Progressive Era

By ajm0115
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers

    Reform minded journalists, writers, and photographers. They exposed coruption and wrongdoings
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Made it so that railroads charge fair rates to their customers and make those rates public. This bill passed the House, but not the Senate
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    provided recreational facilities for slum children, fighting for child labor laws, and helping immigrants become U.S. citizens.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlaws every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade.
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal" which allowed segregation.
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    25th president from 1897 to 1901 which he was assinated
  • Coal Miner Strike

    Coal Miner Strike

    Mine operators went on strike because o low wages and dangerous working conditions
  • Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    A book about a supreme court decision which they found Standard Oil violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    Showed harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar cities
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Made so the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food was not allowed and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    First US law to provide general protection for any of cultural or natural resource
  • Muller v. Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon

    Court decided whether a state could limit the amount of hours a woman could work while not also limiting the hours of men. Oregon won this so women could only work p to 10 hours
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    The factory was in Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history
  • Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    Theodore Roosevelt's three goals which are conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    Responsible for safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and sometimes, economic statistics
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Served 2 full terms. leader of the Progressive Movement
    28th president