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    The document summarizes key aspects of the Progressive Era in the United States around the early 1900s. It describes the progressive mindset of improving society through active problem solving. Sources of progressive ideals included books advocating for social reforms. Muckrakers exposed issues through investigative journalism. Women progressives helped coordinate charity work. Settlement houses provided community services to the poor. The suffrage movement gained momentum through the work of activists. Other reforms addressed labor issues, civil rights, and trust-busting through antitrust laws.

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    The document summarizes key aspects of the Progressive Era in the United States around the early 1900s. It describes the progressive mindset of improving society through active problem solving. Sources of progressive ideals included books advocating for social reforms. Muckrakers exposed issues through investigative journalism. Women progressives helped coordinate charity work. Settlement houses provided community services to the poor. The suffrage movement gained momentum through the work of activists. Other reforms addressed labor issues, civil rights, and trust-busting through antitrust laws.

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    The document summarizes key aspects of the Progressive Era in the United States around the early 1900s. It describes the progressive mindset of improving society through active problem solving. Sources of progressive ideals included books advocating for social reforms. Muckrakers exposed issues through investigative journalism. Women progressives helped coordinate charity work. Settlement houses provided community services to the poor. The suffrage movement gained momentum through the work of activists. Other reforms addressed labor issues, civil rights, and trust-busting through antitrust laws.

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    Chapter 20: The Progressive Era Progressivism- accepted the concept of widespread , many sided sided fort after

    r 1900 to build a better society What was the progressive mind? Faith in academics Wisconsin state university= key for Governor Robert La Follett- reform administration Resist ways of thinking that didnt agree with purposeful action Pragmatism- judged ideas by their consequences Thought philosophy = solving problems

    What were sources of progressive idealism? Thought they were strong minded and could make anything happen Progress and Poverty (1879) henry George Looking backwards 1888- Edward Bellamy Lots of ideals found in American radical tradition Baptist cleric Walter Rauschenbush- ideas forged by ministry in Hells Kitchen NYC

    Who were the muckrakers? Reform journalism New magazines in 1890s- Colliers and McClures Exposed all the bad things going on in the American society. Many were appalled by what these people were doing

    Women progressives Many were the housekeeping middle class women Helped charity organizations coordinate private relief, meeting with needy families and assessing problems Josephine Lowell 1890 New York Consumers League in 1890 Muller vs Oregon decision in 1908- Oregon law limited the workday for women to ten hours What were settlement houses? Beg. Was the hull house established by Jane Adams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889

    Served as community center worked by middle class people Meeting rooms, art gallery, clubs for kids, Adams worked towards garbage removal, playgrounds, better street lighting etc What started the revival of the suffrage movement? Jane Addams and Florence Kelley Encouraged working class women to help themselves 1903- National Womens Trade Union League started by social reformers- led by the wealthy supporters, and organized by women workers Strikes and trained working class women Alice Paul advocated an amendment that gave women everywhere the right to vote Feminism Young educated self supporting women didnt want to be constrained by society Breaking into the house meeting NY 1914- called themselves feminists Feminism- freedom for full personal development Pro suffrage Right to vote Margaret Sanger devoted to the cause of birth control- many women dying from abortion

    La Follette Political Reformer Robert M. La Follette Started as politician but became a reformer Won as governor of Wisconsin- high taxes for corporations strict utility and RR regulation Deny the bosses the power to choose the partys candidate What was urban liberalism? NYS Factory commission developed a reform program of labor reform over 4 yrs 56 fire hazard laws, unsafe machines industrial hw, and wages and hours women and children All this was after the triangle shirtwaist factory Organized labor

    American Federation of Labor- opposed state interference in labors affairs Samuel Gompers- workers shouldnt form govt what they got through economic power and self help voluntarism Danbury Hatters case in 1908- Supreme court declared a boycott vy Hatters union against antiunion DE Loewe & Company The Civil Rights Struggle Revived William Monroe Trotter editor of Boston Guardian = key Niagara Movement resulted from meeting an impact more than scattering of members and local bodies it organized Rights of African American Full political and civil equality What was trust busting? Roosevelt created the Bureau of Corporations to investigate business practices and bolseter the Justice Dept. powere to antitrust suits Roosevelt won against Democratic Judge Alton B. Parker Believed that firms who abused power should receive punishment Sherman Act- court got to decide if an act in restraint of trade was unreasonable as excessive and harmful Trans-Missouri decision of 1897 What was the square deal? 1904- Roosevelts program Dramatized issues,

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