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American Portraits: Jane Addams
Jane Addams, c. 1912.
Photograph.
“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.”
Jane Addams
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HIST 180 Survey of American History
Jane Addams, c. 1912.
Photograph.
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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Rise of the Progressives: A New Century Begins
Timeline: A New Century Begins
Freedom and the Progressive State
City Life: The Ashcan School
Industrial Freedom and Socialism
A Living Wage and Consumption
Progressive Limits
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1. Timeline: A New Century Begins
1900 William McKinley reelected president, again defeating William Jennings Bryan.
1901 McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
Socialist Party of America organized.
1901-11 US intervenes in the affairs of Central American counties, including Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua, including military invasions of Cuba (1906) and Nicaragua (1911).
1902 Roosevelt launches successful antitrust action against Northern Securities.
Roosevelt elected, defeating Dem. Alan Parker and Socialist Eugene Debs.
Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities published.
Niagara Movement formed to agitate for integration and civil rights for African Americans.
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle published.
Meat Packing Act and Pure Food and Drug acts passed.
1907 Financial panic; Roosevelt turns to J.P. Morgan and bankers for help.
Roosevelt convenes National Conservation Congress.
William Howard Taft elected president, defeating Bryan and Debs.
1909 Taft inaugurates “Dollar Diplomacy” in China and Latin America.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded.
Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management published.
Standard Oil and American Tobacco trusts dissolved.
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2. Freedom and the Progressive State
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906.
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Theodore Roosevelt, c. 1910.
Photograph.
Progressive Aims:
Destroy power of trusts
Protect consumers
Eliminate cutthroat competition
Industrial Freedom in the workplace
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Theodore Roosevelt, c. 1910.
Photograph.
Progressive Accomplishments:
New administrative agencies
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Trade Commission
Laws establishing parameters for labor relations, business behavior, financial policy.
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
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3. City Life: The Ashcan School
George Bellows, New York, 1909.
Oil on canvas.
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Robert Henri, Snow in New York, 1902.
Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art.
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Everett Shinn, Robert Henri, John Sloane, ca. 1896
Photograph.
“Do it all in one sitting if you can. In one minute if you can.”
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri, Paddy Flanigan, 1908.
Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Robert Henri, Willie Gee, 1904.
Oil on canvas. Newark Museum.
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William Glackens, At Mouquin’s, 1905.
Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago
Everett Shinn, Footlight Flirtation, 1912.
Oil on canvas. Arthur G. Altschul Collection.
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John Sloan, Hairdresser’s Window, 1907.
Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey’s, 1909.
Oil on canvas. Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Theodore Roosevelt at various stages in life: dude cowboy, Rough Rider, President of the United States.
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George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey’s, 1909.
Oil on canvas. Cleveland Museum of Art.
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George Bellows, Both Members of This Club, 1909.
Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art.
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Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson fight for the heavyweight championship, Reno, 1910.
Photograph.
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4. Immigration and Socialism
George Luks, Hester Street, 1905.
Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum of Art.
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John Sloan, Ludlow, Colorado (Class War in Colorado), 1914.
Lithographic crayon on paper.
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5. A Living Wage and Consumption
William Glackens, The Shoppers, 1907.
Oil on canvas.
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6. Progressive Limits
Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities, 1904.
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
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Lewis Hine, Sadie Pfeifer, 1908.
Photograph.
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Lewis Hine, Newsboys, 1908.
Photograph.
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John Sloan, A Woman’s Work, 1912.
Oil on canvas.
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