Title: The Progressive era : primary documents on events from 1890 to 1914 /
Authors: Burt, Elizabeth V., 1943-
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Progressivism (United States politics) Sources.; American newspapers.; United States History Sources.
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.