America’s HistorySixth Edition

CHAPTER 20The Progressive Era

1900–1914

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Henretta • Brody • Dumenil

The Course of Reform• The Middle-Class Impulse• Progressive Ideas• Women Progressives• Urban Liberalism• Reforming Politics• Racism and Reform

Progressivism and National Politics• The Making of a Progressive President• Regulating the Marketplace• The Fracturing of Republican Progressivism• Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom

Chapter 20 The Progressive Era

1900–1914• Map 20.1 Woman Suffrage, 1890–1919 (p. 618)• Map 20.2 National Parks and Forests, 1872–1980 (p. 631)• Map 20.3 Presidential Election of 1912 (p. 635)• Figure 20.1 The Federal Bureaucracy, 1891–1917 (p. 637)• Reba Owen, Settlement-House Worker (p. 610)• The Triangle Tragedy (p. 619)• Robert M. La Follette (p. 623)• Colored Women’s League of Washington, D.C. (p. 626)• “Jack and the Wall Street Giants,” Puck, January 13, 1904 (p. 630)• Campaigning for the Square Deal (p. 632)