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act Approved

    The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    After President McKinley was shot by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6th and died on September 14th, Theodore Roosevelt became the 26. President of the USA. He won the election with 336 out of 476 votes. With the age of 42 he was the youngest person to ever become president of the States.

  • Anthracite Coal Strike

    The Coal strike of 1902, also known as the anthracite coal strike, was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania.

  • The United States Department of Commerce and Labor Created

    The United States Department of Commerce and Labor was a short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business.

  • Elkins Act Passed

    The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. The railroad companies were not permitted to offer rebates. Railroad corporations, their officers, and their employees, were all made liable for discriminatory practices.

  • Northern Securities Case Decided

    The 1904 Northern Securities case was a federal prosecution in which President Roosevelt ordered the Department of Justice to take the Northern Securities Company to court for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act in his “trust-busting” efforts to break up Big business monopolies.

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    President Theodore Roosevelt signs the Pure Food and Drug Act as well as the Meat Inspection Act after Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry.

  • Meat Inspection Act Passed

    The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history.

  • Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

    The Progressive Party of 1912 was an American political party. It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft.The party also became known as the Bull Moose Party after journalists quoted Roosevelt saying "I feel like a bull moose" shortly after the new party was formed.

  • 17th Amendment Ratified

    Passed by Congress May 13, 1912, and ratified April 8, 1913, the 17th amendment modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.

  • 19th Amendment is ratified in Massachusetts

    "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
    "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."