Discuss the Progressive Era

When did it occur?
1. 1900-1917
What conditions led to it?
1. Labor unrest
2. The abuse of power by the large trusts
  1. Workers were being abused
  2. Monopolies
  3. Price fixing
3. The corruption of politics by business interests
4. Problems of urbanization
  1. Poverty
  2. Disease
  3. Crime
  4. Sanitation
5. The economic depression of 1893-1897
  1. The worst depression of the 19th Century
6. Middle Class Anxiety
  1. The middle class feared:
    1. The power and influence of trusts in government
      1. The socialist movement
    2. The agitation of labor and its radical elements
      1. That they would be caught in the middle of the conflicts between the trusts, the radicals in labor, and the socialist movement
What reforms were accomplished?
1. What areas were they accomplished in?
  1. REFER TO THE NODES CONTAINING "the reforms in various areas"
2. REFER TO THE NODES CONTAINING "the reforms in various areas"
Key People
1. Presidents
  1. Theodore Roosevelt
  2. William Howard Taft
  3. Woodrow Wilson
The reforms in various ares
1. Social reforms
  1. Conservation
    1. City, state, and national parks
    2. Playgrounds
  2. Clubs
    1. Girl Scouts
    2. Boy Scouts
  3. Progressive education
    1. Changes in how students were tought
    2. John Dewey
      1. Led the movement that focused on personal growth
    3. Chales Eliot
      1. Created elective courses
      2. Created new teaching techniques to make university learning more meaningful
  4. Women's Rights
    1. Margaret Sanger
      1. Founder of Planned Parenthood
  5. The rise of volunteer organizations
    1. The NAACP
      1. W.E.B. DuBois was the founder
      2. Formed to use legal means to end racial discrimination
    2. The Chamber of Commerce
    3. The American Bar Association
  6. Racial Progress
    1. Booker T. Washington
      1. Supported self-help for blacks
        Encouraged blacks to learn a trade
    2. W.E.B. DuBois
      1. Urged blacks to assert themselves
        Urged them to demand political and economic rights
2. Political reforms
  1. Direct elections
  2. Direct democracy
Why did the movement end eventually?
1. America entered WWI (1917)
  1. Lowered enthusiasm in the use of government to make just societies

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