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	Progressive Movement
		Many Progressives came from the traditional upper and middle-class establishment, and were offended by the emergence of a class of government and political professionals who threatened their own views of democratic ideals and social justice.
		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)

	James Madison Center: Teacher Resources: US History Curriculum: Chapter IX
		One manifestation of this unrest was the progressive movement.
		Progressive connotes progress — thus, to be against the progressives was to be against progress.
		The progressives claimed to be "reformers." Reform is usually defined as "making better by removing faults and defects." Yet, a better definition of reform could be "change that benefits those advocating it" (an obvious example of this definition is the abolishment of slavery — to the plantation owner it was not "reform").
	www.jmu.edu /madison/center/main_pages/teacher/curriculum/chap9.htm (4956 words)

	Political progressivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Progressives in the US were strong in the early parts of the 20th century.
		The term progressive is popular in Australia, since many on the left usually support either the Labor Party, the Democrats or the Greens, opposed to the right-wing Liberal Party of Australia.
		Progressive Party, which refers to 3 different parties of different periods, to see how the term progressive has been used in political campaigns in the past.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressivism (625 words)

	AllRefer.com - progressive education (Education: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		Confined to a period between the late 19th and mid-20th cent., the term "progressive education" is generally used to refer only to those educational programs that grew out of the American reform effort known as the progressive movement.
		Progressive education was a pluralistic phenomenon, embracing industrial training, agricultural education, and social education as well as the new techniques of instruction advanced by educational theorists.
		Progressive education opposed formalized authoritarian procedure and fostered reorganization of classroom practice and curriculum as well as new attitudes toward individual students.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/progrsved.html (289 words)

	Creating a Progressive Values Movement — Rockridge Institute
		Progressives must become aware of the values they share in order to achieve a consensus of ideas while maintaining their individuality.
		Once progressives understand the moral system that they share, it will be possible to articulate and sustain a movement based on values, principles and policy directions that is needed to win elections and support progressive organizations.
		Once this is recognized, supported, and extended, progressives can be on their way to greater unity and achieve a broad-based and lasting progressive values movement to counter conservative efforts to force Strict Father morality into our society and institutions of government.
	www.rockridgeinstitute.org /research/rockridge/valuesmovement (1906 words)

	Encyclopedia: Progressive movement
		Progressive Movement is the term used to refer collectively to several various movements around the world that adhere to progressivism.
		These movements span several specific and particular fields that include economics, politics, education, and even the arts, all in different places, and at different points in time.
		In the United States, the Progressive Era was a period of reform that began in Americas urban regions from, approximately the 1890s and lasted through the 1920s, although some experts say it lasted from 1900 to 1920.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Progressive-movement (403 words)

	The Progressive Impulse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to progressive logic, the first job was to replace them with reliable public servants drawn from the popular ranks and equipped with the needed expertise.
		Progressives, in short, found in the idea of scientific government the materials for building a national reform movement.
		The progressives were drawn from the mainstream of the native-born middle class that dominated American politics in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
	fc.mosesbrown.org /~dmacleod/ProgressiveImpulse.html (804 words)

	Introduction to the Progressive Movement
		The Progressive movement of 1900-1920, was not a single movement with gust a single goal.
		Progressive reformers were convinced that as citizens they were responsible for the well being of their communities.
		The Progressive movement began to reform politics, more importantly, reform the way in which candidates were chosen for public office.
	pages.prodigy.net /paulloeh/ahu2notes.htm (1989 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)

	Building to Win
		The broad movement of American politics over the past twenty-five years has been toward the acceptance, indeed the embrace, of greater inequality, the discrediting of public institutions and a near-idolatry of private markets at the expense of corporate accountability to the rest of us.
		A new progressive movement needs to break with the divisions of the past and subsume differences--without suppressing our diversity and pluralism--in pursuit of goals on which we are all agreed.
		If the progressive movement is to oppose the right-wing agenda of the Bush Administration and take on America's powerful conservative forces, labor and the wider progressive community need a new strategy.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0623-02.htm (2086 words)

