-
Corrupt Practices Reform
Political Machines were bribing people to vote for them and help them get what they want. They controlled the cities at this time, and so The corrupt practices reform put an end to the corrupt shadiness.The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed by Congress in 1890, and was set in place to reform corrupt practices. The act prohibited all trusts and monopolies in restraint of trade.The citizens wanted this act to be out in action to erase the monopolies. -
Eugene Debs
Eugene Debs was one of the creaters of the Industrial Workers of the World, andon few occations the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Debs also created the largest labor union of its time,The American Railway Union. From this point on the idea of unions struck the people differently. The out come of the creation of ARU was sucessful forcing the company to stop wage cuts. -
Robert La Follette
Robert La Follette decided to challenge the Stalwarts for leadership of the Republican Party in the state of Wisconsin in 1900. He gave over 216 speeches to an estimated 200,000 people, primarily against the Rail Roads. During Follette's first term as Governor of Wisconsin he proposed to set up a railroad commission, and installed a ad valorem tax. Follette fough hard against the Rail Roads to make things right for the people. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the Untited States of America. He ran as a Republican and during his presidency became more librel. After serving two terms he decided to run again in 1912, but as part as the Bull-Moose party against William Taft. This party was created by Theodore Roosevelt becasuse of the slpit in the Republican party. The Bull-Moose party later became known as the Progressive party. -
Public Service Reform
A great example of Public Service Reform is the sanitation reform. Progressive reformers urged cities to pass legislation which set standards for housing (to try to eliminate the worst tenements) and such sanitation matters as garbage pick-up and sewage systems. The legislation, or tenant laws, would require the hiring of inspectors to see that these standards were met. Many of the inspectors first hired by city governments under these reforms were women, such as Jane Addams. -
Business Reform
Trust busting is a popular Business Reform during the Progressive Era. Trusts are legal bodiesa created to hold stock in many companies, controlled about four-fifths of the industries in the United States. Many trusts lower there price to drive competition out of the market, then jack up there prices even higher. President Roosevelt, in 1904 filed 44 antitrust suits, and winning a number of them, breaking up a number of trusts. -
Ray Stannard Baker
Ray Baker started the Emerican Magizine. He wrote about the colored line. He was one of the first writers to write about the civil rigts for African- Americans. His articles brought the topic up to many people across the nation and proved to be sucessful. -
Upton Sinclair
This date is the publishing date of a book called the Jungle. The Jungle is written by Upton Sinclair.Sinclair is an American author who was known as a muckraker. muckraking is a tradition of investigative journalism reporting that brings problems to the attation to the general public. The Jungle is his most famous work. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, a few months later the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. -
Charles Evans Hughes
Hughes became the 36th Gobernor of New York on january 1st, 1907. He was the republican canidate for the presidential election in 1916, barely loosing to Woodrow Wilson. Hughes became a supporter of Britains new Liberalism. He wanted to modernize state governement by enchancing the powers of the governor and the experts in its bureaucry. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan, also know as the Great Commoner, was elected to be the democratic nomination in 1896,1900, and again an 1908. Bryan was big on trust busting. He told his fellow Deomcrats that they have to go against big corperations and large banks, and to be proud of their anti-elitist ideas of the Republicans. -
Social Justice Reform
Florence Kelly was an American social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today.In 1909 Kelley helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.Kelly worked for the Social Justice Reform. -
H.G. Welles
H. G. Welles was an English author, known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction". Welles also was the first to write about time travel and the time machine.Welles also wrote The Sleeper Awakes in 1910, which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers. This is Welles writing about progressivism and how it can effect the people. -
Hirman Johnson
January 3, 1911 Hiram Johnson was elect to be Californias 23rd governer. In 1912 he was Theodore Roosevelt's running mate in the presidential election for the Progressives. Johnson was considered to be the founder of Progressivism. Johnson strived for womens sufferage and to establish a Railroad Commission to regulate the power of the Southern Pacific Railroad. -
16th Amendment
February 3rd is the date when the 16th Amendment was adopted into the United States Amendments. This Amendment says that the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.This is attacking big rich people and holding them accountable and making them pay what they should be paying and making the average citizen pay what they should be paying. -
Woodrow Wilson
This is the date of when our 28th president took office. Wilson argued for a stronger central governement, and fought for anti-trust legislation. He was also very much for labor rights. He wanted to create real competion to market place by destroying the monopolistic economic trustrs. -
17th Amendment
This amendment established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. William Jennings Bryan, called for reform to the way senators were chosen. -
Jane Addams
In 1915, Jane Addams became involved in the Woman's Peace Party and was elected national chairman. Later that same year she elected president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She often traveled over seas for and international womens movement. Then soon after she was known as president of that conference. After World War 1 she started to turn her eyes to Pacifism. She started a lot for the women rights movement. -
Labor Reform
In 1919 President Woodrow Wilson approved and signed into law the "Tax on Employment of Child Labor." This placed a ten percent tax on net profits of businesses that employed children under age fourteen or made them work more than eight hours a day, six days a week. This would want the buisness owners to higher older kids and make the kids work less so they didn't have to pat a tax. -
18th Amendment
The eighteen Amendment to the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal. Prohibition is greatly associated with the Progressive Era. Many women wanted Alcohol to be illegeal, so that therehusbands would stay out of bars and not spend all of the family wages away on alcohol. Some people wanted alcohol abolished for religous reasons. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. Womens sufferage is another key role in the Progressive Era. Women have been fighting throughout this time for the right to vote and the nineteenth Amendment final granted them this right.
