Progressive Era

This act prohibited railroads from charging more for short hauls than for long hauls over the same route.

• Interstate Highway Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

• Sherman Anti Trust Act

provides an outlet for minorities to voice grievances and generate new ideas in the political process

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

• Democratic Process

• Third Parties

The period between 1900 and the start of World War I is known as the

• Gilded Age

• Roaring 20s

• Progressive Era

• Imperialism

writers who raked up the 'muck' or dirt of American life.

• muckrakers

• imperialists

• progressives

• idealists

creator of settlement houses to assist immigrants moving to the United States

• W.E.B. Dubios

• Elizabeth Canton

• Jane Addams

• Ida B. Wells

one of the founders of the NAACP

• MLK

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Booker T. Washington

• Ida B. Wells

Considered a Progressive President who initiated the 'Square Deal'

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• William Jennings Bryan

gave women the right to suffrage

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

Responsible for the 'New Freedom' taming big business and encouraging greater competition. Would later be the President during World War I

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Harry Truman

fought for women's suffrage along side Elizabeth Cady Santon, creating the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

• Jane Addams

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. Dubios

• Susan B, Anthony