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Progressive Era: 1896–1917 ... America – the most significant country in modern history worldwide that was founded for the purpose of ... in the South, founded ...
During the term of the progressive Republican President Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and influenced by the ideas of philosopher-scientists such as George Perkins Marsh, William John McGee, John Muir, John Wesley Powell and Lester Frank Ward, [58] the largest government-funded conservation-related projects in United States history were ...
The Progressive Democratic Party was a political party in South Carolina in the 1940s. It was founded in 1944 by John Henry McCray , editor of the black newspaper The Lighthouse and Informer to galvanize blacks to register and vote.
Richter, William L. Historical Dictionary of the Old South (2005) Shafer, Byron E. The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South (2006) excerpt and text search; Twyman, Robert W. and David C. Roller, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern History LSU Press (1979). Woodard, J. David. The New Southern Politics ...
The Whig Party fell apart and the new Republican Party was founded in opposition to the expansion of slavery and to the Kansas–Nebraska Act. The new party had little support in the South, but it soon became a majority in the North by pulling together former Whigs and former Free Soil Democrats. [39] [40]
The Political South in the 20th Century (Scribner, 1975). ISBN 0-684-13983-9. Black, Earl, and Merle Black. Politics and Society in the South (1989) excerpt and text search; Bullock III, Charles S. and Mark J. Rozell, eds. The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics (2007) state-by-state coverage excerpt and text search
Croly was one of the founders of modern liberalism in the United States, especially through his books, essays and a highly influential magazine founded in 1914, The New Republic. In his 1914 book Progressive Democracy, Croly rejected the thesis that the liberal tradition in the United States was inhospitable to anti-capitalist alternatives.
Economic progressivism—also New Progressive Economics [44] —is a term used to distinguish it from progressivism in cultural fields. Economic progressives may draw from a variety of economic traditions, including democratic capitalism , democratic socialism , social democracy , and social liberalism .