Progressive Era

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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 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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Populist movement influenced Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive movement
Revenue Act of 1918 timePeriod Progressive Era
Webb–Kenyon Act historicalPeriod Progressive Era
George Pardee movement Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressivism
Pine Tree Lumber Company historicalEra Progressive Era
Julia Lathrop movement Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era reform movement
William Rutherford Mead era Progressive Era
Edith Rockefeller McCormick era Progressive Era
Samuel Untermyer era Progressive Era
History of Philadelphia includesPeriod Progressive Era
Ruth Livingston Mills era Progressive Era
Villa Lewaro era Progressive Era
Lyman Cornelius Smith era Progressive Era
Pure Sociology historicalContext Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era in the United States
United States presidential election, 1900 tookPlaceDuring Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era (early phase)
Brandeis Brief historicalContext Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era in the United States
Leon Czolgosz historicalPeriod Progressive Era
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt era Progressive Era
Uprising of the 20,000 timePeriod Progressive Era
Lee, Higginson & Co. era Progressive Era
Theodore Roosevelt administration partOf Progressive Era
home economics movement influencedBy Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era reform
home economics movement relatedConcept Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era domestic reform
George W. Perkins movement Progressive Era
George W. Perkins era Progressive Era
59th United States Congress historicalContext Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era in the United States
Joseph Gurney Cannon era Progressive Era
Arizona Constitution influencedBy Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era reforms
Mina Miller Edison livedDuring Progressive Era
Weeks–McLean Act amendments historicalPeriod Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era conservation movement
Barnett, Haynes & Barnett era Progressive Era
John Hessin Clarke (as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) era Progressive Era
subject surface form: John Hessin Clarke
Bullfrog mining district timePeriod Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era in United States history
On Active Service in Peace and War historicalPeriodCovered Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era in the United States
60th United States Congress era Progressive Era
64th United States Congress era Progressive Era
Anna Wilmarth Ickes movement Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressivism
Inez Milholland era Progressive Era
mental hygiene movement historicalPeriod Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era in the United States
Florence Harding livedDuring Progressive Era
Boy Pioneers of America historicalPeriod Progressive Era
this entity surface form: Progressive Era United States
Abigail Greene Aldrich livedDuring Progressive Era
Kuser family historicalEra Progressive Era
Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. timePeriod Progressive Era