Progressive Era Reforms and Reformers

Menninger – US History II

 

Note: for individuals, use Biography Resource Center from ABRHS Library homepage

(from Home, password is a MA library card #, or ours 22211000375102)

 

General

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/reform/progressive.htm

good overall discussion of issues and people of the era

 

http://www.westirondequoit.org/ihs/library/prog2.htm

****Many annotated links to sites on individual topics and persons, including primary sources – from another high school history teacher

 

http://www.sagehistory.net/progressive/topics/progressive.html

University history professor’s introduction – very complete

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_legislate_02.html

thumbnail listing of all Wilson’s legislations

 

http://journeytohistory.com/History1B/progress1.html

a university professor’s timeline of the era with good description of people and events in all areas of society

 

http://www.progressiveliving.org/history/timeline/progressive_era/progressive_era_timeline.htm

Detailed timeline with links to political and social reforms

 

http://online-history.org/us2-docs/Progressive-Era.ppt.

History teacher’s ppt presentation – full of great images!

 

 

Meat Inspection Act / Pure Food and Drug Act

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/About_FSIS/Agency_History/index.asp

100 years of food safety

 

http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=4084

conservative interpretation of The Jungle

 

http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/75/1/18.pdf

Reprint of article from Journal of Public Health:

Passage of Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 – pictures

 

http://www.eoearth.org/article/History_of_food_and_drug_regulation_in_the_United_States

Encyclopedia of Earth

 

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/PureFoodDrug.htm

part of a biography of Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

Newlands Reclamation Act / U.S. Forest Service

http://www.usbr.gov/history/borhist.html

general history

 

http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/national_reclamation_act_1902_/

student site for Oregon

 

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/conReclaim.htm

Reclamation projects during TR’s presidency

 

http://www.3forests.us/forestcent/cent-history.html

http://www.fs.fed.us/aboutus/history/

US Forest Service history

 

 

Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 / Federal Reserve Act

http://www.answers.com/topic/federal-trade-commission-act-of-1914

history

 

http://www1.ftc.gov/ftc/about.shtm

follow the links for more

 

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/41.html

text of law establishing FTC

 

http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa081599.htm

Federal Reserve history and Act

 

http://www.bos.frb.org/about/pubs/begin.pdf

book online – lots of pictures

 

 

Underwood Act

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1053.html

 

http://webcas.cas.suffolk.edu/history/hansen/hist332_s4.htm

story of tariffs in US

 

 

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..cl154300.a

brief summary

 

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Antitrust

history of anti-trust legislation

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1056.html

 

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/Progs/Clayton.html

explained by section

 

 

National Board of Censorship

http://ncac.org/issues/Film_Censorship.cfm

history of film censorship in the US

 

http://www.pictureshowman.com/articles_genhist_censorship.cfm

good images and discussion, from a business

 

 

Direct Primaries / Election Law

http://www.fec.gov/info/appfour.htm

background on election law

 

 

 

General site for all amendments

http://www.usconstitution.net/constamnotes.html

scroll down to the amendment you need

 

Graduated Income Tax (16th Amendment)

http://www.tax.org/Museum/1901-1932.htm

Museum of Tax History

 

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/a/incometax.htm

general history of income tax in US

 

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=57

very visual site from National Archives

 

 

Direct Election of Senators (17th Amendment)

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment17/

actual law, and explanation

 

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=58

National Archives site

 

 

Women’s Issues -- Suffrage (19th Amendment)

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/

National archives

 

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm

How women won the right to vote

 

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=63

actual document, and explanation

 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920womensvote.html

NY Times article on passage

 

http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/american_historical_documents_1920_19th_amendment_u_s_constitution_womens_right_vote

 

http://www.nwhm.org/ProgressiveEra/home.html

National Women’s History Museum – covers suffrage, birth control, WCTU, and more

 

http://memory.loc.gov/learn///features/timeline/progress/suffrage/suffrage.html

Library of Congress – many links to other information

 

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/prog.htm

National Park Service -- women’s lives

 

http://www.unc.edu/depts/phe/progressivewomen.html

links to Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, suffrage

 

 

 

 

Muckrakers

Note: for individuals, use Biography Resource database from ABRHS Library homepage

 

http://www.ushistory.org/us/42b.asp

Sinclair, Steffens, Tarbell

 

http://www.shmoop.com/muckrakers-reformers/

scroll down to pick up links to pictures and more information

 

 

Race Reform

http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/progressive/franklin.html

Organization of American Historians

 

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-niagara-movement.html

Niagara Movement

 

http://www.naacp.org/about/history/

History of the NAACP

 

 

Labor Laws

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/mono-regsafepart06.htm

US Department of Labor

 

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/davis/photography/reform/progressive_era.html

how photographers influenced child labor laws