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Progressive Era took place in |
1st 2 decades of the 20th century |
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progressive era marked by |
economic expansion and production of new jobs consumer society cities expanding rapidly changing traditional gender roles question of gov role in combating social inequality demand that immigrants become Americanized |
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expansion of freedoms in progressive era |
expansion of political and economic freedom through women's suffrage, use of political power to expand workers' rights and efforts to improve democratic gov by weakening control of city bosses and giving ordinary citizens more influence on legislation |
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progressive era notion of freedom based on |
individual fulfillment and personal self-determination |
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progressive era limited full enjoyment of freedoms to |
those deemed fit to exercise it properly |
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Progressive Era farm prices |
recovered from 1890s low point and entered its golden age |
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Progressive Era downfalls |
stark urban inequalities continued from the 1890s white supremacy fully consolidated in the South |
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Progressive Era muckraking |
exposed the ills of American industrial and urban life through journalism |
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Muckraking led to the |
Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 |
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Progressive Era Industrial Expansion and Agricultural Decline led to the |
peak of new immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe |
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Progressive Era new immigrants viewed freedom as |
an economic ambition to escape from hopeless poverty and achieve a standard of living impossible at home instead they endured low wages, long hours and dangerous working conditions |
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Progressive Era economic productions switched from |
capital goods (steel, railroad equipment) to consumer goods and the city became the birthplace of the consumer society giving new meaning to American Freedom |
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The Progressive Era working woman became the |
symbol of female emancipation still faced obstacles of wage discrimination and exclusion from many jobs |
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P.E. economic abundance defines American way of life and personal fulfillment found through |
acquiring material goods |
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P.E. quest for freedom shifted to |
private life which caused political activism workers joined unions to fight for higher wages |
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PE American standard of living and a living wage |
new language to criticize the inequalities of wealth and power natural and absolute right of citizenship catholic insistence that economic relationships should be governed by moral standards |
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primary task of progressivism |
humanize industrial capitalism and find common ground in a society racked by labor conflicts and experiencing massive immigration from abroad |
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PE Industrial Freedom complaints from poorly-paid factory workers and better off employees as well |
large firms implemented great control over the work process workers saw the erosion of their traditional influence over the work process as a loss of freedom unions embodied the ideal of freedom - the right to govern themselves contradiction between political liberty and industrial slavery is America's foremost problem |
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Rallying cry during Progressive Era |
socialism and economic freedom called for reforms such as free higher education, improved labor conditions and democratic control over economy through railroads and factories |
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PE AFL American Federation of Labor |
sought to forge closer ties w/ forward thinking corporate leaders willing to deal with unions as a way to stabilize employee relations only represented the most privileged (white, male, native born) |
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PE IWW International Workers of the World |
sought to mobilize those excluded from the AFL including immigrants, migrant workers, women, African Americans and the Chinese part trade union, part advocate of a workers' revolution that would seize the means of production and abolish the state |
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PE Labor and Civil Liberties |
the struggle for the right to strike and to speak openly made free speech a significant issue state courts regularly issued injunctions prohibiting strikers from speaking, picketing, and distributing literature during protests IWW battled for civil liberites |
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PE Feminism |
first entered vocabulary during PE referred to emancipation as a human-being and a sex-being bohemia's definition of feminism merged with issues like the right to vote and greater economic opportunities lyrical left came into being (freedom key to its vision) |
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PE Politics |
effective freedom - progressivism as an intellectual movement social legislation - gov action to address urban problems and insecurities of working class life fundamental rethinking of the functions of political authority democratic cooperation in determining the ideals and purposes and industrial and social institutions of the country |
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PE State and Local Reforms |
state and local gov enacted most reforms to reduce power of city bosses, public control of natural monopolies, improve public transportation raise property taxes to build public institutions |
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PE Progressive Democracy |
restore political power to the citizenry and civic harmony to a divided society create a unified people devoted to democracy and social reconciliation through reforms |
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PE Increased Government made it important to identify |
who was entitled to political participation and who was not |
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PE Democracy enhanced and decreased by |
17th Amendment enfranchising women through a constitutional amendment disenfranchised AAs many cities replaced elected mayors with appointed officials insulating them from popular control literacy tests and residency and registration requirements limited the right to vote of the poor |
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PE Government by Expert |
gov could best exercise intelligent control over society through a democracy run by impartial experts unaccountable to the citizenry impulse toward order, efficiency and centralized management political freedom less about participation in gov than of qualified persons devising the best public policies |
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PE Womens' Suffrage |
after 1900 moved beyond elite membership to becoming a mass movement supported by the Populist Party |
