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Progressive Era
Time in which we fix social and economic problems introduced to an industrialized America. -
Galveston Plan
The commission form of city government, also known as the Galveston Plan, was devised in Galveston in 1901 and became one of the three basic forms of municipal government in the United States -
Roosevelt's inauguration
President Theodore Roosevelt, first progressive leader, appointed to office. -
Coal Strike of 1902
Maintenance crews walked out, both sides settled down for a long and bitter fight. Wright wrote that of 147,000 strikers, soon left to go home. Although Mitchell exhorted the miners to strike peaceably, strikers attacked scabs, terrorized their families, and lashed out at private police forces and armed guards hired by mine owners . -
National Reclamation Act
Public land western states are sold to finance a series of massive irrigation projects and dams carried out by the federal government. The resulting irrigation opens up millions of acres of previously arid land to settlers. -
Elkins Act
A United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, authorized the ICC to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
The urged department by Roosevelt was created to probe business engaged in interstate commerce, clearing the road of the "trust-busting" era. -
National Child Labor Committee
The committee set out on a mission of promoting the rights, awareness, dignity, well-being and education of children and youth as they relate to work and working. Later on they will want to ban child labor. -
Lochner v. New York
The Supreme Court states that states are are forbidden from restricting working hours in private businesses. Labor advocates argue, and four dissenting justices agree, that some hazardous jobs require state oversight. -
Hepburn Act
United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. -
Senator La Follete
Robert M. La Follete, a very active progressive activist was elected to the senate house which will lead him to be the face of the movement later on -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a graphic account of the meatpacking industry in Chicago's stockyards which raises awareness of corporate corruption and the deplorable conditions in which poor workers toil, but most of the resulting outcry instead centers on demand for more food safety provisions. -
Pure Food and Drug Act in effect
An act to protect the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. -
Financial Panic (Banker's panic)
The panic’s impact is still felt today because it spurred the monetary reform movement that led to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System -
Muller v. Oregon
an Oregon law limiting the workday for female wage earners to ten hours. The case reached of state activity into the realm of protective nationwide labor legislation. -
TR'S Square Deal for Labor
Roosevelt's three basic goals; control of cooperation, consumer production, and conservation of natural resources. (Also known as the three C's -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Building caught on fire where women on the upper floor died since there was no means of escape. This raised concerns for safety hazards. -
Woodrow Wilson in office
Woodrow Wilson begins his presidency, another progressive national political reform leader. -
17th Amendment
The 17th amendment was approved establishing the direct election of US senators (A favored goal ) -
Federal Reserve System
A banking system, founded after a series of drops in the economy -
Clayton Anti-trust Act
Congress passed the Clayton Antitrust Act to act as an amendment to the Sherman Antitrust Act. This act prohibits sales contracts, local price cutting (to freeze out competitors), and interlocking directorates in corporations with capital of $1 million or more -
The Seaman's Act
The Seamen's Act regulates safety, living conditions, and food standards on merchant vessels and passenger ships, granting merchant marines many of the same protections as their factory
counterparts -
National Woman's Party
The National Woman's Party was an American women's organization formed in 1916 as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Woodrow Wilson signs the Keating-Owen Act, which fights child labor by making it illegal for companies to ship goods produced by children across state lines. -
Entry to WWl
The US, enters WWl diverting attention away from progressive movements and ideologies. -
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote in all elections (Oregon, California, and Washington supporters of women's suffrage)