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In the [[United States]], the '''Progressive Era''' was a movement of [[reform]] that began in America's cities in the [[1890s]] and lasted through the [[1910s]]. Reformers sought change in labor and fiscal policies in different levels of government; initially it was successful at local level, and then it progressed to state and gradually national.

Many reforms dotted this era, including [[Prohibition]] with the [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|18th Amendment]] and [[women's suffrage]] through the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]] to the U.S. Constitution, both in 1920 as well as the initiation of the [[Income Tax]] with the [[Sixteenth Amendment]]

and [[Direct election of Senators]] with the [[Seventeenth Amendment]]. [[Muckraker]]s, a term given to the reaction-producing writers of the time period by President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (1901-1909), were among some of the best examples of progressive reformers. Progressives shared a common belief in the ability of human nature to improve by bettering its living and working conditions.

Another famous progressive of the era was [[Robert M. La Follette, Sr.]]

==Related topics==

*[[Haymarket Riot]]

*[[Pullman Strike]]

*[[Triangle Factory fire]]

*[[Trust-busting]]

*[[History of the United States (1865-1918)]]

==External links==

*[http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/progressive.html Progressive Era History Resources]