Transcript Wetta #10 Progressive Movement 3000

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Topic 10
1890s-1920s
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Unregulated capitalism
Corruption in city, state, and federal
governments
Poverty in American cities
Consumer protection
Environmental protection
Search for order in a changing America
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Economic Reform
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Moral Reform
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Political Reform
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Urban Middle Class Reformers
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Journalists and Writers – “muckrakers”
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Political Leaders
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Farm and Labor Supporters
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Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones – Mayor of Toledo
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Robert La Follette – Governor of Wisconsin
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Hiram Johnson – Governor of California
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Teddy Roosevelt – President of US (1901-1909)
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Woodrow Wilson – President of US (1913-1921)
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Jacob Riis, How the Other
Half Lives
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Ida Tarbell, History of the
Standard Oil Company
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Frank Norris, The Octopus
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Lincoln Stevens, Shame of
the Cities
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Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
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Thomas Nast, cartoonist
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Secret Ballot
Initiative
Victorian Moral code
Referendum
Americanization of immigrants
Government ownership
of utilities
End to child labor
Recall
Direct
Primary
Prohibition
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Federal Reserve Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Amendments: 16th,17th,18th,19th
Woman suffrage
Report on Child Labor in Mississippi, 1911
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Populist Movement
Progressive Movement
New Deal
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Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914
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Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
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Elisabeth Israels Perry and Karen Manners Smith, eds. The Gilded
Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion
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Robert. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920
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The New York Tenement Museum website:
http://www.tenement.org/