The Story of the Progressive Movement in Pennsylvania, April 1912 - May 1913
Author : Progressive league of Pennsylvania
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : Progressive league of Pennsylvania
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : Malverne Ray Wolfe
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Pennsylvania
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Author : Malverne R. Wolfe
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Progressive Party
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Typescript article on the Progressive Party in western Pennsylania.
Author : Walter Nugent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0199746559
After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged working Americans into poverty while a new class of ostentatious millionaires built huge mansions and flaunted their wealth. As capitalism ran unchecked and more and more economic power was concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, a sense of social crisis was pervasive. Progressive national leaders like William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert M. La Follette, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as muckraking journalists like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and social workers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald answered the growing call for change. They fought for worker's compensation, child labor laws, minimum wage and maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws, improved living conditions in urban slums, instituted the graduated income tax, won women the right to vote, and laid the groundwork for Roosevelt's New Deal. Nugent shows that the progressives--with the glaring exception of race relations--shared a common conviction that society should be fair to all its members and that governments had a responsibility to see that fairness prevailed. Offering a succinct history of the broad reform movement that upset a stagnant conservative orthodoxy, this Very Short Introduction reveals many parallels, even lessons, highly appropriate to our own time. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Author : Amos Pinchot
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Progressive Party (Founded 1912)
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Author : Theodore Roosevelt
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Campaign literature, 1912
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Author : Margaret O'Mara
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0812247469
From the era of the industrial factory to the age of the microchip, Pivotal Tuesdays explores four twentieth-century elections—1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992—using the election of the American president as a lens through which to explore the broader sweep of the nation's social, economic, and political history.
Author : Brett Flehinger
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2002-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312260293
Faced with the challenge of adapting America’s political and social order to the rise of corporate capitalism, in 1912 four presidential candidates — Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene Debs — shaped Americans’ thoughts about their public futures. Their positions would come to frame national conversation over the role of corporations in American life, determine the relation between the state and society that still controls our thinking about market regulation, and usher in a period of Progressive reform. Connecting the debates of 1912 to some of the most pressing issues of the Progressive Era, this volume presents selected sensational speeches, correspondence between these important figures and their allies and opponents, and 12 lively political cartoons. The documents are supported by an interpretive essay, a chronology, a bibliography, and a series of questions for student consideration, including ideas for a classroom debate.
Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781019297476
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Author : Upton Sinclair
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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