General

• Progressive Era (1890-1913) - America's Story from America's Library (Library of Congress)
• Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1919 (from the Library of Congress)
• HippoCampus US History _ AP History II
• The New York State Archives Project Page
• The Reform Era
• 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)
• Power Point Palooza (from History Teacher.net)
• Progressive Era Links
• Progressive Era (from Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources" )
• Progressive Movement (from Ohio History Central)
• Learn About the Progressive Era (from Digital History)

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
• Notes on the 14th Amendment
• Fifteenth Amendment - Race No Bar to Vote (1870)
  • Notes on the 15th Amendment

American Social/Economic/Political Injustices

Muckraking Journalism

• Muckraking Journalism (Yellow Journalism)
• Muckrakers (from U.S. History.com)
• Yellow Journalism Spikes Tension (from NebraskaStudies.org, click on 1900 Turn of the Century Progressive Movement and select topic on left)
• Ida Tarbell (from About.com)
• Ida Tarbell (from PBS)
• Ida Tarbell Homepage
• McClure's Magazine
• The New Muckraking Age by David Arthur Walters
• William "Big Bill" Haywood (from PBS)
• An essay giving a brief description of muckraking in the 19th century and the effect it had on the country
• Nellie Bly (from PBS)
• Elizabeth Jane Cochran (Nellie Bly) from National Womens Hall of Fame
• Nellie Bly 1864 - 1922 : The Best Reporter in America , by Rosemary Gazzillo (from Women in New York City, 1890-1940)
• Ten Days In a Mad-House. By Nellie Bly (from Celebration of Women Writers)
• Nellie Bly (from Spartacus Eductional)
• Nellie Bly : Daredevil Reporter By Sean McCollum (from Scholastic)

Banking Problems

• The Federal Reserve System
• Historical Beginnings: The Federal Reserve by Rodger T. Johnson
• Federal Reserve System (from US Histroy)

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)

Capitalism / Government led by Big Business (Socialist Movement)

• Eugene Debs (from Spartacus Educational)
• Eugene V. Debs
• Eugene Debs ( from EyeWitness to History)
• Pyramid of Capitalist System
• Socialist Party of America (from Spartacus Educational)
• The General Strike, By Bill Haywood

Cartoons

• Educators and Students - Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912 (from the National Archives)
• 19th & 20th Century Labor Prints
• Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt Political Cartoon
• Clifford K. Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

Conservation / Environmental - Natural Resources

• 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)
• Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt Political Cartoons
• Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century: Rough Rider in the White House 1901-1909 (from the Smithsonian)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) New Perspectives on the West (from PBS)
• Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929 - Conservation in the Progressive Era.

Consumer Foods - Meats & Medicine

• U.S.Food and Drug Administration including
  • Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906
  • The Story Of The Laws Behind The Labels
• Upton Sinclair (from Spartacus Educational)
• Meat-packing House Inspections (from National Archives and Records Administration)
• 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
• Meat Inspection Act
• Harvey W. Wiley (from FDA)

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)

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 History & Archology - The New Georgia Encyclopedia)
• The Grange (from NebraskaStudies.org)

Labor

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

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)

Political Corruption in Cities

• Tweed, William Marcy (from Infoplease)
• William Marcy "Boss" Tweed - Corrupt NYC Political Boss - from About.com
• Boss Tweed Escaped From Prison December 4, 1875 (from America's Story from America's Library)
• The Tweed Ring (from u-s-history.com)
• Samuel Milton Jones (from Spartacus Educational)
• George K. Nash
• Thomas Nast - the Father of American Caricature
• Thomas Nast (from Spartacus Educational)
• Thomas Nast (from HarperWeek)
• Teddy Roosevelt (from Spartacus Educational)

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

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)

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
• 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
• Twenty-First Amendment - from Ohio History Central

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
• Jacob Riis Photographs - a primary source slide show
• Jacob Riis: Shedding Light on NYC's 'Other Half' - from National Public Radio
• Lewis Hine: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 - Photographs of Lewis W. Hine
• The Tenement Museum
• Lillian Wald (from Henry Street Settlement)

Women's Suffrage Movement

• 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)
• The Liz Library Presents: The Women Suffrage Timeline

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