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The Progressive Era
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Business Reform: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
In the beginning of the Progressive Era, Congress passed an Act that would forbid monopolies in business. It gave the Government the right to dissolve trusts if they had monopolistic practices. -
Social Justice Reform - Anti-Saloon League
Religious conservatists, especially in the South, who wanted to secure a dry America through legislation. Grew fast and became powerful. -
Eugene Debs and the SPUSA
Eugene Debs created the Socialist Party of America. He ran for president several times, an got about 6 %, a million of the votes. The SP got less popular as WWI and the Russian Revolution started in Europe. -
H.G. Wells
Science Fiction Author, also father of the Progressive Movement, believed strongly in Darwinism. He wanted people with an intelligence lower than a certain number to lose their rights to reproduction and income. -
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Teddy Roosevelt was President
When President William McKinley was assasinated in Roosevelt took over. He got elected in 1904. Roosevelt was a progressive republican. He was very involved with trustbusting and conservation. He had "The Square Deal" -
Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell was a muckraker who wrote about the unfair business practices of John D. Rockefeller. He had turned his oil company into an all-powerful monopoly, and she exposed how he used lower transportation rates to drive out smaller refineries. Her articles about Rockefeller was posted in McClures monthly magazine between November 1902 and October 1904. -
Corrupt Practices Reform, Elkins Act
Passed in February 1903. Sponsored by the Roosevelt administration, the Elkin's act banned the Radical Republicans from giving rebates as incentives and changing rates without notification. -
Jane Addams - The Hull-House
A feminist who with her friend, Eller G. Starr, created the Hull-House. It was a place where people couldt socialize, they took care of children, a public kitchen was installed and event just listening to the poor and their stories. She climbed into higher positions as her reputation grew. Organized the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1904, to work towards an end to WWI. -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair was a muckraker who wrote The Jungle. The book descibes the horrible working connditions people in the manufacturing business were working under in the 1900s. This book eventually led to the federal Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Act in 1906. -
Fighting Bob
Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette was a governor in Wisconsin before he entered the Senate in 1906. His big goal was to separate business and politics, especially in the railroad industry to regulate rates. -
Public Service Reform - Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Act
These Acts resulted from muckrakers who had, among other things, exposed the terrible conditions of meat packing. It contained strict rules about how food and drugs going into stores should be handled. -
Taxes, the 16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment was passed by Congress on the 2nd of July 1909, but wasn't ratified until February 3, 1913. It allowed the Federal Government to collect taxes from the people. -
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan ran for president three times, but never got elected. When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, Bryan was appointed Secretary of State. He was an anti-imperialist, so he resigned when Wilson prepared th country for WWI. -
Hiram Johnson
Republican, Reform Governor, later elected in as a Senator. Helped found the Progressive Party. Was opposed to conservative policies. -
17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment gave voters the right to vote directly for U.S. senators. Before, the senators had been chosen by state legislatures. It was passed by Congress in 1912, and ratified on April 8, 1913. -
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Wilson's Presidency
Wilson was Democrat president during this time. His slogan was "He kept us out of war" when he won the second time, even though he declared war against Germany afterwards, in 1917. -
Charles Evans Hughes
Ran for president against Woodrow Wilson in 1916, but lost. Be was an anti-corruption attorney, befor he became Governor in New York. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act - Labor Reform
This Act shortened children's working hours and made selling products made by child labor across borders illegal. It was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1918. -
Prohibition - The 18th Amendment
Prohibition banned all use of alcohol. It led to a lot of people becoming criminals, simply because they used to drink before it was illegal and wanted to continue. It wasn't overturned until 1933. -
Womens suffrage, the 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment was passed on June 4, 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920. It gave women the right to vote.
