THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
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Woodrow Wilson’s domestic policy that called for tariff, business, and banking reforms
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Name given to Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic programs; included conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
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Political party which, in the Election of 1912, supported public ownership of utilities and transportation systems, etc.
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Nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Teddy Roosevelt in the Election of 1912
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Socialist Party was founded not long after India’s independence when Jayprakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Basawon Singh (Sinha), Acharya Narendra Dev led the CSP out of Congress.