Annotative Timeline of Progressive Era

By pintobean1

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Banned Chinese immigration

  • Hull House opened

    opened by Jane Addams who is named the "mother of social work"

  • NAWSA founded

    Established by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to win womens rights

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    established seperate but equal

  • USS Maine explodes

    Americans blamed Spain
    Reason for Spanish-American War

  • March on San Juan Hill

    Rough Riders marched up San Juan Hill
    Helped win war

  • Roosevelt joins Rough Riders

    Second in command
    Volunteer Cavalry in Spanish-American War

  • US annexes Hawaii

    Had Pacific naval base in Pearl Harbor

  • Platt Amendment

    Limited Cuba's government
    Established 2 US Naval bases

  • William McKinley assassinated

    Theodore Roosevelt became 26th president

  • Phillipenes becomes US territory

    Allowed US to influence Pacific regions of the world

  • Panama revolts against Columbia

    caused problem with canal building

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    Said US had the right to intervene in the Western Hemisphere
    Also called Big Stick Diplomacy

  • The Jungle By Upton Sinclair

    uncovered truth about meatpacking industry
    was muckracker

  • NAACP founded

    Founded by W.E.B. Dubois
    devoted to progress of African American community

  • Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

    increased demand for safer working conditions

  • 17th Amendment

    US Senators would be elected directly by the people

  • Panama Canal Opened

    Connected Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

  • 18th Amendment

    Made alcohol illegal