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Title: The Progressive Era and the US Student Population: Size and Composition: 1880–1930

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89423-2_1

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Abstract: “Oh, my God, that damned cowboy’s in the White House,” Mark Hana, Senator from Ohio, and former campaign manager for William McKinley, upon hearing that Theodore Roosevelt had ascended to the Presidency after McKinley was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz.1 It began as a local social movement, but morphed into a national political movement. Progressivism changed America. Prior to the Progressive Era, the Gilded Age was defined by a Capitalism out of control: workers were exploited, corruption was rampant in government and in large corporations.2 America was industrializing, urbanizing, and immigrants from Eastern and Western Europe . . .

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-89423-2_1

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Authors: Verdugo, Richard R.

Editors: Verdugo, Richard R.

Pages: 3-29

Volume Title: American Education and the Demography of the US Student Population, 1880 – 2014

Publisher: Springer

Publisher Location: Cham

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography

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