Progressive

The Progressive Era

  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. The dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite
  • Rise of KKK

    Rise of KKK

    The Ku Klux Klan, the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations, and hate groups
  • W.E.B. Dubois

    W.E.B. Dubois

    American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist
  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute

    The program provided students with both academic and vocational training. The students, under Washington, built their own buildings, produced their own food, and provided for most of their own basic necessities
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business, the act became law with support from both political parties
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    United States antitrust law which entails the rule of free competition in commerce.
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    Became a symbol of progressivism. Tried to better a country battered by industrialization, the explosive growth of cities, and the sudden arrival of millions of mostly poor immigrants
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as each race will be equal in quality, "separate but equal"
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    czolgosz, an anarchist, shot the President during one of his public appearances
  • Coal Mine Strike

    Coal Mine Strike

    Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union
  • Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

    Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    The first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal land
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    The first of a series of important consumer protection laws for bad food and drugs which were made by Congress and led to the creation of the ¨Food and Drug Administration¨.
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    American law makes it illegal to mess with or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food to ensure that meat and meat products are processed under regulated sanitary conditions
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    Taft easily defeated William Jennings Bryan for the presidential election
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population
  • NAACP Formed

    NAACP Formed

    The nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers

    Muckrakers were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought out to expose corruption in big business and government
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Widely considered a pivotal moment in history, leading to the transformation of the labor code of New York State and to the adoption of fire safety measures that eventually adapted to the whole country
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Wilson defeated William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the United States presidential election
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    Removed from state legislatures the power to choose U.S. Senators and gave that power directly to voters in each state
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    Defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor
  • The Birth of a Nation Movie

    The Birth of a Nation Movie

    Chronicles the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth and the relationship of two families in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras over the course of several years; the pro-Union Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Camerons.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any State on account of gender
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Laws introduced in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation