Progressive Era Timeline

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  • NAWSA is founded

    NAWSA is founded
    was an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association

  • Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin

    Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin

  • Initiative and Referendum system adopted in South Dakota

  • Eugene Debs runs for president on Socialist ticket

  • Direct primary enacted in Wisconsin

  • Tarbell and Steffens articles appear in McMlure's

  • Initatve system adopted in Oregon

  • Dead Indian Land Act, Reclamation Act

  • W.E.B. Dubois' The Soul of Black Folk is published

  • Elkins Railroad Act

  • Muller v Oregon

  • Department of Commerce and Labor is established

  • Direct primaries held in Minnesota

  • Northern Securities Case

  • National Child Labor Committee is established

  • Theordore is elected

  • Lochner v New York

  • IWW is founded

  • Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is published

  • Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Hepburn Act

  • Panic of 1907

  • Taft is elected president

  • NAACP is Founded

  • Ballinger-Pinchot affair

  • Mann Act

  • National coal strike

  • Woodrow Wilson is elected president, Roosevelt runs as Progressive candidate

  • Children's Bureau for Department of Labor is established

  • Congressional Union is established

  • Underwood Tariff Act, Federal Reserve Act

  • Federal Trade Commission Act, Clayton Antitrust act

  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

  • 18th Amendment Ratified

  • Nineteenth Amendment ratified

  • 16th and 17th Amendments ratified