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Jane Addams Made Hull House
Jane Addams was part of the Women's Peace Party, and she was one of the leading women for Women's Suffrage. She and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, bought a mansion, and remodeled it. This was sugnificant in the Progressive era because it gave kids a place to stay, gave adults the schooling they wanted, and ulitmatly proved that she was a peaceful person and would fight for women's suffrage in a peaceful way which led the way for many others. -
Eugene Debs organized a union strike
Eugene Debs was a Union leader one of which was called the American Railway Union. He set up a stike against the Pullman Palace Car Company over the paycuts that the workers were enduring. Then he went as far to create a nation wide boycott against Pullman Palace Car Company, and the only way it got stopped was because the U.S. Army got involved. It showed the nation that workers would go to extremes if it meant they would be fairer to them. -
William Jennings Bryan invented Stumping Tour
Bryan ran for Democratic President three times in a row.. Although he did loose to William McKinley in the 1896 elecrtions because he created the Stumping Tour he still had control over the Democratic party. The Stumping Tour is when the Presidential candidates are running for office and they travel around the country making speeches on "tree stumps" hence Stumping Tour. William Bryan is important in the Progressive era because he set the road for the rest of the Presidents running for office. -
Labor Reform: National Child Labor Committee formed
This committee would go to factories and take photos of the children working with the machines, and showed them to the people. The people realized how aweful the children were treated and formed labor unions. This was important because by boycotting the factories all of the workers got higher wadges. Not only did children not have to work their, not as many people had to work in the family because just one person got more money. -
Lincoln Steffens published The Shame of Cities
Lincoln considers himself to be one of the first Muckrakers of the Progressive Era. He wrote and published the book byhimself, and it exposed the aweful conditions of the machineries in America. This was important because it lead other people to do the same thing and expose the wrongs in the country. It also was important because it showed people ,and even the government, that there were bad things happening in the country that needed to change, and they eventually did. -
Upton Sinclair publishes "The Jungle"
Upton Sinclair was an American author who wrote many books throughout the corse of his life. He is considered a Muckraker because he exposed the meat industry in his book "The jungle". The book is all about the horrible things they do to the animals before during and after they kill them. It also exposed the aweful ways people tried to keep the meat fresh and sell to costomers. -
H.G. Wells published Tono-Bungay.
Wells wrote many other science fiction books during his life. This book in poticular was him talking about the rights and wrongs of English society, and it also had controvertial sexual content. This is important to the proggressive era because in the early 1900s everyone and everything was very conservative. H.G. Wells baffled everyone and showed people that it was ok to express your opinion, and if its a fact of life its ok to write it down. -
Social Justice Reform: Salvation Army nationalised labor exchanges
The Salvation Army at this point mainly handed out food, but in 1909 they decided to start organizing jobs for people. They started to collect job statistics and told people what jobs were open. This helped many people because not only could people get food from the Salvation Army they could not get a job ans start making money. -
Charles Evans Hughes signed Worker's Compensation Act
Charles Hughes signed this act, which was for workers who worked in a hazardous place. It stated that the worker must sign a peice of paper before doing a dangerous job, just in case they did get hurt the company would not be liable. This act was important during the Progressive Era because people worked in extremely dangerous jobs, and got hurt all the time. This way the worker would know what they were getting into. -
Corrupt Practice Act was passed
This act put a limit on the amount political parties spend on their campaigns. It was later modified and it put a limit on the amount the candidate spends too. This Act is important because some candidates couldnt get as many votes because they didnt have enough money to spend on the campaigns, so it wasnt fair. -
Roosevelt runs for President the third time
President Roosevelt had just comeback from Africa, and wanted to run for President again. He had already been President two other times, but he thought he could make the country even better. All of the people decided that Roosevelt was too liberal for him, so he lost the elections. It showed the major gap between Republicans and Democrats and how the people wanted to keep it that way during the progressive era. -
Public Heath Service formed
This Foundation controlled the spreading of any deadly diseases, provided food and drugs to people who need it, and they provided medical help to people who were involved in a natural disaster. This was important to the Progressive Era because in the years to come people will need it a lot. It is also vital because diseases were a major problem back then, but this foundation helped control them. -
Robert La Follette wins 17% vote for elections
Robert La Follette, "Fighting Bob", was part of the Progressive party and fought for differnt peoples rights. He ran for President in 1912 and got 17% of the votes which was the third most amount of votes in a third party ever. This was important because it showed that people wanted change and that the actual Presidents werent doing anything. Follette fought against railroad trusts. The Americans supported him because he would get rid of most of the corrupt trusts, which Americans hated. -
16th Amendment passed
This amendment allows congress to impose an income tax on everyone. This means that the more money one make the more taxes that someone has to pay to the government, and not to the state. This greatly effected America during the Progressive Era and still today because it took most of the power away from the states, and gave it to the government. -
17th amendment passed
The 17th Amendment allows U.S. Senators to get elected by direct election through popular vote. This means that people vote for an office holder, and then those people vote for the Senators. Most people thought that this law was unfair, but it was still passed in the Senate so it became a law. It was important becausethe people now vote for other people to vote for them, and they dont like that. -
Wilson passes Federal Reserve Act
Woodrow Wilson was the elected democrat President in 1912. He was a very Proggressive president, and arguably did the most for the progressives out of all the past Presidents. He passed the Federal Reserve Act which created a central banking account. It was improtant that he did this because it legalized the governments ability to give out money. -
Business Reform: Federal Trade Commission Formed
The Federal Trade Commission was made to watch over businesses to make sure they werent doing anything illegal. What businesses would do is lower their prices to run the other business out, and then raise their prices very high so customers would barely be able to afford it. If any businesses were caught doing something illegal they would be shut down. This is important because people didnt like paying way more than they had to for things, but when businesses were doing that they were shut down -
18th Amendment passed
This amendment was the prohibition of alcohol. The women wanted this to be banned because they wanted their husbands to come home and help with the children instead of wasting their money on beverages. After it was passed there was even more usage of alcohol, and more organized crimes. The amendment was repealed in 1933, and it was the only amendment to ever be repealed. -
Hiram Johnson became leader of the Progressive Party
After President Roosevelt died, Johnson became the new leader, but he changed his views and supported the Republicans instead. He was a Senator who supported the ideas that he liked, not the ideas that pertained to his party. People liked him a lot because of this, and it showed people that you can change your views based on an i dea you like or dislike. -
19th Amendment passed
This amendment stated that U.S. citizens can not be denided the right to vote based on their gender. The suffragettes finally got what they wanted, and they could vote. Some of the men were afraid that the women would mess up their voting records, but it hardly changed at all. This amendment is important because women werre now technically equal to men, with voting rights, and that is one step closer to equality.
