Progressive Era Timeline

  • Women's Suffrage

    Women's Suffrage

    Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections.
  • U.S buys Alaska

    U.S buys Alaska

    On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
  • Cuba gains independence

    Cuba gains independence

    Cuba gain their independence in 1868
  • Yellowstone becomes 1st National Park

    Yellowstone becomes 1st National Park

    Roosevelt made Yellowstone the 1st national park in the United States.
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War

    A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba.
  • U.S Annexes Hawaii

    U.S Annexes Hawaii

    In 1893 the last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili'uokalani, was overthrown by party of businessmen, who then imposed a provisional government. Soon after, President Benjamin Harrison submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian islands to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
  • T.R becomes President

    T.R becomes President

    At age 42, Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest man to assume the U.S. presidency after President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901
  • U.S begins Panama Canal work

    U.S begins Panama Canal work

    The US begins working on the Panama Canal to make it easier to travel to the other side of our country.
  • The Jungle

    The Jungle

    The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
  • Taft elected President

    Taft elected President

    Taft was elected to be President in 1908
  • NAACP Founded

    NAACP Founded

    Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the United States. During its early years, the NAACP focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day.
  • U.S finishes Panama Canal

    U.S finishes Panama Canal

    The US finished the Panama Canal to make it easier to get to the other side of the country.
  • Wilson elected President

    Wilson elected President

    President Wilson was Elected president in
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition

    a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.