#Progressive-Era
Events indexed under #Progressive-Era — 54 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1919-11-10 | Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice Louis Brandeis · Jacob Abrams | confirmed | |
| 1919-03-03 | Schenck v. United States: Supreme Court Creates 'Clear and Present Danger' Test, Upholds Espionage Act Convictions Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Charles Schenck · Socialist Party of America | confirmed | |
| 1918-09-14 | Eugene V. Debs Sentenced to Ten Years for Antiwar Speech, Runs for President from Prison Eugene V. Debs · Socialist Party of America · President Woodrow Wilson · Judge David C. Westenhaver | confirmed | |
| 1918-06-03 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart U.S. Supreme Court · Justice William R. Day · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1918-05-16 | Sedition Act of 1918 Expands Espionage Act to Criminalize Anti-Government Speech U.S. Congress · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. Postmaster General | confirmed | |
| 1917-12-10 | Hitchman Coal v. Mitchell: Supreme Court Authorizes Injunctions to Enforce Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Mahlon Pitney · United Mine Workers of America · Hitchman Coal and Coke Company | confirmed | |
| 1917-11-05 | Buchanan v. Warley: Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Zoning, Property Rights Trump Civil Rights Supreme Court of the United States · NAACP · Moorfield Storey · Louisville, Kentucky | confirmed | |
| 1917-08-01 | Frank Little Lynched: IWW Executive Board Member Murdered by Vigilantes in Butte Frank Little · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Butte vigilantes | confirmed | |
| 1917-07-12 | Bisbee Deportation: Phelps Dodge and Vigilantes Illegally Deport 1,300 Striking Miners Phelps Dodge Corporation · Walter Douglas · Sheriff Harry Wheeler · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-08 | Speculator Mine Fire Kills 168 Workers: Anaconda Safety Failures Trigger Butte Strike and Repression Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Metal Mine Workers' Union · Montana National Guard | confirmed | |
| 1917-04-13 | Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine President Woodrow Wilson · George Creel · Secretary of State Robert Lansing · Secretary of War Newton Baker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1916-11-05 | Everett Massacre: Lumber Company Vigilantes Kill IWW Members at City Dock Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Everett Commercial Club · Sheriff Donald McRae · Weyerhaeuser Company | confirmed | |
| 1916-09-03 | Adamson Act Establishes Eight-Hour Workday for Railroad Workers President Woodrow Wilson · Representative William C. Adamson · Railroad Labor Brotherhoods · Austin B. Garretson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1916-09-01 | Keating-Owen Child Labor Act Passed, First Federal Child Labor Restriction U.S. Congress · President Woodrow Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1915-01-25 | Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre John D. Rockefeller Jr. · Frank Walsh · Commission on Industrial Relations · Colorado Fuel and Iron Company | confirmed | |
| 1914-10-15 | Clayton Antitrust Act Signed: Labor Unions Exempted from Antitrust Laws, Gompers Calls It Labor's Magna Carta President Woodrow Wilson · Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. · Samuel Gompers · American Federation of Labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1914-09-26 | Wilson Signs Federal Trade Commission Act, Creating Expert Antitrust Enforcement Agency Woodrow Wilson · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1914-04-20 | Ludlow Massacre - National Guard Attacks Striking Miners, Kills 21 Including Women and Children Colorado National Guard · Colorado Fuel and Iron Company · United Mine Workers of America · John D. Rockefeller Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1913-12-23 | Federal Reserve Act Creates Central Banking System: Wilson Signs Compromise Between Private Bank Control and Government Oversight President Woodrow Wilson · Carter Glass · Robert Latham Owen · JP Morgan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1913-10-03 | Underwood Tariff Slashes Corporate Protection, Establishes Modern Income Tax After 16th Amendment President Woodrow Wilson · Oscar Underwood · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 1913-08-03 | Wheatland Hop Riot: IWW Farmworkers Protest Conditions, Deputies Kill Four, Leaders Framed Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Blackie Ford · Herman Suhr · Ralph Durst · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1913-04-11 | Wilson Administration Segregates Federal Government: Jim Crow Comes to Washington President Woodrow Wilson · Postmaster General Albert Burleson · Treasury Secretary William McAdoo · NAACP · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1913-04-08 | 17th Amendment Ratified: Direct Election of Senators Ends State Legislature Appointments and Deadlock Corruption Connecticut State Legislature · U.S. Congress · Progressive Movement | confirmed | |
| 1913-04-01 | JP Morgan Dies in Rome: House of Morgan Partners Blame Pujo Committee Testimony Stress JP Morgan · Pujo Committee · Samuel Untermyer · House of Morgan | confirmed | |
| 1913-02-25 | Paterson Silk Strike: IWW Leads 25,000 Workers in Five-Month Struggle Against Textile Manufacturers Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Big Bill Haywood · Elizabeth Gurley Flynn · Carlo Tresca · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1913-02-03 | 16th Amendment Ratified: Federal Income Tax Established to Shift Burden from Middle Class to Wealthy Delaware State Legislature · Philander C. Knox · U.S. Congress · Progressive Movement | confirmed | |
