O.+THe+Progressive+Era

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**The Progressive Era**

//The// //Progressive movement partially succeeded in improving life for average Americans by curbing big business, making the government more responsive to the will of the people, and enacting social welfare legislation.//
 * Organizing Principle:**

· Muckraking || · City Commission, City Manager · Robert LaFollette’s Wisconsin Idea · Direct Primary, Initiative, Recall, Referendum, Secret Ballot · Amendments 16, 17, 18, 19 || · Temperance · Women · Civil Rights for Blacks · Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois || · Square Deal · Trust-Busting (Northern Securities Case) · Business Regulation · Consumer Protection · Labor (Coal Strike) · Conservation || · Furthering Progressivism · Angering the Progressives || · Candidates · Issues · Results || · New Freedom · Tariff and Banking Reform · Business Regulation · Labor || · Political · Economic · Social ||
 * · The Progressives: Who were they; what did they want? ||
 * · Progressive Philosophy
 * · Urban Reform ||
 * · Municipal and State Political Reform
 * · Social Justice Movements
 * · President Theodore Roosevelt
 * · President William Howard Taft
 * · Presidential Election of 1912
 * · President Woodrow Wilson
 * · Accomplishments of the Progressives