Progressive Era

Progressive

Era

Big Business

Industry Harms

Natural Resources

Laissez-Faire policies allowed businesses to run however owners saw fit

Activists like John Muir and Gifford Pinchot & acts like national wildlife refuges helped advocate for enviormentalism

President Theodore Roosevelt created the USFS organization, protecting millions of acres in the U.S

Poor working conditions for employees

Unsafe/unsanitary produced goods

Unfair management of Financials

Journalists like Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclaire helped bring light to the poor working and living conditions of workers

Meat Inspection Act &

Pure Food and Drug Act

Sherman Antitrust act & Clayton Antitrust Act, many of them passed by President William Howard Taft

President Woodrow Wilson passed The Federal Reserve Act, which provides the framework for regulating the country’s banks, credit, and money supply

Women's

Rights

Activists such as Jane Addams and Alice Paul helped with the suffrage movement

National American Suffrage Association is formed

19th amendment is passed, granting women the right to vote

Racial

Discrimination

NAACP helped people of color secure political, educational, social, and economic equality

Tuskegee Institute was founded by Booker T. Washington in order to train Alabama teachers; Washington was an impactful advocate for African American rights

Immigrant

Living

Conditions

Industrial growth attracted many immigrants to cities in search of work, leading to overpopulation

Sinclair wrote the novel “The Jungle” to expose the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in industrialized cities

Hull House opened to recently arrived immigrants from Europe