Progressive Era Timeline

By DerekK
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    Pendleton Civil Service Act

    Established a merit-based system of selecting government officials.
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Outlawed monopolistic business practices.
  • Publication of “Lynch Law in all its Phases”

    Publication of “Lynch Law in all its Phases”

    Ida B. Wells published her book “Southern Horrors - Lynch Law in all its Phases”.
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike

    A violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
  • Pullman Strike

    Pullman Strike

    The Pullman Strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that protested wage cuts and the firing of union representatives.
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  • The First Airplane Flight

    The First Airplane Flight

    The first airplane flight by the Wright Brothers.
  • Election of Theodore Roosevelt

    Election of Theodore Roosevelt

  • Meat Inspection Act

    Meat Inspection Act

    Prohibited the sale of misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.
  • Pure Food & Drug Act

    Pure Food & Drug Act

    Forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.
  • The First Model T Automobile

    The First Model T Automobile

    The Ford Motor Company, owned by Henry Ford, created the Model T, which was one of the first mass production vehicles.
  • Election of William Taft

    Election of William Taft

  • Founding of the NAACP

    Founding of the NAACP

    WEB DuBois, along with others, founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Gave Congress the power to tax incomes.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    Provided for the direct election of U.S. senators
  • Women’s Suffrage Parade in Washington D.C.

    Women’s Suffrage Parade in Washington D.C.

    Alice Paul and the National American Woman Suffrage Association organized a parade for women’s suffrage in Washington D.C. the day before Woodrow Wilson’s presidential inauguration.
  • Ludlow Massacre

    Ludlow Massacre

    The Ludlow Massacre was an attack on striking coal miners and their families by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards. It resulted in the deaths of 25 people, including 11 children.
  • Election of Woodrow Wilson

    Election of Woodrow Wilson

  • Night of Terror Suffrage Arrests

    Night of Terror Suffrage Arrests

    33 women endured a night of brutal beatings for their peaceful women’s suffrage demonstrations in front of the White House.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Declared the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. (Repealed in 1933.)
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Granted women the right to vote.
  • First Commercial Radio Station Broadcast

    First Commercial Radio Station Broadcast

    KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast. They chose to do it on election day, so people could hear the election live.

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