Progressive Era

Examples of Progressive Era in the following topics:

• The Progressive Era

  • The Progressive Era was one of general prosperity after the Panic of 1893; a severe depression that ended in 1897.
  • The Progressive Era was one of general prosperity after the Panic of 1893; a severe depression that ended in 1897.
  • The progressives voiced the need for government regulation of business practices to ensure competition and free enterprise.
  • Taking his cue from developments during the progressive era , Ford offered a very generous wage—$5 a day—to his (male) workers.
  • Discuss the economic policies of the Progressive Era in the United States.

• Agricultural Interest Groups

  • Specifically, the vision of the yeoman farmer was one of the important American archetypes moving into the progressive era.

• The Golden Age: 1860–1932

  • Despite outward indicators of prosperity, the Gilded Age (late 1860s to 1896) was an era characterized by turmoil and political contention.
  • In United States history, the Gilded Age was the period following the Civil War, running from the late 1860s to about 1896 when the next era began, the Progressive Era.
  • The term was coined by writers Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized what they believed to be an era of serious social problems obscured by a thin veneer of prosperity.
  • American history texts usually call it the Progressive Era, and it included World War I and the start of the Great Depression.

• Incentives for Efficiency and Productivity

  • The movement played a central role in the Progressive Era in the US, where it flourished 1890-1932.

• The Women's Suffrage Movement

  • After 1900, the groups made a new argument to the effect that women's superior characteristics, especially purity, made their votes essential to promoting the reforms of the Progressive Era, particularly Prohibition, and exposing political corruption .

• Types of Ballots

  • Progressivists attacked the long ballot during the Progressive Era.

• The Two-Party System

  • This period also corresponded to the Progressive Era, and was dominated by the Republican Party.
  • Experts debate whether this era ended in the mid-1960s when the New Deal coalition did, the early 1980s when the Moral Majority and the Reagan coalition were formed, the mid-1990s during the Republican Revolution, or continues to the present.

• The Democratic Party

  • The Democratic Party is a major political party in the US which promotes a social liberal, social democratic and progressive platform.
  • Since the 1930s, the party has promoted a social liberal, social democratic and progressive platform, and its Congressional caucus is composed of progressives, liberals, centrists, and left-libertarians.
  • Historically, the party has favored farmers, laborers, labor unions, and religious and ethnic minorities; it has opposed unregulated business and finance, and favored progressive income taxes.
  • The major influences for liberalism were labor unions (which peaked in the 1936–1952 era), and the African American wing, which has steadily grown since the 1960s.
  • Democrats believe government should play a role in alleviating poverty and social injustice and use a system of progressive taxation.

• The Modern Era of Political Parties

  • Since the division of the Republican Party in the election of 1912, it has positioned itself as progressive and supporting labor in economic as well as social matters.

• Party Organization

  • Political scientists and historians have divided the development of America's two-party system into five eras.
  • The Democratic Party, since the division of the Republican Party in the election of 1912, has positioned itself as progressive and supporting labor in economic as well as social matters.