	The Progressive Movement 1890 - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Decline of the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1920...
		Progressives and Reformers [1901-1921]: A period of reform known as the Progressive Era took shape in the late 1800's.
		The Progressive Movement (1901-1917) was initiated as a response to political and corporate abuses at...
	movement.faasv.com /index.php?k=the-progressive-movement-1890 (1127 words)

	progressive education. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The principles and practices of progressive education gained wide acceptance in American school systems during the first half of the 20th cent.; similar pedagogical innovations were instituted in many of the schools of Europe.
		By that time, however, the progressive movement had effected a permanent transformation in the character of the American school, and many progressive schools across the country were firmly established.
		Other educational reform movements that have been affected by or are similar to progressive education are open education, the Summerhill school, and the reforms of Maria Montessori.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pr/progrsved.html (767 words)

	Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement
		Many progressives, like Theodore Roosevelt, possessed a fundamental conservatism, fearing that the consolidation of power and wealth in the hands of private interests threatened the morality and stability of the nation.
		The challenge for Progressive politicians like Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson was the difficulty of walking a political tightrope, balancing the radical elements of socialism and populism on the left (what TR called "the lunatic fringe") and the conservatives who controlled both the Republican and Democratic parties on the right.
		But before judging the progressives too harshly, we should remember how bad social conditions were at the time, and the odds against which the reformers fought in their vigorous efforts to mitigate the harshness of industrial-urban life in the early twentieth century.
	www.vw.vccs.edu /vwhansd/HIS122/Teddy/TRProgressive.html (1237 words)

	Women and The Progressive Era --National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		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.
		On the other hand, many progressives hoped to increase efficiency in government and believed that they could do so by diminishing the power of elected officials and installing "experts" in their stead.
		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)

	ABC News: Election Results a Victory for Progressive Movement
		And the progressive coalition is strong and growing in this country.
		All aspects of the progressive infrastructure fired well from high quality candidates and good ideas from think tanks to strong ground organization and strategic smarts and passion from bloggers.
		In the end, millions of Americans agreed with progressives that our government should be doing more to serve the common good and to help struggling citizens and the least fortunate among us find quality work and greater opportunities to get ahead.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/story?id=2638408&page=1 (370 words)

	Progressive movement -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		movement that took form in Europe and the United States during the late 19th century as a reaction to the alleged narrowness and formalism of traditional education.
		English aesthetic movement of the second half of the 19th century that represented the beginning of a new appreciation of the decorative arts throughout Europe.
		The progressive education movement was part and parcel of a broader social and political reform called the Progressive movement, which dates to the last decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313073 (796 words)

	Is Muslimwakeup Undermining the Progressive Muslim Movement
		Progressive Muslims have always claimed that Islam is a progressive faith and progressive values are embedded in its sources and it is our job to extract and articulate them.
		: This is the irony and tragedy of the Progressive Muslim Movement, that it is accused of intolerance.
		Progressive Muslim Union and Muslimwakeup.com do not have any formal relationship; A few months ago the decision to separate MWU and PMU was taken and now there is no institutional relationship between the two.
	www.ijtihad.org /Muslimwakeup.htm (1777 words)

	This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On.
		You are the heirs of one of the country's great traditions – the progressive movement that started late in the l9th century and remade the American experience piece by piece until it peaked in the last third of the 20th century.
		They were a diverse lot, held together by a common admiration of progress – hence the name – and a shared dismay at the paradox of poverty stubbornly persisting in the midst of progress like an unwanted guest at a wedding.
		The progressive impulse had its final fling in the landslide of 1969 when LBJ, who was a son of the West Texas hill country, where the Populist rebellion had been nurtured in the 1890s, won the public endorsement for what he meant to be the capstone in the arch of the New Deal.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0610-11.htm (5065 words)

