The Progressive Era In Depth

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Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for inventing the first working telephone in 1875. The Bell Telephone Company would be the foundation for today’s AT&T.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson gained congressional passage of the Indian Removal Act which by 1837 had forced some 46,000 Native Americans from their homeland to free up 25 million acres for resettlement by European immigrants.

Huey Long was the youngest Louisiana governor who narrowly escaped impeachment after being accused of nepotism, bribery and even murder. Long was assassinated on September 10th, 1935.

After gold attracted Euro-American miners to Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho lands, chief Red Cloud turned to guerrilla-style attacks in what would become Red Cloud’s War, which ended in the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.

The USS Indianapolis successfully delivered the Uranium 235 needed in the atomic weapons used against Japan before Japanese submarines sank the vessel, ultimately leaving 317 of the nearly 1,200 men having survived 4-days of treachery at sea.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer who rose to popularity during the Roaring 20s. His marriage to Zelda Sayre would end because of his alcoholism and her schizophrenia before his early death at the age of 44.

The Weimar Republic was a post-WWI Germany that defaulted on its foreign debts, leading to hyperinflation and ultimately a rise in nationalism and Hitler’s ascension to power.