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The Progressive Era to New Era timeline (1900-1929) timeline covers the automobiles, urbanization, conservation, immigration, prohibition, World War I and women's suffrage with primary sources from American Memory.
Jack Schneider is a former high school social studies teacher
and youth mentor. He teaches in the Educational Studies Department at
Carleton College.
A confluence of factors, including the quickening pace of industrialization, urbanization, increasing immigration, and a growing presence on the world stage faced America in the late 19th Century. These pressures gave rise to various political movements, each seeking to provide answers to the most serious questions of the day. Overall, Americans found answers to these issues in the ideas of the Progressives. From both major political parties, the Progressives offered solutions to economic, social, and political problems, in some ways using and in others changing the American system of government that had existed for a century at that point.
Web Sites Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides, Activities, and more Progressive Era Web Sites America 1900 America 1900 by PBS American Experience paints a picture of life in the United S…
In the early twentieth century, reformers worked to improve American society and counteract the effect of industrialization.
New content is added regularly to the website, including online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and issues of the online journal History Now, which features essays by leading scholars on major topics in American history.
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Socialist and anarchist speakers provoked local law enforcement officials with their inflammatory, pro-union, anti-capitalist speeches.
