Progressive Era

Working Conditions

• There were improvements made on the working conditions in the progressive era that were prominent in the Industrialization era. Politicians pushed for the relegation of Child labor, encouraging minors to pursue a modest education.

Immigrant Living Conditions

• Due to the overcrowding of immigrants during this time period, some lived in poverty, they would stay in apartments 12-20 at a time. Also, in order to survive in America, immigrants would take jobs no one else would so that they could receive wages.

Big Business

• During the Progressive Era, the government intervened with the seemingly free reign of the Huge Corporations in the country. They broke trusts and began to relegate the companies. They also devised tariffs and banking reforms

Environmentalism

• To combat the widespread pollution from industrialization corporations such as the railroads, The establishment of the National Park Service was enacted to help the natural resources from depleting.

Women's Rights

• During this time period, the most progress of equality for gender was gained. This was called the suffrage movement and sparked many believers around the Country. This was also gain the right to vote for Women and open job opportunities for them.

Racial Discrimination

• Although there were noticeable social and economic changes happening in America, there was still evident prejudice. Instead, African Americans took the fight to them by establishing organizations such as the NAACP.

Theodore Roosevelt

• President Roosevelt was the first president of the progressive era, he supported desegregation and equality for women. Roosevelt has also been deemed the country's first environmentalist president. In 1906, he signed the National Monuments Act, protecting sites like the Grand Canyon and preserving countless wildlife sanctuaries, national forests and federal game reserves.

Sherman Antitrust

• This was the first federal act enacted by Congress that limited the monopolistic practices of big corporations. The purpose was to relegate the competition of the corporations.

Clayton Antitrust

• The Clayton Antitrust act helped define the unethical sides of Monopolies and outlawed them. This included practices of price-fixing and unrewarded labor.

Meat Inspection Act

• The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

Pure Food and Drug Act

• This act was a set of protection laws that would later lead to the administration of 'Food and Drug.' The act regulated food and drugs moving in interstate commerce and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous patent medicines.

Hull House

• The Hull House which was known as "The University of women" were significant in helping the poor and mostly immigrants to help them learn about the culture and life in America.

19th Amendment

• The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution denies the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of Gender.

National Wildlife Refuges

• The National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation and protection of wildlife in the United States.

NAACP

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, whose purpose was to fight for the equality of African Americans during the 20th century.

Tuskeegee Institue

• Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university that became famous during the progressive era for being an all African American School. Fighter pilots would later graduate from Tuskegee and become the red tails, infamous for protecting bombers while they were en route.

Upton Sinclair

• Upton Sinclair was an American writer during the progressive era who was linked to socialism. He later wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.

Jane Addams

• Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was a notable figure in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and an advocate for world peace.

Jacob Riis

• Jacob Riis was a notable American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer. His most famous work, How the Other Half Lives, shed light on the plight of the slums in New York City

National American Suffrage Assoc.

• he National American Woman Suffrage Association was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.

Alice Paul

• Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

John Muir

• John Muir was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America.

Gifford Pinchot

• Gifford Pinchot was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service.

Act Woodrow Wilson

• The Federal Reserve Act still provides the framework for regulating the nation's banks, credit, and money supply even today. Wilson began to craft his monetary system soon after his election in 1912.

Booker T. Washington

• Educator Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University.

William Howard Taft

• William Taft was selected by President Teddy Roosevelt to be his successor. He is most famous for being the only president to serve on the Supreme Court after leaving office.