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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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical era → reform movement →
country	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 → Social Gospel movement → scientific management ideas →
overlapsWith	World War I →
significantEvent	16th Amendment to the United States Constitution → 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution → 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution → 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution → Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 → Federal Reserve Act of 1913 → Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 → Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 → 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 → 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 → William Howard Taft → Woodrow Wilson →
startTime	1890s →

Referenced by (62)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
58th United States Congress → Asa Griggs Candler → Frederick T. Gates → George Harvey → Hepburn Act → James Gillett → Louis D. Brandeis → Louise Whitfield → McKim, Mead & White → Radley Steel Construction Company → Richard Olney → Samuel Gompers →	era
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → Judicial Code of 1911 → Lever Act → Militia Act of 1903 → New York high society → Niagara Movement → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → Organic Act of 1916 ("Progressive Era in the United States") → United States Railroad Administration →	historicalPeriod
Empire State Express → Fundamentalist–modernist controversy → Hiram Johnson ("Progressive Era in the United States") → Jamestown Exposition → Louisiana Purchase Exposition → Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge → The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book ("Progressive Era United States") → United States Department of Commerce and Labor → Waddell & Hardesty →	timePeriod
Al Smith ("Progressivism") → Jane Addams → John Peter Altgeld ("Progressivism") → Upton Sinclair ("Progressivism") → William English Walling ("Progressive Era reform movement") →	movement
Aldrich–Vreeland Act → American Federation of Labor → Progressive Party (United States, 1912) → Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution →	historicalEra
American liberalism → Fourth Party System → Hull House →	associatedWith
Feminist Alliance ("Progressive Era in the United States") → The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets ("Progressive Era United States") →	historicalContext
Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ("Progressive Era in the United States") →	category
American Renaissance architecture →	developedIn
American Craftsman style ("United States Progressive Era") →	emergedIn
United States constitutional history ("Progressive Era in the United States") →	focusesOnPeriod
Gilded Age →	followedBy
Carnegie libraries →	hasTimePeriod
American nationalism ("Progressive Era United States") →	historicalDevelopment
History of New York City →	includesPeriod
61st United States Congress →	legislativePeriod
Twenty Years at Hull-House ("Progressive Era literature") →	literaryMovement
Our National Parks →	literaryPeriod
63rd United States Congress →	locatedInTimePeriod
Twenty Years at Hull-House →	mainSubject
Newer Ideals of Peace →	movementContext
Woodrow Wilson administration →	partOf
Square Deal ("Progressivism") →	politicalIdeology
Teapot Dome scandal ("Progressive Era reform movements") →	precededBy
Democracy and Social Ethics →	setInPeriod