CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: URBAN AMERICA AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA,

Unifying Themes

            Social Darwinism v. Social Gospel

Women Spearhead Reform

            Jane Adams, Florence Kelly

Political Progressives

            Cities

            West

            South

New Journalism: Muckraking

Intellectual Trends Promoting Reform

            Lester Frank Ward

            John Dewey

            Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Prohibition Movement

The Social Evil

The Redemption of Leisure

Standardizing Education

New Immigrants from Two Hemispheres

Urban Ghettos

Company Towns

The AFL: “Unions, Pure and Simple”

The IWW: “One Big Union”

Rebels in Bohemia

The New Woman

Birth Control

Racism and Accommodation

            Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois

Racial Justice, the NAACP, Black Women's Activism

Theodore Roosevelt and Presidential Activism

Trustbusting and Regulation

Conservation, Preservation, and the Environment

Republican Split

The Election of 1912: A Four-Way Race

Woodrow Wilson’s First Term