	The Progressive Era An Internet WebQuest on The Progressive Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929 - Provides a brief explanation of the Progressive Era, with links to specific topics that might be of further use to you as you progress through this webquest.
		At the turn of the century, women made some progress for their cause but many Americans were still unprepared to recognize women as equals.
		Women in the Progressive Era - Focuses on the contributions of women to the American Progressive Movement and women's suffrage in particular.
	www.teacherwebpage.com /gov/wbalser/progressive_erawebq.htm (1889 words)

	Progressive Union Movement - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A free and progressive trade union movement in the 21st century should and must reflect greater participation...
		However the Progressive movement needs a powerful idea to attract non mosque-goers and for that it needs to establishes...
		NEC discussed the evolution of the progressive trade union movement in South Africa and the important...
	movement.faasv.com /index.php?k=progressive-union-movement (1216 words)

	A Fierce Discontent : The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With this formulation he thus includes Carrie Nation as a progressive, making a strong argument that in her attacks on drinking and barrooms she was attempting to change the behavior of men, and in so doing, improve the lives of women, and change society for the better.
		Progressives attempted to bridge the social distance between the rich and poor through the mediating ideology of association.
		Progressives looked away as African Americans, two generations after the Civil War and increasingly unwilling to toe the racial line any longer, were viciously "put in their place" by lynch mobs and a revived KKK across the South.
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	The American Experience \| Eleanor Roosevelt \| People & Events \| Progressive Movement 1901-1918
		In the name of democratic ideals and social justice, progressives made themselves the arbiters of a "new" America in which the ideals of the founding fathers could find a place within the nation's changing landscape.
		The progressives came from a long tradition of middle-class elites possessing a strong sense of social duty to the poor.
		Extending their democratic sensibilities and sense of moral duty to the situation in Europe, the pro-war progressives approached the conflict with the same moralizing impulse.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande08.html (1169 words)

	ADAH: Alabama Moments (Alabama Women and the Progressive Movement--Details)
		Ironically, it was her marriage to a rising young Birmingham businessman, Solon Jacobs, that gave her the economic security to pursue her interest in a variety of reform causes in the Progressive era.
		But it was the lack of success in several attempts at civic improvements, particularly in regard to schools, that brought her into the suffrage movement for which she would become best known.
		Pattie Ruffner Jacobs and Sue Berta Coleman never met each other, but each was a "Progressive reformer" who saw needs in her community and made a commitment of time, talent, and energy to bring about change.
	www.alabamamoments.state.al.us /sec39det.html (908 words)

	The New Progressive Movement and Media Diversity
		The Progressive Movement emerged among working people over 100 years ago as a counter movement to the negative effects of industrialization, business concentration, corruption, labor abuses, pollution and wealth inequality.
		Numerous changes occurred during the movement including: political reform, rights of recall, city planning/zoning laws, content label laws, labor/worker safety laws, aid to dependent children, and the recognition that poverty was often created by social conditions.
		The Progressive Movement also included the creation of schools of journalism, whereby journalists were trained to present objective accounts of current events and address the many issues of power and inequality in society.
	www.putnampit.com /opinion/phillips_05_30_2000.html (621 words)

	Teacher Resources - Feature - American Memory Timeline: New Era
		The progressives, as they called themselves, worked to make American society a better and safer place in which to live.
		Many progressives were also concerned with the environment and conservation of resources.
		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 /ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/progress/progress.html (292 words)

	Term Paper on Progressive Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Progressive Era Progressivism in the United States took place in the period between the Spanish-American War and the entry of the United States into the great World War.
		The era’s true progress is sometimes contended, while in some instances reform measures did come about.
		The progressive era evidently shaped up to be quite a significant part of our history.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Progressive_Movement-100592.html (196 words)

	H102 Lecture 11: The Dawn of Liberalism: Progressivism
		Historians often describe the Progressive movement as the urban counterpart to Populism.
		Progressives, themselves, were never a unified group with a single objective or set of objectives.
		The social settlement movement was formed as a ministry to immigrants and the urban poor.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/lecture11.html (1093 words)

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