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	The Progressive Era by William L. Anderson
		Progressives also secured the right of women to vote and ended the state legislatures’ stranglehold on the national electoral process by mandating the direct election of U.S. senators (which until 1913 were chosen by state legislatures).
		Socially, the Progressives were humanitarians who sought to better the lives of ordinary people, with their greatest “triumph” being passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, which ushered in the era of Prohibition.
		Progressives reasoned that fls were not as far “evolved” as whites and, thus, should not be given the same rights and responsibilities.
	www.lewrockwell.com /anderson/anderson132.html (3790 words)

	The Progressive Era and the Family by Murray N. Rothbard
		While the "Progressive Era" used to be narrowly designated as the period 1900–1914, historians now realize that the period is really much broader, stretching from the latter decades of the nineteenth century into the early 1920s.
		The broader period marks an era in which the entire American polity — from economics to urban planning to medicine to social work to the licensing of professions to the ideology of intellectuals — was transformed from a roughly laissez-faire system based on individual rights to one of state planning and control.
		The individual, these "progressives" believed, must be molded by the educational process to conform to the group, which in practice meant the dictates of the power elite speaking in the group's name.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard28.html (9322 words)

	The Progressive Era
		Progressives lived mainly in the cities, were college educated, and believed that government could be a tool for change.
		TR believed that strong corporations were good for America, but he also believed that corporate behavior must be watched to ensure that corporate greed did not get out of hand (trust-busting and federal regulation of business).
		Teaching Resources of the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
	www.nps.gov /archive/elro/glossary/progressive-era.htm (392 words)

	Articles: Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Era, 1901-1908 - Historical Text Archive
		Progressives saw the corporations corrupting politics and proposed various means of stopping it.
		Progressives tried to mandate adequate working conditions for lower class women believing that this would keep them out of prostitution.
		Progressives were pragmatic optimists but real radicalism also flourished.
	www.historicaltextarchive.com /sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=598 (1392 words)

	Progressive Humanism
		T he Bush administration is playing with fire and is more likely to blow the region up than to usher in a new era.
		I argue that it is the progressive enlargement of the society with which the individual identifies.
		The Progressive Humanist notes that these are our roots, and out of them we have forged the human qualities we value.
	www.progressivehumanism.com /proghum.html (2644 words)

	Teacher Resources - Feature - American Memory Timeline: New Era
		The early 20th century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States.
		The progressives, as they called themselves, worked to make American society a better and safer place in which to live.
		The 1920s, also known as the "roaring twenties" and as "the new era," were similar to the Progressive Era in that America continued its economic growth and prosperity.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/timeline/progress/progress.html (292 words)

	People, Places, Politics, and Social Movements of the Progressive Era
		While historians may debate the exact boundaries of the Progressive Era, it seems clear that the stream of “New” ideas, innovations, and movements flowing through institutional and cultural landscapes around the turn of the last century reshaped the waterways of culture and society.
		In the most general terms, the Progressive Era was characterized by attempts to embrace, accommodate, reach a new balance with, or fight against life in an increasingly urban, industrial, routinized, and multiethnic environment.
		Progressive Era America was a society in transition.
	www.publichistory.org /reviews/view_issue.asp?IssueNumber=9 (4103 words)

	Women and The Progressive Era --National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		The decades between 1890 and 1920 constituted a period of such vital reform activity that historians have dubbed them "the Progressive era." In this age, millions of Americans organized in voluntary associations to devise solutions to the myriad problems created by industrialization, urbanization, and immigration.
		Although many of these wildly energetic reformers united in the Progressive party of 1912--with Theodore Roosevelt as their presidential candidate--progressivism was not a single movement but a collection of coalitions agitating for changes that often seemed to contradict each other.
		Progressive reformers created many institutions and policies that we accept as a natural part of our national life today, and progressive reform was unimaginable without the participation of women.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/prog.htm (536 words)

	Progressive Movement
		The Progressive Era is a label applied to rather broad and sometime disparate attempts in the period from the 1900 through the end of World War I in 1918 to address economic and social reform.
		Progressives also successfully lobbied for the direct election of U.S. senators by the voters enacted through the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified in 1913, replacing the former system by which members of the Senate were elected by each state legislature.
		Progressive principles were evident, however, in the moralism that Wilson brought to the larger issues of world conflict and human rights, such as his idealistic call for the creation of a world body to mediate and prevent future wars.
	www.eagleton.rutgers.edu /e-gov/e-politicalarchive-Progressive.htm (3041 words)

