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The Progressive era : primary documents on events from 1890 to 1914
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The Progressive era : primary documents on events from 1890 to 1914

Author: Elizabeth V Burt
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Series: Debating historical issues in the media of the time
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Beginning with an extensive overview essay of the period, this book focuses on the issues of the Progressive Era through contemporary accounts of the people involved. Each issue is presented with an introductory essay and multiple primary documents from the newspapers of the day, which illustrate both sides of the debate. This is a perfect resource for students interested in the controversial and tumultuous changes A Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth V Burt
ISBN: 0313320977 9780313320972
OCLC Number: 53972195
Description: xvi, 382 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The census of 1890 measures American life and defines some of its problems -- The death of Sitting Bull and the Battle of Wounded Knee, December 1890 -- Nativist fears limit Chinese immigration, May 1892 -- The Homestead Strike pits labor against management, 1892 -- Lynch Law terrorizes Blacks in the South -- Coxey's army marches on Washington, 1894 -- The sinking of the Maine, February 15, 1898 -- The Treaty of Paris launches America as an imperialist power, December 10, 1898 -- The turn of the century brings hopes and fears -- President William McKinley is assassinated, September 6, 1901 -- America backs the Panamanian Revolution, November 1903 -- The Socialist Party challenges the status quo, 1904 -- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911 -- The Titanic disaster, April 14, 1912 -- Women demand the right to vote, 1911-1912 -- Congress adopts the federal income tax, February 1913 -- The prohibition movement gains in the states and Congress, 1900-1913 -- Women march for suffrage in Washington, March 1913 -- The seventeenth amendment reforms the Senate, May 1913 -- The Ludlow Mine Massacre, April 1914.
Series Title: Debating historical issues in the media of the time
Responsibility: [compiled by] Elizabeth V. Burt.
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Abstract:

Beginning with an extensive overview essay of the period, this book focuses on the issues of the Progressive Era through contemporary accounts of the people involved. Each issue is presented with an introductory essay and multiple primary documents from the newspapers of the day, which illustrate both sides of the debate. This is a perfect resource for students interested in the controversial and tumultuous changes America underwent during the Industrial Age and up to the start of World War I. Annotation. Beginning with an extensive overview essay of the period, this book focuses on the issues of the Progressive Era through contemporary accounts of the people involved. Each issue is presented with an introductory essay and multiple primary documents from the newspapers of the day, which illustrate both sides of the debate. This is a perfect resource for students interested in the controversial and tumultuous changes America underwent during the Industrial Age and up to the start of World War I.

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