Progressive Timeline

  • Parks

    Parks
    more than seven million people visited a year.
    First decade, more than half of the visitors arrived in carriages (vehicles that less than 5 percent had due to them being costly).
  • Skyscrapers

    Skyscrapers
    Solve urban problems of limited, expensive space
  • Andrew Carnegie

    1889 Andrew Carnegie; He was a superintendent for the Pennsylvania railroad. Then became an industrialist and gave a lot of money to educational programs and charities. He supported America financially.
  • Ghost Dance

    Ghost Dance
    The story of “Ghost Dance” was a religious movement. As the 1890s began the whites viewed the ghost dance as a credible threat. The native would practice dances and rituals. It later leads to a massacre called Wounded Knee Massacre. After that massacre, the ghost dance movement ended but people still practice their rituals.
  • Silent Movies

    Silent Movies
    Thomas Edison was unable to link motion to the ​movement he came up with the silent movie in 1893
  • Transportation

    Transportation
    Electric streetcars help people go from suburbs to downtown.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt; He was a president of the united states in 1901. He is famous for his domestication program which helped better lives for Americans, he had 3 ideas known conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
  • The Model T

    The Model T
    The Model T was the first are to be affordable for most Americans, the Model T was also called the “Tin Lizzie”. The Model T was built by Ford motor company.
  • Moving assembly Lines

    Moving assembly Lines
    Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for automobiles. Using the moving assembly line took the time down from 12 hours to 2 and a half hours to build a car.
  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson; He was the President of the United States in 1913 and made the Clayton Antitrust Act. The Act was a law passed during the Era of the progressive movement to protect and commerce against unlawful restraints.
  • Federal Farm Loan Act

    Federal Farm Loan Act
    Federal Farm Loan Act passed through the progressive era and it provided farmers and ranchers with long-term loans at low-interest rates. The Act also created 12 federal land banks.
  • Adamson Act

    Adamson Act established an 8 hour workday for railroad workers.