Progressive Era Timeline By hcps-eatonaa May 1, 1890 NAWSA is founded was an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association Jan 1, 1897 Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin Jan 1, 1898 Initiative and Referendum system adopted in South Dakota Jan 1, 1900 Eugene Debs runs for president on Socialist ticket Jan 1, 1901 Direct primary enacted in Wisconsin Jan 1, 1902 Tarbell and Steffens articles appear in McMlure's Jan 1, 1902 Initatve system adopted in Oregon Jan 1, 1902 Dead Indian Land Act, Reclamation Act Jan 1, 1903 W.E.B. Dubois' The Soul of Black Folk is published Jan 1, 1903 Elkins Railroad Act Jan 1, 1903 Muller v Oregon Feb 14, 1903 Department of Commerce and Labor is established Jan 1, 1904 Direct primaries held in Minnesota Jan 1, 1904 Northern Securities Case Jan 1, 1904 National Child Labor Committee is established Jan 1, 1904 Theordore is elected Jan 1, 1905 Lochner v New York Jun 27, 1905 IWW is founded Jan 1, 1906 Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is published Jan 1, 1906 Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Hepburn Act Jan 1, 1907 Panic of 1907 Jan 1, 1909 Taft is elected president Feb 12, 1909 NAACP is Founded Nov 13, 1909 Ballinger-Pinchot affair Jan 1, 1910 Mann Act Jan 1, 1912 National coal strike Jan 1, 1912 Woodrow Wilson is elected president, Roosevelt runs as Progressive candidate Jan 1, 1912 Children's Bureau for Department of Labor is established Jan 1, 1913 Congressional Union is established Jan 1, 1913 Underwood Tariff Act, Federal Reserve Act Jan 1, 1914 Federal Trade Commission Act, Clayton Antitrust act Sep 1, 1916 Keating-Owen Child Labor Act Jan 16, 1919 18th Amendment Ratified Jun 4, 1919 Nineteenth Amendment ratified Jun 4, 1919 16th and 17th Amendments ratified
