Modern U.S. History Lecture

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Modern U.S. HistoryLecture 7

• The Progressive Era 1901-1917

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Themes

• Progressives addressed the problems caused by
  industrialization urbanization.
• Progressivism started at the grassroots and then
  spread to the local, state, and national levels.
• Reform led to new uses of government to regulate
  the economy.

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Pragmatism

• Flexibility in philosophy.
• Try an idea and if doesnt work, try something
  else.
• The opposite of dogmatism.

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Thorstein Veblen
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John Dewey
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Jane Addams

• What was Jane Addamss background? What was Hull
  House?
• Why did Addams oppose the theater? What does her
  opposition tell you about the sensibilities?
• Why did she believe that some kind of wholesome
  recreation was necessary?

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Robert La Follette
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Margaret Sanger
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Theodore Roosevelt
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