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17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment to the US Constitution established Direct election of US Senators by popular vote. Reformers tabled constitutional amendments with issues finally reaching a head during 1890s and 1900s -
Corrupt Practices Reform
Progressivism in the United States is a broadly based reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century and is generally considered to be middle class and reformist in nature. It arose as a response to the vast changes brought by modernization, such as the growth of large corporations and railroads, and fears of corruption in American politics. Historians debate the exact contours, but generally date the "Progressive Era" from the 1890s to either World War I. -
Charles Evan Huges
Charles Evans Hughes, the man for whom Hughes Hall is named, joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1891, when the school was just five years old, and Hughes was twenty-nine. He graduated from Brown University and went to law school at Columbia before coming to teach at Cornell. One of his first students, Myron C. Taylor, would later look back on Hughes as an early mentor. -
Public Service Reform
Civil service reform is a deliberate action to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, professionalism, representativity and democratic character of a civil service, with a view to promoting better delivery of public goods and services, with increased accountability. -
Eugene Debs
June 20, 1893 Workers founded the American Railway Union to unite railway labor in a single organization. Eugene Debs was the leader. Sept. 1893-May 1894 The Pullman Works reduced wages, on the average by 25 percent, while not lowering rents in company houses. -
Robert La Foulette
He worked as a farm labourer before entering the University of Wisconsin in 1875. -
William Jennings Bryan
"Cross of Gold" speech, Ran for President of the United States, but was defeated by William McKinley. -
Jane Addans
In February 13, 1899, Jane Addams went on a typical lecture tour—leaving Chicago on February 13, she spoke at Wells College in Aurora, New York on the 14th; at Auburn Seminary the next day; at Wells again on the 16th; then to New York for a quick stopover; then to Boston where she made two appearances at woman's clubs on the 18th; two more appearances on Sunday; on to the University of Vermont on -
Ida M Tarbell
She was an American teacher, author, and journalist. She was best known as one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive Era, work known in modern times as investigative journalism. Sge wrote many notable magnazines, series, and biographies. She is best known as for her 1904 book The History of the Strandered Oil Company, which was listed as No.5 in a 1999 list by NY University of the top 100 works of the 20th Cenutry American journalism. She became the first person to take on Strandered Oil. -
Business Reform
On a national level, progressivism gained a strong voice in the White House when Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901. TR believed that strong corporations were good for America, but he also believed that corporate behavior must be watched to ensure that corporate greed did not get out of hand (trust-busting and federal regulation of business) -
Teddy Roosevelt
At age 42, Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States and is sworn into office at about 3:15 p.m. at the Ansley Wilcox Mansion, 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, the youngest man ever to become President (John F. Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected to that office at the age of 43). -
Upton Sinclair
He was born as a novelist and made his first book named the Jungle. -
Social Justice Reform
The Social Justice Reform movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as excessive wealth, poverty, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war. -
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California; he served as the 23rd Governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945. -
16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment to the US allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportitioning it among the states or basing on Census results -
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. Running against Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican candidate William Howard Taft, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution established Prohibition in the United States. The separate Volstead Act set down methods of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition in January 16, 1919 -
HG Wells
Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919. Since "Barbellion" was the real author's pen name, many reviewers believed Wells to have been the true author of the Journal; Wells always denied this, despite being full of praise for the diaries, but the rumours persisted until Barbellion's death later that year. -
Labor Reform
A reform movement is a kind of social movement that aims to make gradual change, or change in certain aspects of society, rather than rapid or fundamental changes. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution allows states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the 1910s most states disenfranchised women. The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote.
