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CHAPTER 21

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1900–1917

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Progressives and Their Ideas

• The Many Faces of Progressivism Intellectuals• Offer New Social Views • Novelists, Journalists, and Artists Spotlight

Social Problems

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State and Local Progressivism

• Reforming the Political Process Regulating• Business, Protecting Workers • Making Cities More Livable

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Progressivism and Social Control

• Moral Control in the Cities • Battling Alcohol and Drugs • Immigration Restriction and Eugenics • Racism and Progressivism

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Blacks,Women,and Workers Organize

• African-American Leaders Organize Against Racism

• Revival of the Woman-Suffrage Movement • Enlarging “Woman’s Sphere” • Workers Organize; Socialism Advances

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Woman Suffrage Beforethe Nineteenth Amendment

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National Progressivism Phase I: Roosevelt and Taft, 1901–1913

• Roosevelt’s Path to the White House • Labor Disputes, Trustbusting, Railroad Regulation • Consumer Protection Environmentalism

Progressive-Style• Taft in the White House, 1909–1913 • The Four-Way Election of 1912

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The Election of 1912

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National Progressivism Phase II: Woodrow Wilson, 1913–1917

• Tariff and Banking Reform Regulating Business;• Aiding Workers and Farmers • Progressivism and the Constitution • 1916:Wilson Edges Out Hughes