Progressive Movement

By Korbin
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    Progressive Era

  • Eiffel Tower

    The Eiffel Tower opens for visitors to come and see

  • William McKinley elected president

    William McKinley is elected president

  • radium discovery

    Marie Curie discovered radium in warsaw poland

  • Boer War

    the boer war in africa starts

  • McKinley reelection

    William McKinley is reelected as president

  • Commonwealth of Australia

    the Commonwealth of Austraila is created

  • American Socialist party

    Eugene V. Debs helped organize the American Socialist party.

  • McKinley assassinated, roosevelt becomes president

    President McKinley was shot and fatally wounded, Theadore Roosevelt assumes presidency

  • Roosevelt elected as president

    Theodore Roosevelt is elected president 4 years after william McKinley is assassanated

  • William H. Taft elected president

    Taft gets elected president after Roosevelt leaves office

  • W.E.B Du Bois helps found NAACP

    W.E.B Du Bois helps found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  • Mexican Revolution

    The Mexican revolution begins.

  • WCTU

    the Women's Christian Temperence Union reached 245,000 members

  • chinas Qin Dynasty falls

    The Qin Dynasty in China topples

  • disaster in Ohio

    a flood in dayton, OH led to a widespread adoption of the council-manager form of goverment.

  • woodrow wilson elected president

    Woodrow Wilson is elected president

  • 17th amendment

    congress ratified the 17th amendment

  • WWI begins

    WW1 breaks out in europe

  • Woodrow Wilson reelected

    Woodrow Wilson is reelected as president

  • alcohal prohabition

    The 18th amendment outlaws alcohal in the United States

  • Gandhi becomes independence leader in India

    Mohandas Gandhi becomes the leader of the Independence movement in India

  • Reforming elections

    by 1920, 20 states had adopted at least one of the initiative, referendum, or recall

  • 19th amendment lets women vote

    the 19th amendment grants women the right to vote for things such as presidental elections