Progressive Era Timeline-AngelHardy

Carrie A. Nation

Nov 25, 1846

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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Explination: member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol in pre-Prohibition America. Nation frequently attacked the property of alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet.

Jacob Riis

May 3, 1849

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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Explination: a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City.

Ida Tarbell

Nov 5, 1857

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President: Theordore Roosevelt
Explination: an American teacher, author and muckracker. She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company

Jane Addams/Hull House

Sep 6, 1860

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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Explination: helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace.

Lincoln Steffens

Apr 6, 1866

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President: Theordore Roosevelt
Explination: a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is famous for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union.

Upton Sinclair

Sep 20, 1878

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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Explination: was an American author and one-time candidate for governor of California. Aquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act North

Jul 2, 1890

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President: Benjamin Harrison
Explination: prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizations suspected of being in violation. It was the first federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies.

US v EC Knight &Co, 1895

Jan 21, 1895

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President: Grover Cleveland
Explination: limited the government's power to control monopolies.. sugar company monopoly.

Anthracite Coal Strike

May 12, 1902

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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Explination: Miners went on strike for a higher pay and better working conditions.

Muckracking

Jan 1, 1903

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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Explination: reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines; investigative journalism reporting

Northern Securities v U.S., 1904

Jan 1, 1904

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President: Theodore Roosevelt
Explination: The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies.

Payne Aldrich Tariff, 1909

Apr 9, 1909

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President: William Taft
Explination: a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States

Mann Elkins Act

May 1, 1910

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President: William Taft
Explination: extended the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate the telecommunications industry, and designated telephone, telegraph and wireless companies as common carriers.

American Tobacco v U.S., 1911

Jan 1, 1911

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President: Woodrow Wilson
Explination: an attempt to monopolize the business of tobacco in interstate commerce within the prohibitions of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Mar 25, 1911

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President: William Taft
Explination: was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history.

Progressive/Bull Moose Party

Nov 4, 1912

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President: Roosevelt
Explination: an American political party. It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between himself and President William Howard Taft.

Election of 1912

Nov 5, 1912

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President: Woodrow Wilson
Explination: Presidential election between Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt

16th Amendment

Feb 3, 1913

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President: Woodrow Wilson
Explination: allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.

17th Amendment

May 31, 1913

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President: Woodrow Wilson
Explination: established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.

Federal Reserve Act

Dec 23, 1913

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President: Woodrow Wilson
Explination: Creation of the central banking system of the United States

18th Amendment

Jan 17, 1920

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President: Woodrow Wilson
Explination: established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States, which made the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal.

19th Amendment

Aug 18, 1920

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President: Woodrow Wilson
Explination: prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.

Robert LaFollette

Nov 4, 1924

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President: William Taft
Explination: a Progressive politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the Governor of Wisconsin, and was also a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1906 to 1925). He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in 1924.