Important people
Jacob Riis |
Jacob Riis, a police reporter whose work appeared in several New York newspapers, documented the living and working conditions of the poor. Through articles, books, photography, and lantern-slide lectures, Riis served as a mediator between working-class, middle-class, and upper-class citizens.
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Herbert croly |
He was an intellectual reader of the progressive movement as an editor, and political philosopher and a co-founder of the magazine “The New Republic”. This influenced many leading progressives including Theodore Roosevelt. In his book “Progressive Democracy”, Herbert rejected the thesis that the liberal tradition in the United States was inhospitable alternatives. He reclaimed an idea that Progressives had allowed to lapse, That working for wages was a lesser form of liberty. Croly argued that America's liberal promise could be redeemed only by syndicalist reforms involving workplace democracy.
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jOHN DEWEY |
The “father” of progressive education, published “The school and Society” (1899) to suggest the need for an education that was practical and useful. He insisted that education should be child centered and that schools should build character, teach good citizenship, and be instruments of social reform.
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Upton Sinclair
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He was an American author and one-time candidate for governor of California who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. Upton Sinclair is best remembered for his novel The Jungle, the 1906 muckraking expose of labor and sanitary conditions in the Chicago stockyards.
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WEB Du Bois
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He was an American socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. He helped start the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which is founded on the beliefs that nonviolent protests and legal action were the best way to achieve equal rights for blacks and white.
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Joseph G. cannon |
He was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. This man was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was widely consider to be the most dominant Speaker in the United States. He had such control over the house he could often control debate. Cannon is the second-longest continuously serving Republican Speaker in history.
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Important Events
Women's right
States started to give women the right to vote in some elections.
19th Amendment- gave women political rights.
Women, as a result of industrialization, began to gain importance in the workplace and in the public sphere. Through the creation of women clubs, women also began to create a sphere for themselves. Women became the driving force of the reform/progressive era, some say due to their maternal role in society, but nevertheless they help orchestrated the movement that transformed the character of society and the nature of American politics.
19th Amendment- gave women political rights.
Women, as a result of industrialization, began to gain importance in the workplace and in the public sphere. Through the creation of women clubs, women also began to create a sphere for themselves. Women became the driving force of the reform/progressive era, some say due to their maternal role in society, but nevertheless they help orchestrated the movement that transformed the character of society and the nature of American politics.
Progressive Party
“Bull Moose” Party
Began with Roosevelt in 1911, while campaigning for the 1912 election. He was a conservative progressive, but failed to win the republican primary to Taft. As a result, he formed the Progressive party, and ran in the election.
Importance: Shows the public support for the progressive ideology. As state and city governments were following progressive ideals, and it only seemed logical to form a political party based on these concepts.
Began with Roosevelt in 1911, while campaigning for the 1912 election. He was a conservative progressive, but failed to win the republican primary to Taft. As a result, he formed the Progressive party, and ran in the election.
Importance: Shows the public support for the progressive ideology. As state and city governments were following progressive ideals, and it only seemed logical to form a political party based on these concepts.
The square deal
Roosevelt sought reelection in 1904, and passed very passive acts that would satisfy both sides of American politics.
Hepburn Act (1906)- Strengthened the Interstate Commerce, giving them the power to regulate railroads in the west.
Pure Food Act (1906)- eliminated many diseases carried by impure meat, and bettered working conditions for workers in factories.
Drug Act (1906)- Banned dangerous or ineffective medicines that were not prescribed for medical purposes.
Importance: Showed the American public that “everyone” would be represented under Roosevelt’s policies, that both the employers and the employees will have equal voice. Also widened the divide in the Republican party between the progressives and the conservatives(Old Guard).
Hepburn Act (1906)- Strengthened the Interstate Commerce, giving them the power to regulate railroads in the west.
Pure Food Act (1906)- eliminated many diseases carried by impure meat, and bettered working conditions for workers in factories.
Drug Act (1906)- Banned dangerous or ineffective medicines that were not prescribed for medical purposes.
Importance: Showed the American public that “everyone” would be represented under Roosevelt’s policies, that both the employers and the employees will have equal voice. Also widened the divide in the Republican party between the progressives and the conservatives(Old Guard).
Panic of 1907
It was a financial crisis that occurred in the United States when the New York Stock Exchange fell almost 50% from its peak the previous year Panic occurred, as this was during a time of economic recession and there were numerous runs on banks and trust companies. The 1907 panic eventually spread throughout the nation when many state and local banks and businesses entered bankruptcy `
Federal reserve act
It's an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollars). How banking is.
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"In 2008 we will usher in a new Progressive Era built upon a foundation of Social justice and environmental harmony that will create an equal and sustainable society based on empathy and responsibility fr self and others in a time of unrivaled freedom and prosperity for all.”
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