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Jane Addams Establishes the Hull House
With the help of her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, Jane Addams founds Hull House in Chicago to provide social and educational services to the immigrant residents in the city's crowded working-class tenements. -
Eugene Debs Founds the Industrial Unions
In 1893, a socialist from Indiana named Eugene Debs founded the industrial unions, which included all workers skilled and unskilled. It was one of the larger labor unions at its time and one of the first ones to appear. -
Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President
Teddy Roosevelt takes the place of William McKinley after his assassination. He became the youngest president ever at 42 years old. His presidency would set the path for modern presidency. -
Roosevelt Busts the Northern Securities Trust
Shortly after taking his place within office, Teddy Roosevelt decides to prosecute the Northern Securities Trust Company for practices of monopoly. In doing this, he earned a reputation as the "trust-buster". This was is first step in progressive reform. -
Ida M. Tarbell Exposes Rockerfeller
Ida M. Tarbell, a writer for McClare's monthly magazine, investigated the company of John D. Rockerfeller for their corrupt ways by publishing articles about their cut-throat methods in business. She is considered a muckraker for her works. -
Roosevelt Establishes Natural Reservations
Roosevelt begins to establish natural reservations in the United States to preserve nature and hopefully begin to reduce the wreckage of the enviornment. -
Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle"
Upton Sinclair, a mackraking journalist, began to research for a novel he was writing in 1904, focusing on the human condition in the stock-years of Chicago. He ended up writing and publishing his own novel, "The Jungle", in 1906, depicting the sickening conditions of the meat-packing industry. This lead to reforms such as the Pure Food and Drug Act. -
Taft & Bryan Run for President
William Taft, the Republican nominee hand-picked by former president Teddy Roosevelt, runs against Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan in the 1908 election. Roosevelt picked Taft due to their closely shared ideals. -
Congress Passes 16th Amendment
"AMENDMENT XVI. Congress shall have the 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." The 16th Amendment declares that Congress is allowed to collect some of the money earned by the people in the US. This is how the income tax began. -
Hiram Johnson Creates the Progressive Party
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Women March for Suffrage
A lawyer named Inez Milholland led a group of white-clad, horse riding women down Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation's capital, which was known as the great womam suffrage parade. -
Woodrow Wilson is Elected President
Democratic canditate Woodrow Wilson wins the 1913 presidential election against the likes of Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, and Eugene Debs. As president, he proceeds to support business competition with less monopoly. He proclaimed progressive ideals, but had a different idea for federal government. He believed in attacking large concentrations of power to give greater freedom to average citizens. -
Congress Passes 17th Amendment
"AMENDMENT XVII. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years and each Senator shall have one vote... The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures." The 17th Amendment allows regular voters to elect their state's Senators. There was too much corruption in letting representatives choose, so the result was this amendment. -
Congress Passes the 18th Amendment
"AMENDMENT XVIII. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited." The 18th Amendment, later repealed, banned the sale and drinking of alcohol. Progressivism ideals involved a limit on alcohol, and the Prohibition Era was the effect of that. -
Congress Passes 19th Amendment
"AMENDMENT XIX. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." The 19th Amendment is the law that gave women the right to vote. Large victory for the Progressive movement, for one of their causes was woman sufferage.
