{"id":4895,"date":"2021-02-22T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?page_id=4895"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:11:46","slug":"progressive-era","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/progressive-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>How did Progressives differ from Populists?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/\"><strong>American Yawp, Chapter 20:\u00a0 The Progressive Era<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#I_Introduction\">I. Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#II_Mobilizing_for_Reform\">II. Mobilizing for Reform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#III_Womens_Movements\">III. Women\u2019s Movements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#IV_Targeting_the_Trusts\">IV. Targeting the Trusts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#V_Progressive_Environmentalism\">V. Progressive Environmentalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#VI_Jim_Crow_and_African_American_Life\">VI. Jim Crow and African American Life<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#VII_Conclusion\">VII. Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#VIII_Primary_Sources\">VIII. Primary Sources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/#IX_Reference_Material\">IX. Reference Material<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Image Gateway<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_7491\" style=\"width: 1437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-19-at-12.09.59-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7491\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7491\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-19-at-12.09.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1427\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-19-at-12.09.59-PM.png 1427w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-19-at-12.09.59-PM-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-19-at-12.09.59-PM-1024x507.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-19-at-12.09.59-PM-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-19-at-12.09.59-PM-900x445.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot-2025-02-19-at-12.09.59-PM-1280x633.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female graduates of Dickinson College in 1910<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.59.39-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4898\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.59.39-AM-1024x759.png\" alt=\"Suffrage\" width=\"940\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.59.39-AM-1024x759.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.59.39-AM-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.59.39-AM-768x569.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.59.39-AM-1536x1139.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.59.39-AM-405x300.png 405w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-10.59.39-AM.png 1594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How might some Americans of that era, male or female, perceive this type of parade down Fifth Avenue on a Saturday afternoon to be dangerously provocative?<\/li>\n<li>Can you put the mobilization of suffrage parades, like this one by Harriot Stanton Blatch in New York City in 1912\u00a0 into the context of other political rights struggles from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Widespread dissatisfaction with new trends in American society spurred the Progressive Era, named for the various progressive movements that attracted various constituencies around various reforms. Americans had many different ideas about how the country\u2019s development should be managed and whose interests required the greatest protection. Reformers sought to clean up politics; Black Americans continued their long struggle for civil rights; women demanded the vote with greater intensity while also demanding a more equal role in society at large; and workers demanded higher wages, safer workplaces, and the union recognition that would guarantee these rights. Whatever their goals, <em>reform<\/em> became the word of the age, and the sum of their efforts, whatever their ultimate impact or original intentions, gave the era its name.&#8221; &#8211;Mary Anne Henderson, ed., Chapter 20: The Progressive Era, <em>American Yawp<\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/20-the-progressive-era\/\">WEB<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How should historians distinguish late 19th-century populists from early 20th-century progressives?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Women&#8217;s Movements<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.05.48-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4901\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.05.48-AM-1024x665.png\" alt=\"Timeline\" width=\"940\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.05.48-AM-1024x665.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.05.48-AM-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.05.48-AM-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.05.48-AM-1536x998.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.05.48-AM-462x300.png 462w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.05.48-AM.png 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/04KR8cPl5XI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Election of 1912<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.17.01-AM.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.17.01-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4907\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.17.01-AM-263x300.png\" alt=\"1910\" width=\"463\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.17.01-AM-263x300.png 263w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.17.01-AM.png 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gifford Pinchot, former head of the US Forest Service, was actually the chief author of the Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s 1910 \u201cNew Nationalism\u201d speech, described above by the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.\u00a0 Ex-president Roosevelt&#8217;s startling break with the Republican establishment helped lead to a four-way presidential contest in 1912.\u00a0 It also encouraged other precedents.\u00a0 Roosevelt was the first national candidate to openly endorse women&#8217;s suffrage.\u00a0 Jane Addams seconded his nomination at the Bull Moose convention, and over one million American women in six different western states were eligible to participate in this ground-breaking election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.13.18-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4904\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.13.18-AM.png\" alt=\"1912 \" width=\"1012\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.13.18-AM.png 1012w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.13.18-AM-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.13.18-AM-768x686.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-11.13.18-AM-336x300.png 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Handouts<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/02\/Handout-TR-and-New-Nationalism.pdf\">Handout &#8211;TR and New Nationalism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Progressives differ from Populists? American Yawp, Chapter 20:\u00a0 The Progressive Era I. Introduction II. Mobilizing for Reform III. Women\u2019s Movements IV. Targeting the Trusts V. Progressive Environmentalism VI. Jim Crow and African American Life VII. Conclusion VIII. Primary Sources IX. Reference Material Image Gateway &nbsp; Discussion Questions How might some Americans of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4895","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4895\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}