Changes In The Progressive Era

There were many changes in the United States throughout the years since it was first founded. Whether they be religious, physical, or economic, depended on the years they were based in. The periods that had some of the most important changes were the 1870’s to the 1930’s. During the years there are different eras, like during the years 1877-1900 we had The Rise of Industrial America which had five sub-eras of events and during the year 1900-1929 we had the Progressive Era to the New Era which had four sub-eras of events. The changes in America were pretty astounding but the focus is the American South. During The Rise of Industrial America there were five sub-eras: Development in the West, Populism and Agrarian Discontent, The Gilded
During the sub-era of Jim Crow and the Great Migration there was the Compromise of 1877, which was on March 2, 1877. It meant the end of the Reconstruction and the beginning of a more progressive era. It guaranteed the removal of federal troops from the South in exchange for delivering the election to Rutherford Hayes from Samuel Tilden. On April 24, 1877 the troops withdrawn from the South. In 1890 the Second Mississippi Plan was created which was the South’s attempts to disfranchise African Americans. The Atlanta Exposition was on September 18, 1895, “Washington delivered a speech that made clear his dreams and desires for all African-American citizens” (Clark 143). On October 7, 1908 the Georgia Disfranchisement Amendment, “the disfranchisement of African Americans throughout most of the South was completed with this amendment of the Georgia constitution” (GLIAM). In 1913 the government became segregated. From May 10, 1919 to October 3, 1919, in history it is called the Red Summer. The Red summer is referring to bloody race riots that exploded in a number of cities in both the North and
On June 29, 1906 the Hepburn Act was passed to clarify and increase the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission over railroads and certain other types of transportation. It allowed the commission choose the maximum rates and enforce uniform systems of accounts. The case of Muller v. Oregon was on March 24, 1908, it promotes the health and welfare of female workers and it will later lead to additional protective legislation that was detrimental to equality in the workplace. On June 25, 1910 the Mann Act, also known as the White Slave Tariff Act, was passed, it deals with prostitution and child pornography. It was used to prosecute men who took women across state lines for consensual sex. On February 3, 1913 the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified that allows the Congress to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without potion among several states and without regard to any census or catalog. On April 8, 1913 the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified that says that “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.” (Constitution). On October 3, 1913 the Underwood Tariff Act was passed to reduce