Transformations of the Progressive Era

The Progressive Era completely transformed America in just two decades. It started in 1902

when Teddy Roosevelt went full trust buster mode, taking down railroad monopolies that

controlled the entire Northwest. But things got messy by 1912 when the Republican Party

literally split in half over how much change was too much change. Meanwhile,

the Supreme Court's Plessy decision legalized segregation, making life brutal for African Americans.

This sparked the creation of the NAACP in 1909, with Du Bois launching The Crisis magazine

to fight back. By 1920, women finally won the vote with the 19th Amendment.

America went from monopolies and segregation to women's suffrage and civil rights activism in less