General

• Progressive Era (1890-1913) - America's Story from America's Library (Library of Congress)
• The Reform Era
• U.S. History: Progressive Era (from Wikibooks, collection of open ended textbooks)
• The National Archives provides primary resources on The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) and The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
• The Progressive Movement (from NebraskaStudies.org, click on 1900 Turn of the Century Progressive Movement and select topic on left)

Education

• Horace Mann ((from the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society)
• PBS Online: Only A Teacher: Schoolhouse Pioneers
• Booker T. Washington (from School: The Story of American Public Education, PBS Online)
• Booker T. Washington (from American Experience: Marcus Garvey: People & Events)

Cartoons

• Educators and Students - Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912 (from the National Archives)
• 19th & 20th Century Labor Prints

Labor

• see our Labor page for links to information about labor leaders, child labor, and the coal mining industry

Big Business, Monopolies, Trusts

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (from Infoplease.com)
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (from Spartacus Educational)
• Trustbusters: A History Lesson (from BBC News)

Socialist Movement

• Eugene Debs (from Spartacus Educational)
• Eugene V. Debs
• Eugene V. Debs: Women's Rights
• Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) from the AFL-CIO
• Pyramid of Capitalist System

Muckraking Journalism

• Muckraking Journalism (Yellow Journalism)
• Muckrakers (from Columbia Encyclopedia Online)
• Muckrakers (from U.S. History.com)
• Muckracker (from Wikipedia)
• Yellow Journalism Spikes Tension (from NebraskaStudies.org, click on 1900 Turn of the Century Progressive Movement and select topic on left)

Urban Conditions/Poverty

• On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
• Jane Addams 1860-1935 (from American Experience: Chicago: City of the Century)
• Hull House
• New York City Tenement Museum including a link to the New York City Immigrant Heritage Trail

Women's Suffrage Movement

• The Liz Library Presents: The Women Suffrage Timeline
• Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998
• "Votes for Women Suffrage" Pictures 1850 -1920
• The Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls, NY, 1848
• Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West - (National Archives)
• Documents From The Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection (from Duke University)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775 - 2000
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (America's Story from America's Library - The Library of Congress
• Votes for Women (from NebraskaStudies.org, click on 1900 Turn of the Century Progressive Movement and select topic on left)
• Jane Addams, Progressivism and Women's Suffrage (from PBS)

Conservation

• Theodore Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress
• Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 (from the Library of Congress)
• Conservation in the Progressive Era (from the Library of Congress)
• TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt: Roosevelt's Legacy (from The American Experience)
• John Muir Biography (from the Ecology Hall of Fame)
• John Muir National Historic Site - Quick facts about John Muir from the National Park Service

Temperance and Prohibition

• The Anti-Saloon League
• Carry A. Nation (from the Kansas Historical Society)
• Carry Nation (from Who2 Profile)
• The Temperance Movement (from U.S. History.com)
• Temperance & Prohibition (from Ohio State University Department of History & the Goldberg Program)
• WCTU - homepage of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union - Spartacus Educational
• Photo of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Mission, Denver, CO approx.1900
• Eighteenth Amendment (from Ohio History Central)
• 18th Amendment - Liquor Abolished (1919)
  • Notes on the 18th Amendment
• Prohibition - from Ohio History Central
• Prohibition in the Progressive Era - from the Library of Congress' American Memory
• Prohibition (from NebraskaStudies.org, click on 1900 Turn of the Century Progressive Movement and select topic on left)
• Bootlegging - definition from Merrium-Webster's Online Dictionary
• Bootlegging (from Ohio History Central)
• Speakeasies (from PBS)
• 21st Amendment - Amendment 18 Repealed
  • Notes on the 21st Amendment
• Twenty-First Amendment - from Ohio History Central

African American Rights

• Marcus Garvey: An Overview (from African Genesis Presents African American History )
• American Experience: Marcus Garvey (from PBS)
• Marcus Garvey Timeline (from PBS)
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection 1824 to 1909
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
• The Two Nations of Black America: Booker T and W. E. B.
• Thirteenth Amendment - Slavery Abolished (1865)
  • Notes on the 13th Amendment
• Fourteenth Amendment - Citizenship Rights (1868)
  • Notes on the 14th Amendment
• Fifteenth Amendment - Race No Bar to Vote (1870)
  • Notes on the 15th Amendment

Peace Movement

• Jeannette Rankin: Win A War. (from Daily Celebrations)
• Jeannette Rankin (from the National Association of Social Workers)
• First World War I Peace Movement: Radical Glasgow (from Glasgow Caledonian University)
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF
• Encyclopedia of USA History: First World War - (scroll down to Anti War Movement and Women and the War links)

Political Corruption in Cities

• Cox, George Barnsdale (1853–1916)
• George Barnsdale Cox (History Channel)
• Tweed, William Marcy (from Infoplease)
• Boss Tweed
• William Marcy "Boss" Tweed - Corrupt NYC Political Boss - from About.com
• The Tweed Ring (from u-s-history.com)
• "Golden Rule" Jones
• Samuel Milton Jones (from Spartacus Educational)
• George K. Nash
• Thomas Nast - the Father of American Caricature
• Thomas Nast (from Spartacus Educational)
• Teddy Roosevelt (from Spartacus Educational

Spoils System

• The Spoils System (from Infoplease.com)
• The Spoils System Versus the Merit System (from u-s-history.com)
• The Arthur Administration: Civil Service Reform Under Arthur Pendleton Civil Service Act
• The Civil Service System: History (from Infoplease.com)
• James A. Garfield (whitehouse.gov)
• Rutherford B. Hayes (whitehouse.gov)

Political Reform

• Direct Democracy Reforms: Recall (from u-s-history.com)
• Direct Democracy Reforms: Initiative (from u-s-history.com)
• Direct Democracy Reforms: Referendum (from u-s-history.com)
• Robert LaFollette - from the Social Studies Help Center
• La Follette and His Legacy - a reasearch paper with photographs
• Seventeenth Amendment - Senators Elected by Popular Vote - (1913)
  • Notes on the 17th Amendment

Farmers

• Populist Party Platform 1892 (from u-s-history.com)
• William Jennings Bryan (from u-s-history.com)
• The Populist Party (from Spartacus School.net)
• Hazardous Business- Farmers' Alliance Minutes, Travis County Farmers' Alliance, October 11, 1889 (from Texas State Library & Archives Commission)
• Farmers Alliance (from Answers.com)
• Farmers' Alliance (from History & Archology - The New Georgia Encyclopedia)
• The Grange Movement (from u-s-history.com)
• The Grange (from NebraskaStudies.org)

Consumer Foods - Meats & Medicine

• U.S.Food and Drug Administration including
  • The Long Struggle For The 1906 Law
  • The Story Of The Laws Behind The Labels
• Harvey W. Wiley
• Upton Sinclair (from Spartacus Educational)
• 1906: Upton Sinclair
• Acts, Bills, and Laws - Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 - The Theodore Roosevelt Administration
• Acts, Bills, and Laws - Meat Inspection Act - The Theodore Roosevelt Administration, 1906

Banking Problems

• The Federal Reserve System
• Historical Beginnings: The Federal Reserve by Rodger T. Johnson
• Woodrow Wilson Federal Reserve Act

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