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Interstate Commerce ActShipping rates had to be reasonable. Rates had to be published.
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Sherman Antitrust ActTrusts, monopolies and such for restraint of trade were illegal. Monopolizing trade was a felony. Jurisdiction of courts was a procedure. Conduct involving trade with other nations was forbidden.
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NYPDJacob Riis and Lincoln Steffens wished to find out Theodore Roosevelt's plans for reforming New York's notoriously corrupt police department.
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H.G. WellsThe Father of the Progressive Movement. A devotee of Darwinism.
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William Jennings BryanKnown as "the Great Commoner", he campaigned hard on Progressive ideas such as anti-imperialism, consumer protection, regulation of trusts, and campaign finance reform. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/bryanw.htm
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Labor ReformIn the decade of 1900, child reform laborers peaked at the highest possible. They began to decline as everything else grew.
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Envirionmental History Timeline: The Progressive Era President Theodore Roosevelt makes his first message to Congress about recommendations for forest and water conservations and reclamation.
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MuckrakerLincoln Steffense and Claude Wetmore wrote "Tweed Days in St. Louis". Chapter 17, Section t, page 514
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Upton SinclairUpton SInclair published The Jungle which attacked the industrial practices and conditions in Chicago. Attamped to make some readers physically sick, "I aimed at the public's hearts,". 511
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Jane AddamsA leading white progressive, helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Called for social refors against racial inequality. page 527
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TaftWilliam Taft was elected in office March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1913.
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Eugene DebsEugene Debs was a running candidate for the Socialist party. They supported workder control of the government and public ownership of all major industries. Did very well in the 1910 elections. 547
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Teddy Roosevelt Delivers SpeechTeddy Roosevelt gave a speech at the Sorbonne in Paris that was to show his personal leaderships during the progressive era. It talked about his progressive reform policies.
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Social Justice ReformSocial Darwinism was developed after the Origin of Species was written by Charles Darwin. Progressives also vigorously attacked the moral ills of prostitution and abuse of alcohol. Many acts were designed for the poor.
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Seventeenth AmendmentThe Seventeenth Amendment authorized voters to elect their senators directly.
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Public Service ReformHomeland, sale, and public ownerships, opinion, and revenues was given the right to all.
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Progressive Party ConventionThe Progressive Party, or Bull Mouse, held its convention in Chicago where Delegeates paraded through the aisles.
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The Sixteenth Amendment authorized a national tax that was based on individual income. The rich received a higher tax than the poor. Progressives always supported. 545
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Underwood TariffThe Underwood Tariff provided the first substantial reductions of rates on imported goods and was a move intended to reduce the cost of living. It still included protectionist measures, but it looked into the consumer's point of view as well.
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Woodrow WilsonTurned to business regulation, limiting the power of monopolies, a threat to small business and a progressive idea.
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HughesDefeated in the 1916 election by Woodrow Wilson, represented the Republican Progressive Party. Spent 20 years in the Supreme Court.
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The Eighteenth Amendment discontinued the manufacture sale, or importation of alcoholic beverages. page 525
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Robert La FolletteA founder of the progressive party. Voted against declaring war. Elected to the US senate in 1905 and took his seat in office in 1906. http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_66_Handout_Robert_LaFollette.htm http://www.google.com/imgres?q=robert+la+folette&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1813&bih=739&tbm=isch&tbnid=pUNp2HpHDfS6KM:&imgrefurl=http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/publications/otherpublications/LaFollette/LaFLegacy.html&docid=XJWCmm-Pa4DbAM&imgurl=http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/images/LafLegacy/LaF
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Business ReformThe Federal Farm Loan Act, Adamson Act, and Federal Workmen's Compensation's Act helped Wilson in his campaign. These were built to prevent monopolices and build trusts among the nation.
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NY TimesThe New York TimesThe NY Times reported that the fight for women's sufferage won a victory in the senate on June 4th. The Susan Anthony amendment was adopted to the Constitution.
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Corrupt Practices ReformMuckraking journalists began calling attention to corruption in city governments, and bad business practices.
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Nineteenth AmendmentNineteenth Amendment greanted women full voting rights but was ratified by the Constitution. Page 552
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Tennessee Nineteenth Amendment RatificationTennessee became the 36th state to ratify. This being said, women were able to vote in the 1920 presidential election.
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ReconstructionThe second reform era of the progression lasted until the beginning of world war i. Women's rights and temperance movement was the main things addressed.
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Hiram JohnsonDeclared, "We ask only to live our own life in our own way, in friendships and sympathy with all, in alliance with none, ". Led th euS to follow a policy of partial isolationism, or withdrawal from world affairs.
