Progressive Era

10 Important Events of the Progressive Era, a timeline made with Timetoast''s free interactive timeline making software.

Reconstruction ends. Federal troops are withdrawn from the former Confederate states, formally ending the Reconstruction Era.

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Although material circumstances and politicians' self-interest helped to make America what it is today, the most important cause was a change in the prevailing understanding of justice among leading American intellectuals and in the American people. Today's liberalism and the policies that it has generated arose from aconscious repudiation of the principles of the American founding.

It seemed a triumphant moment when the United States catapulted to the top of the world's industrial producers by the end of the nineteenth century. The bitter legacy of the Civil War seemed to have subsided (for whites, at least) as the country got down to the business of technological advancement, manufacturing efficiency, transportation revolution, and wealth creation.

The turn of the twentieth century witnessed a sudden clamor for social, political, and economic reform. Progressives boldly challenged the received wisdom in every aspect of life.

The Progressive Movement was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century. The frontier had been tamed, great cities and businesses developed, and an overseas empire established, but not all citizens shared in the new wealth, prestige, and optimism.

In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Era in the United States. In the late 19th and early 20th century in America, there was a sense that things could be improved upon.

Progressivism is an umbrella label for a wide range of economic, political, social, and moral reforms. These included efforts to outlaw the sale of alcohol; regulate child labor and sweatshops; scientifically manage natural resources; insure pure and wholesome water and milk; Americanize immigrants or restrict immigration altogether; and bust or regulate trusts.

Between 1900 and 1915, more than 15 million immigrants arrived in the United States. That was about equal to the number of immigrants who had arrived in the previous 40 years combined. In 1910, three-fourths of New York City's population were either immigrants or first generation Americans (i.e. the sons and daughters of immigrants).

The publication of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle produced an immediate and powerful effect on Americans and on federal policy, but Sinclair had hoped to achieve a very different result. At the time he began working on the novel, he had completed his studies at Columbia University and was trying to develop a career as an author. He had been born in Baltimore in 1878, but his family had moved to the Bronx in 1888.

The Progressive Movement encompassed a variety of different ideas and activities of reformist pressure groups. The Progressive Era was the period in the history of the United States that was dominated by reform ideals from 1890 - 1920.

Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America.

The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s. The main objective of the Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government.