| 1912-08-07 | Theodore Roosevelt Forms Bull Moose Party After GOP Convention Theft: Republican Split Ensures Wilson Victory Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Progressive Party · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1912-05-16 | Pujo Committee Hearings Begin: Money Trust Investigation Exposes JP Morgan Control of $22 Billion Through 341 Interlocking Directorships Arsène Pujo · Samuel Untermyer · JP Morgan · George F. Baker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1912-04-18 | Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Mine War: West Virginia Declares Martial Law, Mother Jones Imprisoned United Mine Workers of America · Mary Harris Jones · Governor William Glasscock · Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1912-01-12 | Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Strike: IWW Unites 20,000 Workers Across 51 Nationalities, Wins 15% Raise Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Joseph Ettor · Arturo Giovannitti · American Woolen Company | confirmed | |
| 1911-02-24 | Buck's Stove Case: Gompers, Mitchell, Morrison Sentenced for Contempt, Boycotts Criminalized Samuel Gompers · John Mitchell · Frank Morrison · American Federation of Labor · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1911-01-16 | Aldrich Plan for Banking Reform Submitted: Secret Jekyll Island Meeting Proposes Wall Street-Controlled Central Bank Nelson Aldrich · JP Morgan interests · Paul Warburg · Frank Vanderlip · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1910-06-18 | Mann-Elkins Act Strengthens Railroad Regulation, Expands ICC Authority to Telecommunications President William Howard Taft · Stephen Benton Elkins · James Robert Mann · Interstate Commerce Commission | confirmed | |
| 1910-03-19 | Insurgent Republicans Revolt Against Speaker Cannon: 29-Hour Session Strips Autocratic Powers, Splits GOP Joseph Cannon · George William Norris · President William Howard Taft · Progressive Republicans | confirmed | |
| 1909-08-05 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff Betrays Progressive Promises: Taft Praises "Best Tariff Bill," Splits Republican Party President William Howard Taft · Nelson Aldrich · Progressive Republicans · Old Guard Republicans | confirmed | |
| 1909-03-04 | Roosevelt Leaves Office After 44 Antitrust Suits, Revealing Progressive Era Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · J.P. Morgan · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1908-02-24 | Muller v. Oregon: Brandeis Brief Upholds Women's Labor Protections Using Paternalistic Reasoning Supreme Court of the United States · Louis Brandeis · Curt Muller · Oregon Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1908-01-27 | Adair v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice John Marshall Harlan · William Adair · Louisville and Nashville Railroad | confirmed | |
| 1907-11-02 | Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · Elbert H. Gary · Henry Clay Frick · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1907-07-19 | Roosevelt Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against American Tobacco Trust Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Justice · American Tobacco Company · James Buchanan Duke | confirmed | |
| 1906-06-30 | Roosevelt Signs Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act Theodore Roosevelt · Harvey Washington Wiley · Upton Sinclair · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1906-06-29 | Roosevelt Signs Hepburn Act Creating First True Federal Regulatory Agency Theodore Roosevelt · Representative William Hepburn · Interstate Commerce Commission · Railroad companies · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1906-02-26 | Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors Upton Sinclair · Doubleday · Appeal to Reason | confirmed | |
| 1905-04-17 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Labor Protections in Lochner v. New York U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Rufus Peckham · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice John Harlan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1905-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Against Beef Trust, Establishes Stream of Commerce Doctrine U.S. Supreme Court · Swift & Company · Armour & Company · Theodore Roosevelt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1904-03-14 | Supreme Court Orders Northern Securities Dissolution in First Major Antitrust Victory U.S. Supreme Court · Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1904-01-01 | Lincoln Steffens Publishes "The Shame of the Cities" Exposing Municipal Corruption Lincoln Steffens · McClure's Magazine | confirmed | |
| 1903-02-19 | Roosevelt Signs Elkins Act Prohibiting Railroad Rebates and Price Discrimination Theodore Roosevelt · Senator Stephen B. Elkins · Interstate Commerce Commission · Pennsylvania Railroad · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1903-02-14 | Roosevelt Creates Bureau of Corporations and Department of Commerce and Labor Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · George B. Cortelyou · James Rudolph Garfield · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1902-11-01 | Ida Tarbell Begins "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's Magazine Ida Tarbell · McClure's Magazine · Standard Oil Company · John D. Rockefeller | confirmed | |
| 1902-10-03 | Roosevelt Intervenes in Coal Strike as Neutral Arbitrator, Origins of Square Deal Theodore Roosevelt · John Mitchell · J.P. Morgan · Elihu Root · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1902-05-12 | Anthracite Coal Strike Begins in Pennsylvania, 147,000 Miners Walk Out United Mine Workers · John Mitchell · Theodore Roosevelt · Railroad companies · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1902-05-01 | Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against Beef Trust Monopoly Theodore Roosevelt · Attorney General Philander Knox · Swift & Company · Armour & Company · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1902-02-19 | Roosevelt Announces Northern Securities Antitrust Suit Against J.P. Morgan Railroad Trust Theodore Roosevelt · Attorney General Philander Knox · J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · +2 | confirmed |