Progressive Era
Chapter 4: Daily Life 1900-1914
Chapter 5: Radicals and Reformers 1900-1914
Chapter 6: Wars for Democracy 1914-1919
Economic Reform
"remarkable new system of production and distribution" emerged after depression of 1890s
- Mass Production
- Electricity
- "Long Wave" from telegraph to Edison to A-bomb
- Scientific Management
- Welfare Capitalism
- housing, pensions, Americanization
- Mass Market
- Crisco, Uneeda, A&P, Sears
Social Reform
- Settlements
- Jane Addams, Lillian Wald
- Anti-Lynching
- Factory Reform
- F. Perkins, F. Kelley, L. Brandeis, J. Lathrop, L. Hine
- Garmet Workers
- Clara Lemlich, WTUL, ILGWU, A. Lincoln Filene
- Mine Workers
- Banner coal mine, UMWA, Ludlow
- Muckrakers
- Women reformers
- Prisons
Cultural Reform
- Spelling
- Spelling Reform Association, "search for order"
- Temperance
- Immigration
Political Reform
- "Women's activism was central to the development of progressivism."
- Suffrage
- NAWSA, Jeannette Rankin, Abigail Scott Duniway
- Urban Reform
- Theodore Roosevelt
- coal strike, trustbuster, square deal, Meat Inspection Act, New Nationalism
- Conservation
- Woodrow Wilson
- New Freedom, Clayton Act, Frank Walsh, Adamson Act, Fed, FTC
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