Progressive Era

  • Seneca Calls

    meeting between suffrage leaders to get women their rights
  • Literacy tests and voting

    The tests were hard on anyone that was not white, many people failed. Was a method for the south to bypass blacks having the right to vote
  • The WCTU is formed

    worked on banning alcohol in the united states
    wanted to help mothers give their kids a good life, helped teach people about anti alcohol methods
  • Segregation is legal

    In the case of plessy vs ferguson the supreme court ruled that segregation of the races is legal if they have equal places. They ended up having worse places
  • NAWSA

    Formed to get womens suffrage movement even stronger,
    The womens trade unions helped them
  • Tenement house reform

    Laws change making tenement houses safer. Added plumbing and less people per house area. Step towards cleaning up the tenements
  • Anti-Alcohol movement

    Women's groups are putting out different educational services, advertisements and many other methods of getting the message of temperance.
  • W.E.B Dubois founds the NAACP

    Web dubois worked with many people to form the association, they followed his radical style with changing the laws, had strong opinions
  • The Jungle

    The jungle exposed the meat industry for how dangerous and unsanitary it is.
    Caused different laws to be passed and organizations such as the FDA to be formed
  • Meat inspection act

    helped clean up the meat market by letting people go into factories and inspect the meat, and conditions to see if they pass regulations
  • Lewis Hine Photography

    Lewis hine takes photos of kids in the factories to bring attention to the bad things caused by child labor
  • Triangle shirtwaist fire

    Women Were locked in Right After big win on rights The women werent notified about the fire Owners were persecuted but let off the hook
  • The 17th amendment

    Gave voters new rights when electing senators, and voting on different laws. Voters can even reject laws that seem to be bad.
  • Keating-Owen Child labor

    The law passed saying that anyone under 16 had shorter hours, underage workers items could not be transported or sold either, it was ruled unconstitutional because it prevented trade
  • Prohibiton

    People vote on banning alcohol in the united states for the producing, selling, and transporting of it.
    Hoped to americanize the immigrants