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1876-1920

Gilded Age and Progressive Reforms

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Theodore Roosevelt Popular President in the early 1900s who led the US into a position as a world power
Woodrow Wilson President during WWI who had a role in the peacemaking after WWI
Susan B. Anthony Reform leader for women's rights and prohibition
W.E.B. DuBois Founder of the NAACP and leader of reforms benefiting African-Americas
US Expantion and Imperialism The US built the Panama Canal, engaged in Spanish-American War, got overseas colonial possessions, initiated the Open Door Policy with China, stated intentions to become involved in Latin America with the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, WWI
Labor Unions Big business increased and individuals became Robber Barons, US workers began to unite to bargain for better working conditions/wages.
Robber Barons John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and others who gained wealth and power through the growth of big business.
Labor Unions Early efforts by leaders such as Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labow (AFL), United Mine Workers, and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) led to strikes, violence, and eventually concessions by factory workers
Farm Issues Low prices for agricultrual products and a lack of voice in an industrialized nation led farmers to organize in groups such as the Grange and the Populist Party.
Farm Issues Increased production and higher prices for crops during WWI led farmers to increase production and land use too quickly. Farmers borrowed large sums to purchase more land. As a result, farmers were hard hit by the depression in the 1920's, many lost farms
Rise of Big Business Industrial giants grew (Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, railroads, and tocacco) and created monopolies, small businesses forced out of competition.
Rise of Big Business Theodore Roosevelt, nicknamed the "trustbuster" responded to the abuse of big business and trusts pointed out by the muckrakers, and led new laws such as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to regulate big business.
Treatment of Minorities (including women) and Child Labor The Progressives too on the issues of poor treatments of women/children in the workplace. Reform effort laws were passed to regulate wages and hours for workers. Treatment of minorities improved after WWI through organizations such as the NAACP & LULAC.
World War I US involved because of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans, Treaty of Versailles, Wilson's Fourteen Points
Trends of Gilded Age and Progressive Reforms Industrialization, Migration (Blacks from the rural South to the major cities of the North), Immigration (limited by 1920, with increasing fear and distrust of foreigners), Urbanization
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