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The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) [1] [2] was a period in the United States characterized by multiple social and political reform efforts. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Reformers during this era, known as Progressives , sought to address issues they associated with rapid industrialization , urbanization , immigration , and political corruption , as well as the ...
[63] [64] Equally significant to progressive-era reform were the crusading journalists known as muckrakers. These journalists publicized to middle class readers economic privilege, political corruption and social injustice. Their articles appeared in McClure's Magazine and other reform periodicals. Some muckrakers focused on corporate abuses.
The Progressive Era was a period marked by reforms aimed at breaking the concentrated power, or monopoly, of certain corporations and trusts. Many Progressives believed that state legislatures were part of this problem and that they were essentially "in the pocket" of certain wealthy interests. They sought a method to counter this—a way in ...
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era is a book written by Thomas C. Leonard and published in 2016 by the Princeton University press which reevaluates several leading figures of the progressive era of American economics, and points out that many of the progressives of the late 19th and early 20th century who created policies such as minimum wage and ...
The period featured a transformation from the issues of the Third Party System, which had focused on the American Civil War, Reconstruction, race, and monetary issues. The era began in the severe depression of 1893 and the extraordinarily intense election of 1896. It included the Progressive Era, World War I, and the start of the Great Depression.
Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018). Meckel, Richard A. Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1990). Mohr, James C. Doctors and the law : medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America (1993) online
The 1883 law only applied to federal jobs: not to the state and local jobs that were the main basis for political machines. Ethical degeneration was halted by reform in civil service and municipal reform in the Progressive Era, which led to structural changes in administrative departments and changes in the way the government managed public ...
The first wave of the club movement during the progressive era was started by white, middle-class, Protestant women, and a second phase was led by African-American women. [2] These clubs, most of which had started out as social literary gatherings, eventually became a source of reform for various issues in the U.S.