THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
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The nation went through an economic depression.
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Ida B. Wells began her anti-lynching campaign.
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W. E. B. DuBois and Jane Addams founded the NAACP.
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President Wilson ordered the segregation of workers in the civil service.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which event contributed to a spike in lynching after 1893? The nation went through an economic depression. Ida B. Wells began her anti-lynching campaign.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Panic of 1893 was a national economic crisis set off by the collapse of two of the country’s largest employers, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company. Following of the failure of these two companies, a panic erupted on the stock market.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was triggered by a collapse in cotton prices. A contraction in credit coincided with the problems in the cotton market, and the young American economy was severely affected. Banks were forced to call in loans, and foreclosures of farms and bank failures resulted.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Denver Depression of 1893 was the economic and psychological depression of Denver, Colorado, that began in 1893 after the rapid drop in the price of silver and lasted for several years.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn that began in the fall of 1929 and did not end in many places until the Second World War. It was triggered in large part by a sudden crash of the American stock market on October 29, a day widely known as Black Tuesday.