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Progressivism
By:
The Seat of My Pants
Progressivism
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Populism 
Progressism 
New Deal
Populism
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Increase practice of democracy
Economic and political reform
Populism
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Farmers—South and West
Old Stock, religiously conservative
Populism
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Xenophobic
Cannot connect with Urban workers
(immigrants)
Populism
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Movement fails in 1896
Bryan vs. McKinley
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Generates ideas for the future
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Progressivism
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Overwhelmingly white middle class and
Protestant
Strong support from clergy
Progressivism
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Could find common cause with farmers to
achieve some of their goals
Continued to have a hard time reaching the
Urban Immigrant Worker
Progressivism
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Believed that the growth of large corporations
under laissez faire had created conditions where
 Hamiltonian
Means must be used
to achieve Jeffersonian Goals
Progressivism
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Muckrakers
Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson
Progressivism
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Progressivism is effectively brought to an end by
US entry into the First World War