	Progressive Era Reforms - Table - MSN Encarta
		Progressive Era Reforms - Table - MSN Encarta
		During the early 20th century, progressive reformers tried to combat problems such as dangerous working conditions and unsafe products that arose from industrialization and urbanization.
		This table highlights some of the major federal legislative reforms passed during the progressive era.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461570497/Progressive_Era_Reforms.html (272 words)

	The Progressive Movement
		The Progressive Movement was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century.
		Progressives never spoke with one mind and differed sharply over the most effective means to deal with the ills generated by the trusts; some favored an activist approach to trust-busting, others preferred a regulatory approach.
		The Progressive spirit also was evident in new amendments added to the Constitution, which provided for a new means to elect senators, protect society through prohibition and extend suffrage to women.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1061.html (881 words)

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	BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News » 2006 : The Start of America’s Next Progressive Era
		While progressive waves are built and moved from the ground, momentum stalls in the absence of a willing President.
		But Clinton was never progressive, never aligned himself with grassroots causes, and slowed rather than advanced the emergence of a new progressive era.
		Central to a new progressive era is increased union strength.
	www.beyondchron.org /articles/2006_The_Start_of_America_s_Next_Progressive_Era_4024.html (1169 words)

	United States History
		The Progressive Era did not see the end of all social and other problems by any means, nor were labor troubles put to rest, but it was a start.
		Progressives attacked “invisible government”—political hacks were replaced by professional civil service workers who made the system run, and who were hired on the basis of professional qualifications rather than for political reward.
		Progressives pushed for greater involvement by government in public affairs to increase services, build schools, facilitate loans, build roads, beef up conservation, and advance such causes as public health, welfare, care of handicapped, farm aid, child labor, mandatory school attendance, and transportation safety.
	www.sagehistory.net /progressive/topics/progressive.html (7547 words)

	From the Editor \| The Progressive Era \| Vol 13, No 3 \| OAH Magazine of History
		Controversy swirls around the term "The Progressive Era." It wasn't always so; when I was a college student in the late 1950s, we didn't seem to have problems with the term.
		Progressives believed that social classes in conflict with one another could be encouraged, by government if necessary, to cooperate for the sake of a greater good.
		Nancy G. Rosoff explains progressive social workers' concerns about the lack of decent leisure activities in early twentieth-century urban life and suggests ways to get students to think about similar issues in their own time.
	www.oah.org /pubs/magazine/progressive/perry.html (1347 words)

	[Regents Prep U.S. History] Reform: Progressive Era Reform
		The Progressive Movement (1901-1917) was initiated as a response to political and corporate abuses at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
		Progressive reform began at the local or city level because it was easier to implement than at the vast state or national level.
		During the Progressive Era, the Federal Government passed an enormous amount of legislation designed to conserve the environment, tighten past economic regulations, preserve the health and safety of American citizens, and generally provide needed capitalist reforms.
	regentsprep.org /Regents/ushisgov/themes/reform/progressive.htm (974 words)

	The Progressive Era, 1900-1916
		The Progressive Era coincided with new developments in technology, transportation, science, chemistry, biology and physics.
		The Progressive Era actually started long before 1900 and continues in many ways to the present time, for American has been in the business of reform from its earliest existence as a nation.
		Although the progressive reformers did not fix everything, there was little that escaped their fury.
	www.sagehistory.net /progressive/index.html (266 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Before 1910 one Progressive boasted that reformers were "simply keeping in advance of some of their sister States in taking a good half hitch on corporations." This mood waned before World War I, and the impulse to oversee business and to pursue social reform was eroding by 1920.
		The Progressives, said Love, wanted to keep "men who wear the political collar of the liquor traffic" off the slate, but they were no match for a coalition of Ferguson backers, friends of former senator Bailey, and moderates who thought the governor was doing Wilson's bidding.
		Nonetheless the Progressive Era in Texas had initiated trends that would lead to the emergence of the modern state.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/PP/npp1.html (5962 words)

	Dummies::SAT II U.S. History: Moving through the Progressive Era
		Progressives also believed that big business held too much sway with state legislatures because it often had preferences for who it wanted to serve in the Senate — for their own interests, of course, which led to much corruption.
		In 1913, Progressives won this battle for reform with the passage and ratification of the 17th Amendment, which allowed the public to choose its representatives in the U.S. Senate.
		Progressives believed that alcohol, America's most abused drug, was a major cause of society's moral decay.
	www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-3029.html (1299 words)

