The Progressive Era Chapter 21
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
National Consumers’ League
Progressive Intellectuals Croly, James, and Veblen
Reforming Schools – John Dewey
The Supreme Court "General proposition do not decide concrete cases." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Muckrakers Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, and Frank Norris
“Ashcan School” Lewis Hine
Local Reformers Hazen Pingree and Toledo, Ohio – where Samuel Jones led as reform mayor Dayton, Ohio – where the floods occurred
State Reformers La Follette and Samuel Gompers
Progressive Cities - Beautification
Mann Act (1910) A red light district
Eugenics
Racism during Progressive Era
The NAACP W.E.B. Du Bois
Women’s Suffrage and New “Sphere” Alice Hamilton
Worker Unions and Socialism
Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt and his Rough Riders on San Juan Hill
Election of 1904
Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
Conservation Efforts Gifford Pinchot and John Muir
Election of 1908
William Howard Taft
Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve Act
Acts for Workers Eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and service, be deemed a day's work and the measure of standard of a day's work for the purpose of reckoning the compensation for services of all employees
Louis Brandeis
Election of 1916