The Progressive Era

  • Transcedentalist

    Transcedentalist

    The transcedentalist movement was based on the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought.This philosophy was started by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Abolitionist

    Abolitionist

    An abolitionist is a person who wanted the bannishment of slavery
  • Temperance

    Temperance

    This was a movement to reduce the use of alcoholic drinks
  • Seneca Falls

    Seneca Falls

    These were womens conventions over the issues of women rights
  • Free Soils

    Free Soils

    This political party opposed to extension of slavery in the new found territtories
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans

    The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "radicals" and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described "conservatives" (in the South) and "Liberals" (in the North).
  • Populist Party

    Populist Party

    A U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency.
  • Labor Unions

    Labor Unions

    labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions.
  • Progressive Era

    Progressive Era

    The Progressive Era in the United States was a period of social activism and political reform