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Progressive Era
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was founded
This organization became one of the largest and most influential women's societies of the 19th century by developing its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform and suffrage. -
Interstate Commerce Act was approved
When the Interstate Commerce Act was approved. it was the first act that make the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation. -
How the Other Half Lives was published
It was written by John Riis who told the public about the lives of the immigrants and those who live in the tenements and the fame from this book helped home press the city to improve living conditions for the poor. -
Ida B. Wells started to lead an anti-lynching crusade
When she started to guide this crusade throughout 1890s, she went on to find and became integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association was established
It worked for women suffrage and became the largest voluntary organization in the nation. -
Sherman Antitrust Act was passed
It is the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices and measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. -
Anti-Saloon League was established
It was the most successful political action group that forced the prohibition issue into the forefront of elections and introduced the strategy of the pressure group. -
Eugene V. Debs in Pullman Strike
Directed by Eugene V. Debs, Pullman Strike was the first national strike in United States history. -
Robert La Follette started to influence the Progressive with Wisconsin Idea
Robert La Follette was a Progressive Wisconsin governor in 1901 and Senator in 1906, who attacked machine politics and pushed the state legislature to keep each party to hold a direct primary. -
Northern Securities Antitrust case started to occurred
This case was between Roosevelt against Northern Securities Company, where the result caused damge to Wall street but in hance Roosevelt's reputation against trust funds. -
Lincoln Steffens’ launched a series of articles in McClure:"The Shame of the Cities"
Lincoln Steffen, a muckracker, expressed political corruption across America's greatest cities at the turn of the twentieth century in this series. -
Square Deal Policy applied
It helped middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts but still protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. -
Anthracite Coal Strike occurred
It was one of America's largest industrial strikes and threatened a national coal shortage; it ended wen Roosevelt intervened. -
Elkins Act was passed
It amended the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads and its shippers who rebates and accepting rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor was formed
It was promoting job creation and improving living standards for all Americans by creating infrastructure that promotes economic growth, technological competitiveness, and developments. -
Ida Tarbell’s "Mother of Trusts" was published
Tarbell made her reputation as a muckracker by publishing the history of the Standard Oil Company, the "Mother of Trusts." -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
This novel was significant for shockign the nation by revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. -
Pure Food and Drug Act passed
It started the inspections of companies that provided food, drugs, medicines, liquor and meat that subject to government regulatory agencies. -
Meat Inspection Act was passed
It works to prevent misbranded meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary environments. -
Margaret Sanger started public promotion for birth control rights
Her promotion and herself became the nation's most important birth control advocate in the early twentieth century. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This accident intensified America's needs and led to improve working conditions for factory employees. -
Roosevelt was nominated for the Progressive Party
This nomination created a debut for the Progressive Party (a third party) and represented Roosevelt's official comeback to run in presidential campaigne. -
17th Amendment was passed
17th Amendment was used to calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. -
Underwood Tariff established
It imposed again the federal income tax along with the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff. -
Federal Reserve Act was passed
It stabilized the economy by regulate the supply of currency and control credit. -
Federal Trade Commission was established
It promoted for consumer protection and eliminated and prevented anticompetitive business practices, like coercive monopoly. -
Clayton Antitrust Act was passed
It led to further promote competition in U.S. businesses and discourage the monopolies, they also prohibited price discrimination, price fixing, and exclusive sales contracts. -
John Dewey’s "Democracy and Education" was published
John Dewey and this book was one of the most significant contribution to the development of educational thinking in the twentieth century along with democracy. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act limited the working hours of children and forbade the sale of goods produced by child labor. -
18th Amendment was passed
It was used to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. -
19th Amendment was passed
It was amended to U.S. Constitution to extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
