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The Progressive Era, 1900-1916
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An Urban Age and a Consumer Society
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The Rise of the City YearUrban Population (Percentage) Number of Cities with 100,000+ population 188020%12 189028%15 190038%18 191050%21 192068%26
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The Muckrakers Lincoln Steffens Ida Tarbell Upton Sinclair
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The Immigrant
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The Working Woman YearAll WomenMarried WomenWomen as % of Labor Force 190020.4%5.6%18% 191025.210.724 192023.39.024 193024.311.725 Occupation19001920 Professional, Technical8.2%11.7% Clerical4.018.7 Sales Workers4.36.2 Unskilled and Semiskilled manufacturing 23.720.2 Household Workers28.715.7
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The New Standard of Living and Consumer Culture
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Components of Progressive America
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Industrial FreedomSocialismAFL and IWW (Labor)Feminism
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Eugene Debs
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IWW
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Isadora Duncan
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Emma Goldman
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Margaret Sanger
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Progressive Politics
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State and Local Reforms Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones Robert M. LaFollette
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Jane Addams and Hull House Jane Adams Ellen Gates Starr
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Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Progressive Presidents
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Theodore Roosevelt, 1901- 1908
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Election of 1904
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John Muir and President Roosevelt in Yosemite, 1903
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Election of 1908
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William Howard Taft, 1908- 1912
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Election of 1912 1912 Presidential Election Results Strong third-party challenges from the Progressive Party and Socialists split the national vote four ways, but Democrat Wilson prevailed to win the presidency in 1912.
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Woodrow Wilson, 1912- 1920
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Wilson Progressivism LegislationDatePurpose Underwood Tariff1913Reduced duties on foreign imports so that small businesses could thrive Clayton Act1914Exempted labor unions from anti-trust laws Keating Own Act1916Outlawed child labor in the manufacture of goods sold in interstate commerce Federal Reserve Act1913Federally run institution that issued currency, set rates for loans, and held funds in reserve for crisis situations Federal Trade Commission1914Had the power to order companies to cease unfair trading practices Income Taxes1913Started with richest 5% to offset revenue of lowering tariff. Made constitutional by 16 th Amendment
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