Resources for the Progressive Era & America's Rise to World Power, 1896-1920

DOCUMENTS:

• Theodore Roosevelt on Progressive Issues:
  • Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural, 1905
• Theodore Roosevelt on Labor Issues and Collective Bargaining
• TR on Trusts
• Conservation
• The "New Nationalism"--1910
• Progressive Party Acceptance Speech, 1912
• The Populist Party Platform of 1892
• Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities"
• For a Web Site on Steffens and His Work Click Here
• For an Excerpt go to-> Steffens, Excerpt
• Upton Sinclair:  "The Jungle"
• Click here for the Entire Novel
• For an excerpt see -> Sinclair, The Jungle
• The Socialist Party Platform of 1912
• Woodrow Wilson: The New Freedom
• Jane Addams on Women in Government
• Presidents Taft and Wilson on Dollar Diplomacy
• Hammer v. Dagenhart & Lochner v. New York

Important Dates of the Progressive Era

DOCUMENTS

• President Cleveland on Hawaii
• McKinley's Message on Cuba
• The Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
• The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
• Alfred Thayer Mahan: Looking Outward
• The Teller Amendment
• Albert J. Beveridge on the New American Empire
• Walter Hines page on the S-A War
• John Hay's Open Door Policy
• Woodrow Wilson's Plea for Neutrality in 1914
• Woodrow Wilson: "Peace without Victory," 1917
• Woodrow Wilson's War Message, April 2, 1917
• Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
• Senate Opposition to Wilson's War Message of 1917
• The Zimmermann Telegram
• Brigham Young University has a World War I site with many documents and links, located by students Ray Livengood and Ivy Colon Rodriguez.