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Progressive Era

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    This act prescribes free competition throughout those engaged in commerce.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington was a big part of history and helped in ways that helped blacks to accept discrimination first as he would work on making sure blacks got to go to school just like whites. Washington even founded the Tuskegee Industrial Institute, and wrote many papers such as the Atlanta Compromise.
  • W.E.B DuBois

    W.E.B DuBois

    DuBois was responsible for many important things, and by being a very known activist for all African America rights. He also founded The National Association for the Advancement of colored people (NAACP). He worked very hard and tried as hard as he could to make sure African Americans got to go to school, and got to be treated just the same as whites did.
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    Pendleton Civil Service Act

    It made it illegal to fire or remove someone from the government because of political reasons.
  • President Theodore Roosevelt

    President Theodore Roosevelt

    President Roosevelt was a very important president and helped to make the Pure Food and Drug Act, and helped helped to make national parks.
  • The Airplane

    The Airplane

    The airplane was a big part of the progressive era, and was made by no other then the Wright brothers. This invention helped to bring a big invention that would soon transport people all over America, to around the globe!
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    This act helped to make sure that all meats were inspected before given out to the public. This helped to cause less deaths in the United States.
  • President Taft

    President Taft

    President William Howard Taft was a very important president, and was best known for how he helped to make the sixteenth and seventeenth amendment during his presidency.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    The Triangle Fire was a big, and deadly moment in U.S history. It helped to make more safety rules for all businesses to make sure nothing like what had happened would ever happen again.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    The 16th Amendment helped to allow Congress to levy to income taxes.
  • Washington D.C Suffrage Protest

    Washington D.C Suffrage Protest

    The Washington D.C Women’s Protest helped to gain the rights for all women to vote, and to have equal rights as men did. It lasted for a long couple weeks, but finally they were able to get what they needed.
  • President Wilson

    President Wilson

    President Woodrow Wilson helped with the Anti- Trust Regulations, and made the eighteenth amendment that soon got repealed.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    The 17th Amendment helped to create the direct election of United States senators.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    The 18th Amendment was made to try and help from making more crimes from drinking, instead this just made everything worse, and was later on removed.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment helped a lot to get woman the rights to vote, and helped with woman suffrage.

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