The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

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3 The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

Introduction to The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era … 117

PRIMARY SOURCES

How the Other Half Lives … 118
Jacob A. Riis, c. 1885

Waifs of the City Slums …. 120
Jacob A. Riis, 1890

Coxey's Army … 124
Anonymous, 1894

The Greatest Issue of the Day… 127
Lizzie Black Kander, 1900

Platform of the Populists … 129
The Populist Party, 1896

Plessy v. Ferguson… 132
Henry Billings Brown, 1896

The Jungle … 136
Upton Sinclair, 1906

What Roosevelt Stands For … 141
Anonymous, 1912

Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution … 145
Anonymous, 1919

The Need for Safety from the Worker's Point of View …. 147
William Green, 1926

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