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1890s-1920s
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Unregulated capitalism Corruption in city, state, and federal
governments Poverty in American cities Consumer protection Environmental protection Search for order in a changing America
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Economic Reform
Moral Reform
Political Reform
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Urban Middle Class Reformers
Journalists and Writers – “muckrakers”
Political Leaders
Farm and Labor Supporters
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Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones – Mayor of Toledo
Robert La Follette – Governor of Wisconsin
Hiram Johnson – Governor of California
Teddy Roosevelt – President of US (1901-1909)
Woodrow Wilson – President of US (1913-1921)
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Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Ida Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company
Frank Norris, The Octopus
Lincoln Stevens, Shame of the Cities
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Thomas Nast, cartoonist Kindle Edition Image
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Secret Ballot Initiative Victorian Moral code Referendum Americanization of immigrants Government ownership of utilities End to child labor Recall Direct
Primary Prohibition Pure Food and Drug Act Meat Inspection Act Federal Reserve Act Sherman Anti-Trust Act Clayton Anti-Trust Act Amendments: 16th,17th,18th,19th
Woman suffrage
Report on Child Labor in Mississippi, 1911
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Populist Movement
Progressive Movement
New Deal
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Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
Elisabeth Israels Perry and Karen Manners Smith, eds. The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion
Robert. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920
The New York Tenement Museum website: http://www.tenement.org/
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