Progressive Era

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historical era reform movement

The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform in the United States, roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s, aimed at addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and political corruption.

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All labels observed (21)

Label	Occurrences
Progressive Era canonical	128
Progressive Era in the United States	17
Progressive Era United States	11
Progressivism	7
Progressive Era reform movement	3
Progressive Era reforms	3
Progressive Era in United States history	2
Progressive Era reform	2
Progressive movement	2
Progressive Era (early 20th century)	1
Progressive Era (early phase)	1
Progressive Era conservation movement	1
Progressive Era domestic reform	1
Progressive Era literature	1
Progressive Era politics	1
Progressive Era reform movements	1
Progressive movement in the United States	1
Progressive reform movement	1
United States Progressive Era	1
United States in the early 20th century	1
early 20th-century United States	1

Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical era ⓘ reform movement ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	1920s ⓘ
field	American political history ⓘ American social history ⓘ
followedBy	Roaring Twenties ⓘ
goal	conservation of natural resources ⓘ efficiency in government ⓘ expansion of democracy ⓘ improvement of working conditions ⓘ moral reform ⓘ protection of consumers ⓘ reduction of political corruption ⓘ regulation of big business ⓘ social justice ⓘ
hasCause	growing economic inequality ⓘ industrialization in the United States ⓘ labor unrest ⓘ political corruption in the United States ⓘ rise of large corporations and trusts ⓘ urbanization in the United States ⓘ
hasPart	antitrust enforcement ⓘ child labor reform ⓘ civil service reform ⓘ conservation movement ⓘ direct democracy reforms ⓘ education reform ⓘ eugenics movement ⓘ food and drug regulation ⓘ immigration restriction debates ⓘ labor regulation ⓘ muckraking journalism ⓘ municipal reform ⓘ prison reform ⓘ public health campaigns ⓘ racial segregation policies ⓘ settlement house movement ⓘ temperance movement ⓘ trust-busting policies ⓘ women's suffrage movement ⓘ
influencedBy	Populist movement ⓘ Christian social gospel ⓘ surface form: Social Gospel movement scientific management ideas ⓘ
overlapsWith	World War I ⓘ
significantEvent	Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 ⓘ Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ⓘ Federal Trade Commission Act provisions ⓘ surface form: Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 Keating–Owen Child Labor Act ⓘ surface form: Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 Federal Meat Inspection Act ⓘ surface form: Meat Inspection Act of 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 ⓘ Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire ⓘ election of 1912 in the United States ⓘ formation of the Progressive Party (1912) ⓘ initiative, referendum, and recall reforms in various states ⓘ Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ surface form: presidency of Theodore Roosevelt presidency of William Howard Taft ⓘ presidency of Woodrow Wilson ⓘ
significantFigure	Alice Paul ⓘ Booker T. Washington ⓘ Carrie Chapman Catt ⓘ Florence Kelley ⓘ Gifford Pinchot ⓘ Ida B. Wells ⓘ Ida Tarbell ⓘ Jane Addams ⓘ Lincoln Steffens ⓘ Robert M. La Follette ⓘ Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ Upton Sinclair ⓘ W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ President William Howard Taft ⓘ surface form: William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson ⓘ
startTime	1890s ⓘ

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