Discuss the Progressive Era

Discuss the Progressive Era

1. When did it occur?

   • 1900-1917

2. What conditions led to it?

   • Labor unrest
   • The abuse of power by the large trusts
     • Workers were being abused
     • Monopolies
     • Price fixing
   • The corruption of politics by business interests
   • Problems of urbanization
     • Poverty
     • Disease
     • Crime
     • Sanitation
   • The economic depression of 1893-1897
     • The worst depression of the 19th Century
   • Middle Class Anxiety
     • The middle class feared:
       • The power and influence of trusts in government
         • The socialist movement
       • The agitation of labor and its radical elements
         • That they would be caught in the middle of the conflicts between the trusts, the radicals in labor, and the socialist movement

3. What reforms were accomplished?

   • What areas were they accomplished in?
     • REFER TO THE NODES CONTAINING "the reforms in various areas"
   • REFER TO THE NODES CONTAINING "the reforms in various areas"

4. Key People

   • Presidents
     • Theodore Roosevelt
     • William Howard Taft
     • Woodrow Wilson

5. The reforms in various ares

   • Social reforms
     • Conservation
       • City, state, and national parks
       • Playgrounds
     • Clubs
       • Girl Scouts
       • Boy Scouts
     • Progressive education
       • Changes in how students were tought
       • John Dewey
         • Led the movement that focused on personal growth
       • Chales Eliot
         • Created elective courses
         • Created new teaching techniques to make university learning more meaningful
     • Women's Rights
       • Margaret Sanger
         • Founder of Planned Parenthood
     • The rise of volunteer organizations
       • The NAACP
         • W.E.B. DuBois was the founder
         • Formed to use legal means to end racial discrimination
       • The Chamber of Commerce
       • The American Bar Association
     • Racial Progress
       • Booker T. Washington
         • Supported self-help for blacks
           • Encouraged blacks to learn a trade
       • W.E.B. DuBois
         • Urged blacks to assert themselves
           • Urged them to demand political and economic rights
   • Political reforms
     • Direct elections
     • Direct democracy

6. Why did the movement end eventually?

   • America entered WWI (1917)
     • Lowered enthusiasm in the use of government to make just societies