Process of Enslavement, The
Historian and author Ira Berlin explains that the process by which African were enslaved was much more complicated than the stereotypical notion that, "...Europeans placed a few beads....on the coast of Africa, and Afric..
Professor Gerstle says: Theodore Roosevelt and Reform (Part One)
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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 norm..
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..
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..
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 th..
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..
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 an..
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 o..
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. Pro..