	TomPaine.com - The Conservative Era Ends
		No wonder Democrats felt emboldened to adopt themes from the party's progressive wing: According to the poll, 54 percent of those interviewed favored setting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, as opposed to 39 percent who do not, and 58 percent want increased congressional oversight of the administration’s war effort.
		More evidence of the progressive victory on Tuesday comes from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which reported Thursday that it has grown to at least 71 members.
		Progressive Caucus members have been in the forefront of agitating for withdrawal from Iraq and have already set the stage for the populist economic battles that a former Progressive Caucus member, House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is expected to lead in the new Congress.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/2006/11/09/the_conservative_era_ends.php (507 words)

	Progressive Era
		Progressive Republican President who was known as "trustbuster" for breaking up some trusts.
		He was also a conservationist who doubled the number of national parks and preserved 150 million acres of forest.
		Progressive Democratic President who lowered the tariff and made laws against monopolies stronger.
	www.iq.poquoson.org /progera.htm (786 words)

	The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
		Progressives were a diverse group with various--and sometimes contradictory--agendas.
		One was the dilemma of how to maintain the material benefits that flowed from the industrial revolution while bringing the powerful forces creating those benefits under democratic control and managing economic opportunity.
		But the agenda of the Progressive movement agenda was not always "progressive" Its reformism was tainted by antagonism to radical labor movements and an indifference to the plight of African Americans and other minorities.
	americanhistory.si.edu /presidency/timeline/pres_era/3_658.html (302 words)

	Women in the Progressive Era
		Although traditional histories of the Progressive Era focus on male figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair, in many ways women were the driving force behind progressive reforms.
		The efforts of women during the Progressive Era significantly impacted the lives of countless Americans and led to many of the "luxuries" we take for granted today - including clean water, trash collection, hot lunches at schools, community playgrounds, fire codes for office buildings, public libraries, and so much more.
		During the Progressive Era, female reformers used this ideology to argue that in order to protect the home, women should move into the public sphere where they could exercise their moral authority over issues such as public sanitation and education, which ultimately affected the home.
	www.nmwh.org /ProgressiveEra/introwomenprogressive.html (264 words)

	Documenting "The Other Half": The Social Reform Photography of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
		The industrial plants that survived became more demanding in terms of both the speed and the regularity with which their workers produced goods.
		One of the most persistent causes of Progressive Era reformers was child labor reform.
		Progressive Era reformers believed that child labor was detrimental to children and to society.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/photography/reform/progressive_era.html (710 words)

	The American Experience \| Eleanor Roosevelt \| People & Events \| Progressive Movement 1901-1918
		But this legislation really came at the tail end of the period which has come to be known as the "Age of Reform." The amendments were actually the byproducts of an immense social and political upheaval which changed forever the expectations of the role government would play in American society.
		The progressives came from a long tradition of middle-class elites possessing a strong sense of social duty to the poor.
		The window of time that the Progressive Era inhabits is a brief one, but not at all insignificant.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande08.html (1169 words)

	THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
		Progressives believed that if the public knew the truth about political issues, it would take action to eliminate abuses.
		Therefore, the movement relied on social scientific analyses and journalistic exposes to reveal flaws in the system and proposed a democratizing alteration in the political process (initiative, recall, and referendum) to enable voters to choose wisely.
		Political progressives believed that curbing the abuses that grew out of that concentration was of primary importance.
	people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mcdaniel130/progressive_era.htm (1182 words)

	Progressive Era
		By the beginning of the twentieth century, muckraking journalists were calling attention to the exploitation of child labor, corruption in city governments, the horror of lynching, and the ruthless business practices employed by businessmen like John D. Rockefeller.
		Four constitutional amendments were adopted during the Progressive era, which authorized an income tax, provided for the direct election of senators, extended the vote to women, and prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
		Drawing support from the urban, college-educated middle class, Progressive reformers sought to eliminate corruption in government, regulate business practices, address health hazards, improve working conditions, and give the public more direct control over government through direct primaries to nominate candidates for public office, direct election of Senators, the initiative, referendum, and recall, and women's suffrage.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /modules/progressivism/index.cfm (345 words)

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