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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
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An Urban Age and a Consumer Society
Varieties of Progressivism
The Politics of Progressivism
The Progressive Presidents
Sixth Avenue and Thirtieth Street
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An Urban Age and a
Consumer Society
 Focus Question:
Why was the city such a central element
in Progressive America?
An Urban Age and a
Consumer Society:
Urbanism
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Farms and Cities
The Muckrakers
Table 18.1 Rise of the City, 1880–1920
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A rare color photograph from around 1900 shows the
teeming life of Mulberry Street in New York City.
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Policemen stare up as the Triangle fire of 1911 rages.
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City of Ambition, 1910
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An Urban Age and a
Consumer Society:
Global Immigration
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Immigration as a Global Process
Map 18.1 The World on the Move, World Migration
1815–1914
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The mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt II on
New York City’s Fifth Avenue
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Two photographs by Lewis Hine
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An Urban Age and a
Consumer Society:
immigrants to america
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The Immigrant Quest for Freedom
An illustration in the 1912
publication The New Immigration
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An Urban Age and a
Consumer Society:
Economics
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Consumer Freedom
The Working Woman
Immigrant from Mexico, 1912
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Table 18.2 Immigrants and Their Children as
Percentage of Population, Ten Major Cities, 1920
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A community settlement map for Chicago in 1900
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An Urban Age and a
Consumer Society:
Ford
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The Rise of Fordism
An immigrant from Mexico
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An Urban Age and a
Consumer Society:
living standards
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The Promise of Abundance
An American Standard of Living
Table 18.3 Percentage of Women 14 Years and
Older in the Labor Force, 1900–1930
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Table 18.4 Percentage of Women Workers in
Various Occupations, 1900–1920
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Movie, 5 Cents
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Women at work in a shoe factory, 1908
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The Return from Toil, John Sloan
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The assembly line at the Ford Motor
Company factory in Highland Park, Michigan
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Varieties of
Progressivism
 Focus Question:
How did the labor and women's
movements challenge the nineteenthcentury meanings of American freedom?
Varieties of
Progressivism: Labor
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Industrial Freedom
Table 18.5 Sales of Passenger Cars, 1900–1925
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One day’s output of Model T Fords
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Early-twentieth-century advertisement invoking the
Statue of Liberty to market consumer goods
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Ad for Palmolive Soap
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Varieties of
Progressivism:
Socialism
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The Socialist Presence
The Gospel of Debs
Map 18.2 Socialist Town and Cities, 1900–1920
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Roller skaters with socialist leaflets during a
New York City strike, 1916
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Varieties of
Progressivism: unions
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American Federation of Labor (AFL) and
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
One Big Union, the emblem of the Industrial
Workers of the World
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Varieties of
Progressivism: Strikes
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The New Immigrants on Strike
Labor and Civil Liberties
Striking New York City garment workers, 1913
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The New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 inspired
workers in other cities.
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Varieties of
Progressivism:
Sexuality
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The New Feminism
The Rise of Personal Freedom
A sheet music cover, with a modern woman erasing
the word “obey” from marriage vows
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Isadora Duncan brought a new freedom to
an old art form.
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Emma Goldman, speaking in favor of birth control
to an almost entirely male crowd in New York City
in 1916
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Varieties of
Progressivism: Women
and Indians
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The Birth-Control Movement
Native American Progressivism
The much-beloved and much-feared Emma Goldman,
with a poster advertising a series of her lectures
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Mothers with baby carriages wait outside
Margaret Sanger’s birth-control clinic in
Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1915.
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The Politics of
Progressivism
 Focus Question:
In what ways did Progressivism include
both democratic and antidemocratic
impulses?
The Politics of
Progressivism: Reform
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Effective Freedom
State and Local Reforms
Children at play at the Hudson-Bank Gymnasium,
New York City, 1898
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The Politics of
Progressivism:
Contradictions
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Progressive Democracy
Government by Expert
The Politics of
Progressivism: Women
Reformers
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Jane Addams and Hull House
“Spearheads for Reform”
A staff member greets an immigrant
family at Hull House, the settlement house
established in Chicago by Jane Addams.
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Visiting nurse on a New York City rooftop, 1908
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The Politics of
Progressivism: voting
and maternalism
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The Campaign for Woman Suffrage
Maternalist Reform
Suffrage Float
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Louisine Havemeyer
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Louis D. Brandeis
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The Politics of
Progressivism:
brandeis
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The Idea of Economic Citizenship
The Progressive
Presidents
 Focus Question:
How did the Progressive presidents foster
the rise of the nation-state?
The Progressive
Presidents: Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
President Theodore Roosevelt addressing a
crowd in Evanston, Illinois, in 1902
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The Progressive
Presidents: economics
and nature
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Roosevelt and Economic Regulation
John Muir and the Spirituality of Nature
The Conservation Movement
Putting the Screws on Him, 1904
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The Old Faithful Geyser
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Theodore Roosevelt and the conservationist John Muir
at Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, 1906
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The Progressive
Presidents: Taft
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Taft in Office
Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party candidate,
speaking in Chicago
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The Progressive
Presidents: 1912 election
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The Election of 1912
New Freedom and New Nationalism
The Progressive
Presidents: Wilson
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Wilson’s First Term
The Expanding Role of Government
Map 18.3 The Presidential Election of 1912
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Review
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An Urban Age and a Consumer Society
Focus Question: Why was the city such a central element in
Progressive America?
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Varieties of Progressivism
Focus Question: How did the labor and women's movements challenge
the nineteenth-century meanings of American freedom?
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The Politics of Progressivism
Focus Question: In what ways did Progressivism include both
democratic and antidemocratic impulses?
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The Progressive Presidents
Focus Question: How did the Progressive presidents foster the rise of
the nation-state?
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Eric Foner on Progressivism, pt 1:
women's roles
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Eric Foner on Progressivism, pt 2:
impact on American democracy
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Eric Foner on Progressivism, pt 3:
battles over freedom
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Eric Foner on American consumerism
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Eric Foner on Margaret Sanger's fight
for birth control
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Eric Foner on spiritual belief in the
environmental movement
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Safe for Democracy: The
United States and
World War I, 1916–1920
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An Era of Intervention
America and the Great War
The War at Home
Who Is an American?
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