Documents of Progressive Era

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Muckrakers, Intellectuals, and Reformers

• Phillips, David Graham, Susan Lenox
• Riis, Jacob, How the Other Half Lives
• Roosevelt, Theodore, Selected Works [Hunting Trips of a Ranchman[1885]; Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. [1896]. The Rough Riders. [1899]. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children. [1919].

Cities during the Progressive Era

• The Lure of the Past, the Present and Future
• A Trip to the City, or At the Phone Booth
• General Comments on the Progress of Los Angeles
• The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
• Progressive Reforms Affected Cities in Many Ways
• Photo Collage of New York City in the Early 1900s
• Photographs of Urbanization

Conservation during the Progressive Era

• A Letter from President Roosevelt
• Report of the National Conservation Commission
• Man and the Earth
• The Lay of the Land
• The Fight for Conservation
• Conservation by Sanitation
• The Necessity of Conserving Our Resources

Prohibition

• Every Attempt to Legislate Morals Resulted in Disaster
• Money That Was Poured Out in the Gutter
• Only Suckers Work
• Harlem Rent Parties
• John L. Sullivan, the Boston Strong Boy
• The Do-Everything Policy
• The Temperance Army (Song Lyrics)

Woman’s Suffrage

• Women and the Alphabet
• Women's Sphere Cartoon
• The Importance of Women's Influence in All Religious and Benevolent Societies
• The Remonstrance
• Why Women Should Vote
• The Blue Book
• Robert La Follette on Women's Public Role

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