Progressive Era (PEDLIGS)
Laws: Laws, treaties, policy statements, tariffs
People: Key authors, politicians, reformers, radicals, labor
leaders, presidents
16th Amendment—income tax
17th Amendment—direct election of senators
18th Amendment—prohibition
19th Amendment—women’s suffrage
Elkins Act (1903)
Hepburn Act (1906)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916)
Underwood Tariff (1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1914)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Initiative, referendum, recall
City managers, city commissions
Direct primary
Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
William James
John Dewey
Frederick Taylor
Muckrakers: Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell,
David G. Philips, Ray S. Baker, S. S. McClure
Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
Robert LaFollette
Gifford Pinchot
B.T. Washington
W. E. B. DuBois
Alice Paul
Eugene Debs
Presidents T. Roosevelt, W. Taft, W. Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair
Carrie Chapman Catt
Florence Kelley
Jane Addams, Hull House
Lillian Wald, Henry Street
Carry A. Nation
Margaret Sanger
Theodore Dreiser
Herbert Croly
Samuel Gompers
Francis Willard
Mother Jones
Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones—Toledo, OH
Tom Johnson—Cleveland, OH
Washington Gladden
Walter Rauschenbusch
Events: Elections, disasters, events that changed U.S. or
world history
Ideas: Philosophical statements, doctrines, presidential
agendas
Square Deal (T.R. 1903-1909)
Trust-busting (e.g. Northern Securities Case 1904)
New Freedom (W. Wilson)
New Nationalism (T.R. 1912)
Pragmatism
Scientific Management
City Beautiful Movement
Social Gospel
Wisconsin Idea
Open shop, closed shop
Socialism
Prohibition
Assimilation
Arbitration
Suffrage
Groups: civic, political, social, literary groups, labor unions
1912 presidential election
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 1911
1902 Coal strike
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
Documents: Books, Essays, Magazines, Newspapers,
Journals
McClure’s Magazine, S. S. McClure
The History of Standard Oil by Ida Tarbell
The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
20 Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
The Crisis (NAACP)
NAACP
National Urban League (NUL)
Society of American Indians (SAI)
Labor unions: AFL, IWW, ILGWU
WCTU- Frances Willard
National Child Labor Committee (Florence Kelley)
Ashcan School
Bull Moose or Progressive Party
National Women’s Party
National American Woman Suffrage Assoc.
Supreme Court Cases: Supreme Court cases (use Italics
or underline case, include year of decision)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Brandeis Brief
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)