Progressive Era

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Declaration of Sentiments: blueprint for suffrage movement

Women's Christian Temperance Union

1874

• Formed in 1874
• Led by Francis Willard
• Inspired by religious moral AND wives/mothers whose male family members became abusive, alcoholics, broke etc. due to drinking
• Lobbies for local alcohol bans
• Anti-alcohol education programs

National American Woman's Suffrage Association

1890

First President: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Goal: gets most states to pass woman’s suffrage --> Congress must pass an amendment

Anti-Saloon League

1893

Make cities safer
Workers would be more efficient
Help to Americanize immigrants

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Supreme Court ruled that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th Amendment
“Separate but equal”
Legalized racial segregation for 60 years

New York Tenement House Law

1901

Established model housing code for safety and sanitation

National Child Labor Committee

1904

supposed to investigate and collect evidence, and then hire a special photographer named Lewis Hines

The Jungle

1906

Written by Upton Sinclair and it exposed the dangerous of the meat industry

Meat Inspection Act

1906

authorized federal inspection of meat products
o Meat sources inspected before and after death
o Sanitary standards at slaughterhouses and processing plants

Pure Food and Drug Act

1906

regulated production of sale of food and medicines
o Prevented poisonous or spoiled products being sold
o Formed Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

National Association of the Advancement of Colored People

1909

Goal: Get equal rights for African Americans
Tactic: Fix the laws because if it’s not in the law books nothing can protect you.

Triangle Shirt Waist Factory

Mar 25, 1911

Fire which caused 145 women to burn

17th Amendment

1913

Direct election of senators

18th Amendment

1917

Congress passed 18th Amendment: Banned “manufacture, sale, or transportation” of alcohol

19th Amendment

1919

1919: 39 states have full or partial women’s suffrage
Congress passes amendment
August 1920: Ratified
19th Amendment: “The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”