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The American Historical Review Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 1993) , pp. 412-431 (20 pages) Published By: Oxford University Press https://doi.org/10.2307/2166841 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2166841 Read and download Log in through your school or library Alternate access options For independent researchers Read Online Read 100 articles/month free Subscribe to JPASS Unlimited reading + 10 downloads Purchase article $39.00 - Download now and later Read Online (Free) relies on page scans, which are not currently available to screen readers. To access this article, please contact JSTOR User Support. We'll provide a PDF copy for your screen reader.With a personal account, you can read up to 100 articles each month for free. Get StartedAlready have an account? Log in Monthly Plan
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Journal Information The American Historical Review (AHR) is the official publication of the American Historical Association (AHA). The AHA was founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889 to serve the interests of the entire discipline of history. Aligning with the AHA’s mission, the AHR has been the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States since 1895—the only journal that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. The AHR is unparalleled in its efforts to choose articles that are new in content and interpretation and that make a contribution to historical knowledge. The journal also publishes approximately one thousand book reviews per year, surveying and reporting the most important contemporary historical scholarship in the discipline. Publisher Information Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. OUP is the world's largest university press with the widest global presence. It currently publishes more than 6,000 new publications a year, has offices in around fifty countries, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing program that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and academic journals. Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. The Progressive movement was a political and social-reform movement that brought major changes to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this time, known as the Progressive Era, the movement’s goals involved strengthening the national government and addressing people’s economic, social, and political demands. Progressives saw elements of American society that they wished to reform, especially ending the extreme concentration of wealth among the elite and the enormous economic and political power of big business.  The U.S. population nearly doubled between 1870 and 1900. Increasing immigration and urbanization had helped the shift from small-scale manufacturing and commerce to large-scale factory production and enormous national corporations. Starting in the 1870s, a period of excessive materialism and political corruption took hold in the United States. Called the Gilded Age, this era featured the concentration of enormous amounts of wealth among a small elite. Industrial activity and corporate growth exploded—from 1863 to 1899 manufacturing production rose by more than 800 percent—but the profits largely went to a small number of entrepreneurs called “robber barons,” who established monopolies and hoarded their wealth. Meanwhile, many laborers lived in poverty and had little power. The leaders of the Progressive Era worked on a range of overlapping issues that characterized the time, including labor rights, women’s suffrage, economic reform, environmental protections, and the welfare of the poor, including poor immigrants. Labor unionscontinued to press for better economic and working conditions. Prominent issues at the time were the demand for an eight-hour workday, restrictions on child labor, higher wages, and workplace safety conditions. Laborers often worked in sweatshop conditions. They worked extremely long hours, received little pay, and toiled in factories with few safety regulations. On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out in a clothing factory in New York, New York. The overcrowded and unsafe building had doors that had been locked to prevent theft, and 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, died in the flames or fell to their deaths trying to escape. The uproar over this tragedy, known as the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, led to the creation of the Factory Investigating Commission in New York. The commission’s research led to the passage of more than 30 health and safety laws, including fire codes and child labor restrictions. Journalist Upton Sinclair belonged to a class of investigative reporters called muckrakers, because they were said to rake up the muck, or dirt, hiding in society. Sinclair spent time investigating labor conditions in Chicago, Illinois’s meat slaughterhouses and packaging plants and used his findings to write the novel The Jungle (1906). He had hoped to bring to the public’s attention the poor conditions the workers suffered, but people were more affected by the vivid descriptions of disgusting and unsanitary practices in the food-processing facilities. Public sentiment and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s own reaction to the novel led to the passing of regulations for the food industry, including the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, both in 1906. Increased urbanization meant huge jumps in population density. Urban centers soon had many neighborhoods full of overcrowded, dangerous, unsanitary tenements. Photojournalist Jacob Riis captured powerful images of the suffering he witnessed in poor New York City neighborhoods and published them in his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives. People were shocked and touched by seeing the pictures and pushed for legislation and aid that would help the poorest Americans. Progressive leaders such as Jane Addams, one of the founders of the settlement house Hull House in Chicago, worked within the neighborhoods to improve conditions, helping immigrants and other disenfranchised groups access necessary services. Economic reformers wanted to curb the excesses and inequalities of the Gilded Age. Public sentiment was against monopolies, and legislators worked to regulate the massive corporations that wielded economic and political power. In response to monopolies in the railroad and steel industries, the Sherman Antitrust Act, passed in 1890, helped to break up and prevent monopolies and trusts. Beginning in 1902 muckraker Ida Tarbell wrote a series of articles, later published as The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), exposing corruption behind one of the largest trusts, the Standard Oil Company. In the 1912 presidential election Wisconsin governor Robert M. La Follette failed to win the Republican nomination, as did former president Theodore Roosevelt who had left the White House in 1909 but now hoped to secure another term. Instead, the Republicans decided that incumbent President William Howard Taft should represent them in the general election. La Follette had formed the National Republican Progressive League in 1911, and the League became the Progressive Party (better known as the Bull Moose Party) in 1912. After Roosevelt’s quest for the Republican nomination failed, the Progressive Party chose him to be its presidential nominee. (The party’s popular nickname of Bull Moose was derived from the characteristics of strength and vigor often used by Roosevelt to describe himself.) The Bull Moose ticket of Roosevelt and vice presidential running mate, Hiram W. Johnson, split the Republican vote, resulting in a win for the Democrats under Woodrow Wilson. With America’s entry intoWorld War I, the Progressive movement fractured. However, many of the organizations founded during the Progressive Era, such as labor unions and professional and civic groups, continued to play significant roles in American society. 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