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The Progressive Era (1901–1929) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Progressives sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption as well as the enormous ...
The country life movement was an early 20th century American social movement which sought to improve the living conditions of America's rural residents. The movement focused on preserving traditional rural lifestyles while addressing poor living conditions and social problems within rural communities. Despite the movement's rural focus, many of ...
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they produce ...
Agricultural history 62.3 (1988): 161-181. online; Saloutos, Theodore. Farmer movements in the South, 1865-1933 (1960). Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of reform: farmers, workers, and the American state, 1877-1917 (U of Chicago Press, 1999) online. Shannon, Fred A. The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897 (1945) online, a standard ...
The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875. The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High ...
Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy that advocates for a return to subsistence agriculture, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Those who adhere to agrarianism tend to value traditional forms of local community over urban modernity. [ 3 ] Agrarian political parties sometimes aim ...
The Age of Reform. The Age of Reform is a 1955 [1] Pulitzer Prize -winning book by Richard Hofstadter. It is an American history, which traces events from the Populist Movement of the 1890s through the Progressive Era to the New Deal of the 1930s. The Age of Reform stands out from other historical material because Hofstadter's main purpose for ...
Progressivism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology. [1]