Progressive Era, The: Settlement House Movement, The
Nothing produces greater distress, many reformers believe, than the crowded immigrant neighborhoods of American cities. One response is to create settlement houses like Hull House which Jane Addams and a group of women open in Chicago in 1889. Using...
Progressive Era, The: Movement with a Variety of Meanings, A
A powerful surge of reform efforts emerges in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States--reforms intended to help the United States deal with the extraordinary changes brought on by industrialization and urbanization. "The progress...
Progressive Era, The: Government and Progressive Reform
Reformers seeking ways to get around city bosses, state legislators, and political parties try a variety of tactics. Some western states adopt an initiative process that empowers voters to write their own laws and put them to a vote of the people in...
Progressive Era, The: Immigration Restriction
The massive waves of immigration from Eastern Europe and Italy during the decades between 1880 to 1910 prompt concern that the growing immigrant population is creating social problems for the United States Although there is wide disagreement on how ...
Progressive Era, The: Temperance Crusade, The
Reformers during the progressive era direct much of their energy toward political issues but they also crusade on behalf of what they term moral issues, like the campaign to eliminate alcohol from the national scene. Prohibition is a clear example o...
Progressive Era, The: Challenging the Capitalist Order
At no time in U. S. history do critics of capitalism attract more support than in the period between 1900 and 1914. Although socialists agree on the need for basic structural changes in the economy, they differ widely on the tactics to use. Among th...
Progressive Era, The: Fight for Women's Suffrage
Perhaps the largest single reform movement of the progressive era is the fight for women's suffrage, a movement which attracts support from both men and women. Most states grant women some voting rights before passage of 19th amendment, acknowledgin...
Progressive Era, The: African-Americans and Reform
One social question that receives relatively little attention from white progressives is race. Among African Americans themselves, however, the progressive era produces some significant challenges to existing racial norms. Black women engaged in wel...
Progressive Era, The: Women and Reform
By the end of the 19th century, the home is not the all-consuming place it once was. Families are getting smaller, and growing numbers of middle-class women are identifying with activities outside the home such as women's clubs and social reform. So...
Progressive Era, The: Women in the Workforce
It is rare for a woman to hold public office in the early 20th century much less enter professions dominated by men. When women engage in "women's jobs" there is not much controversy. It is in higher earning and more prestigious areas like medicine ...