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Lincoln Steffens, author of hard-hitting expos accent(e)s on big-city political machines, was a progressive investigative journalist of the kind labeled by Theodore Roosevelt.
Labor leader ran for president several times on the Socialist party ticket during the Progressive Era.
Stricter building codes and factory-inspection laws resulted from the tragic fire at the factory in 1911.
In the case of , the "Brandeis brief" presented the Supreme Court with economic and sociological data demonstrating that long working hours were dangerous to women and to society.
The Consumers' League, headed by , was probably the most effective women's organization of the Progressive Era.
Progressives successfully gained the adoption of the Amendment calling for popular election of U.S. senators.
In the 1902 case, President Roosevelt invoked the Sherman Antitrust Act to force the dissolution of a railroad monopoly.
The 1905 Act made the Interstate Commerce Commission a more effective regulatory agency by granting it the authority to set maximum railroad rates
Socialist Upton Sinclair's novel exposed the grisly and unhealthy conditions in America's meatpacking industry.
In the 1910 -Pinchot controversy, President Taft made himself unpopular with conservation-minded progressives by firing the nation's chief forester.
In 1912, offered the New Nationalism and the regulation of big business as his platform for election to the presidency.
In 1912, a split in the Republican party resulted in Theodore Roosevelt being the candidate of a third-party movement, the party.
The Democratic presidential candidate in 1912, Woodrow Wilson, in a platform he called the , promised to use the power of the federal government to destroy monopolies and restore competition to the economy.
In 1909, a group of white liberals and black leaders in the Niagra Movement founded the (type initials) to combat racial discrimination.
"Big Bill" Haywood led the , a strongly anticapitalist labor union organized in 1905 that sought basic change in America's middle-class society.