The Progressive Era

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The Progressive Era
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Reasons for the Progressive Era

• Industrialization
• Growing cities
• Influx of Immigrants
• Rise of Managerial Class
• Economic Depression

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The Reformers

• Muckrakers
• Lincoln Steffens
• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• The Social gospel
• Charles Sheldon
• 2nd Great Awakening
• Social Work
• Jane Addams
• Other progressives
• Louis D. Brandeis
• Herbert Croly

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Ida Tarbell
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Hull House
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The Professionals

• New Middle Class
• AMA
• Professional Bar Associations
• National Association of Manufacturing

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The Working Classes

• Union Labor Party

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Women Reformers in the Progressive Era
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The Progressive Women

• New Professions-Dispelling the separate sphere
  myth
• Education
• Social reform clubs
• Temperance Movement
• Womens Christian Temperance Union
• Frances Willard
• Anti-Saloon League
• 18th Amendment
• Child labor laws

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The Suffrage Movement

• NAWSA
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• NWP
• Alice Paul
• ERA
• 19th Amendment

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Other Women Reformers

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Margaret Sanger

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Susan B. Anthony
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Margaret Sanger
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Women and Reform

• The New Woman
• Socioeconomic Origins of the New Woman
• Boston Marriages

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Women and Reform

• The Clubwomen
• GFWC

The Colored Womens League of Washington (Library
of Congress)
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Government Reformers

• Municipal Level
• City commissions
• City managers
• State Level
• Robert M. LaFollette
• Direct primary
• Competitive civil service restrictions on
  lobbying
• Election reforms
• Political Bosses
• Charles Francis Murphy

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Robert LaFollette
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The Educational Reformers

• John Dewey
• Charles Eliot
• Womens colleges
• Increased enrollment

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Racial anti-discrimination efforts

• W.E.B. DuBois
• NAACP

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Crusades for Social Order and Reform

• Immigration Restriction
• Eugenics and Nativism

Total Immigration, 1900-1920
Sources of Immigration, 1900-1920
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Challenging the Capitalist Order

• Decentralization and Regulation
• The Problem of Corporate Centralization
• Good Trusts and Bad Trusts

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The Socialist Party

• Eugene Debs
• IWW
• William Haywood

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Eugene Debs
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The Assassination of William McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
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Rise to Presidency

• Square Deal
• Governmental Policy
• Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
• Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Upton Sinclair
• Meat Inspection Act
• Labor reform
• Newlands Reclamation Act
• Panic of 1907
• Tennessee Coal Iron Co.

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Foreign Policy

• speak softly, but carry a big stick
• civilized vs uncivilized nations
• The new American Navy
• Japan
• Venezuela
• Russo-Japanese War
• Nobel Peace Prize of 1906
• Roosevelt Corollary
• Platt Amendment
• Panama Canal
• John Hay
• Philippe Bunau-Varilla

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Blasting at Panama
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William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft (1909-1913)

• Rise to Presidency
• Governmental Policy
• Payne-Aldrich Tariff
• Department of the Interior Scandal
• Richard A. Ballinger
• The New Nationalism
• Rise of the Democratic Party
• The Progressive Party
• Foreign Policy
• Dollar Diplomacy

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Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

• Rise to Presidency
• New Freedom
• Governmental Policy
• Underwood-Simmons Act
• 16th Amendment
• The Federal Reserve Act
• Federal Trade Commission
• Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• Keating-Owen Act
• Smith-Lever Act

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Wilsons Foreign Policy

• Dominican Republic
• Haiti
• Virgin Islands
• Nicaragua
• Mexico
• Victoriano Huerta
• U.S.S. Dolphin
• Venustiuno Carranza
• Pancho Villa
• General John J. Pershing

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Progressive Cons

• Materialism
• Confusing goals
• The Court system
• Government influenced by industry
• World War I

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Progressive Pros

• Trustbusting
• Legislation
• Income Tax
• Broadening public awareness