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Jane Addams efforts of social reform
Jane Addams contibuted to the Progressive Era through her efforts at social reform such as housing and sanitation issues, factory inspection,the 8-hour day, and rights of immigrants, women, and children. Shewas the vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.She also contributed through the founding of the Hull House, which was a settlement house that offered day care, libraries, and classes. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Buisness Reform
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act prohibits buisness from become monopolies by being anticompetitive and allows the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizations suspected of being in violation. This Buisness reform banned monopolies causeing for the people not to face unfair prices of goods. -
Eugene Debs formation of Unions
Eugene Debbs was a well known socialist and his connection to progresvism is his formation of the American Railway Union,which he formed due to the Pullman Palace Car Company cuting the wages of the railroad workers. This formation of united railway workers was the first industrial union in the united states. Along with founding the American Railroad union, he founded other unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World,a union that was brining together industrial workers. -
William Jennings Bryan
In 1896 William Jennings Bryan won the presidential nomination for the democratic party, he proposed attacks on the banking system and trusts made him popular among many progressive suporters. Bryan is connected to progressiveism because he was the first major political leader to argue for making it final for the federal government exapand in order to serve the welfare of ordinary American citizens, although he didnt win the election in 1896,1900, and 1904 he rallied progrresives and populists. -
Robert La Follette pushes for progressivism
Robert La Follette served tterms in the house of representaitives from 1885-1890. After his terms in the house of representitives, he became a governor in the state of wisconsin. As governor he contibuted to progressivism by wanting equal and fair taxation of corporate property,and regulation of railroad and public utility charges. He then went on to push for progressive legislation in the senate in 1906 -
Elkins Act; reform of corrupt practices
The Elkins Act gave federal courts the power to end rate discrimination, it upheld rates published by the Interstate Commerce Commission and it banned rebates. Before the passing of the act railroad companies were granting rebates to thier valued customers. This act was passed because it was providing rebates for certain customers and people were being discriminated against based on there race, therefor progressives sought to make a change inorder for it to be fair towards all American Citizens -
Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell was an American journalist and novelist who is best known for her exploting the Standard Oil Cmpany through her novel The History of the Standard Oil Company, With the publishment of this novel Tarbell gained the name of a muckraker. In her novel she eposed the company for having unfair, illegal, unethical and corrupt buisness practices, with tis novel it brought down the monopoly of John D. Rockefeller -
H.G. Wells and A Modern Utopia
H.G. Wells was an English author, who putforth his ideas for social reform through his work "A Modern Utopia". His idea of social reform was the idea of a world state, which included modifications in order to make people live happily. As well as putting his ideas of social reforminto his work he was a member of the Fabian Society, a group who wanted social reform. By contributing ideas of social reform H.G. Wells impscted the Progressive Era. -
Upton Sincliar and the Jungle
Upton Sinclair was a journalist, or muckraker, during the progressive era, who is most well known for his novel the Jungle. He is connected to the progressive era due to his writing that critized social/economical conditions. In his novel of The Jungle he investigated the meatpacking indusrty, and through his investigation he proved need for reform in the meat packing industry. With the publishment of his novel the Meat Inspection Act, and Pure Food and Drug Act were passed. -
Meat Inspection Act: a Public Service Reform
The Meat Inspection act provides a stict cleanliness requirement for meat packer facility and an inspectionof animals before slaughter. This act was passed due to the exposure of the Meat Packing Industry through Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Prior to reform the meat packing industry was performing unhealthy practices, and once the public learned of this wanted a reform. -
Charles Evans Hughes progressive reform as a counsel
Charles Evan Hughs was a well known jurist during the Progressive era. He first gained regonition for discovering utiliy practices that hurt the public. He contributed to progressivism by securing labor legislation, insurance reform, and the creation of the Public Service Commission. After achieving these reforms Hughes stepped down from his postition to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court in 1910. -
Sixteenth Amendment Pased
The Sixteenth Amendment was passed by Congress on July 2nd, 1909 but was not ratified until Febuary 3, 1913. This Amendment enables Congress the right to place a Federal income tax. Before this taxes were placed on goods causeing everyone to pay the same taxes, with the income tax you pay taxes according to how much money you make. This amandment was supported by progressives because many progressive leaders, such as William Jennings Bryan, had been pushing for this tax for a long time. -
Hiram Johnson provides social reforms
Hiram Johnson was a governor, and future senator, who provided many important social reforms. Among these reforms was the push for womens suffrage, and the ability for canidates to register under more then one political party. He also helped in the establishment of a Railroad Comison, which regulated the power of the Southern Pacific Railroad. He also helped found the progressive party and ran as vice president to Roosevelt. -
Seventeenth Amendment Passed
Before the passing, May 13,1912, and ratification,April 8, 1913, of the Seventheeth Ammendment the state legislatures chose the Senators. With the Ammendment it gave the people the ability to directly vote for Senators. Progressives felt that Senators were being chosen based on a profit of money, instead of being chosen for being a good canidate, and with the passing of this ammendement the progressive reformed the corrupt process of electing Senators. -
Teddy Roosevelt eleteded as Progressive Party presidential canidate
Theodore Roosevelt was American President from 1901 to 1909. After his terms as president came to an end he journeyed to Africa and upon his return he decided to run for president in the 1912 election. Theodore Roosevelt is connected to progressivism because he ran as the progressive party presidential canidate in the 1912 presidential elcetion. -
Woodrow Willson wins election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson won the presidetial elction of 1912, and once he was in office he decided to make reforms that were outlined in his book, The New Freedom. Some of the progressive reforms Wilson made were changing tariffs, revision of the banking system, the checking of monopolies and false advertising, and prohibiting of unfair buissnesses. -
Direct Election of Senators: a Social Justice Reform
With the passing of the Seventeenth Amendment it allowed the people to vote on who becomes senator. Prior to this senators were being chosen by legislatures, and with this process there was legislative corruption, meaning that the elections were being persuaded by the amount of profit they made. This social reform by the progressives made it so the people were chosing who elected instead of it being chosen by the legislatures. -
Keating-Owen Act: Labor Reform
The Keating Owen Act prohibited the transport of goods manafactured using child labor across state lines. The passing of this act was an attempt to adress child labor in order to reform the use of children in the work place. -
Eighteenth Amendment Passed
The Eighteenth Amendment,passed on December 18, 1917 and ratified on January 16, 1919, prohibited import, export, transport, manufacture or sale of intoxicating beverages, also known as prohibition. This Amendment was supported by progressives, including the Womens Christian Temperence Union, who felt that alchocol was undermining American Morals and need to be reformed. -
The Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment, passed June 4, 1919 and ratified August 18, 1920, allows American Citizen to have the right to vote regardless of gender. Before this amendment women did not have the right to vote. The battle for womens rights began at the women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. It wasnt until 1912 that Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party became the first party to support womens rights, and with the support of the Progressive Party the amendment was passed.
