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CHAPTER 24 | THE PROGRESSIVE ERA | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE

1890

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1893

Anti-Saloon League started

1895

United States  v. E. C. Knight and Company

1901–1909

Roosevelt administration

1902

Anthracite coal strike

1904

Northern Securities case

1903

Elkins Act

1904

Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities

1906

Hepburn Act

1906

Pure Food and Drug Act

1906

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

1906

Meat Inspection Act 1906

1908

Muller  v. Oregon

1908

Ballinger-Pinchot controversy

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist fire

1911

Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco

1913–1921

Wilson administration

1913

Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) ratified

1913

Seventeenth Amendment (direct Senate election) ratified

1913

Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act

1913

Federal Reserve Act

1914

Federal Trade Commission Act

1914

Clayton Antitrust Act

1916

Adamson Act

1916

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act



CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Describe the nature and goals of the progressive movement.
  2. Compare the progressive movement with the populist movement.
  3. Analyze Roosevelt’s brand of progressivism.
  4. Account for Taft’s mixed record as a progressive.
  5. Evaluate Wilson’s efforts for progressive reform.
  6. Assess the impact of progressivism on American politics, society, and economy.