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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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