1. Politics, Populists, and Progressives
James A. Henretta
Eric Hinderaker
Rebecca Edwards
Robert O. Self
America’s History Eighth Edition America: A Concise History Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 20
Whose Government?
Politics, Populists, and Progressives
1880–1917
Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

2. I. Reform Visions, 1880–1892
A. Electoral Politics After Reconstruction 1. Close Elections 2. New Initiatives

5. I. Reform Visions, 1880–1892
A. Electoral Politics After Reconstruction (cont.)
3. Republican Activism

6. I. Reform Visions, 1880–1892
B. The Populist Program 1. Origins and agenda 2. Supporters 6

8. II. The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
A. Depression and Reaction 1. Economic Crises of the 1890s 2. Coxey’s Army

9. II. The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
B. Democrats and the “Solid South” 1. The People’s Party in the South 2. Disfranchisement 9

11. II. The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
C. New National Realities 1. William Jennings Bryan 2. Marcus Hanna 3. New limits

14. III. Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912
A. Theodore Roosevelt as President 1. Antitrust Legislation 2. Environmental Conservation 3. Roosevelt’s Legacies

16. III. Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912
B. Diverse Progressive Goals 1. Protecting the Poor 2. The Birth of Modern Civil Rights 16

17. III. Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912 B. Diverse Progressive Goals (cont.)
3. The Problem of Labor

19. III. Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912
C. The Election of Roosevelt’s new nationalism 2. Eugene V. Debs and socialism 3. Woodrow Wilson

21. IV. Wilson and the New Freedom, 1913–1917
A. Economic Reforms 1. Democrats 2. Federal Reserve Act of 1913 21

24. IV. Wilson and the New Freedom, 1913–1917
A. Economic Reforms (cont.)
3. Trusts
4. Investigating Labor

25. IV. Wilson and the New Freedom, 1913–1917
B. Progressive Legacies 1. Limitations 2. Achievements