Progressive movement, 1900-1920--efforts to reform America's new industrial society

A short study of big business monopolies in America during the early twentieth century and efforts by the government to break up the trusts.

A short study of the struggle to gain rights for the American workforce during the early twentieth century, examining child labor laws and efforts to reform big business.

A short study of the Temperance Movement of the early twentieth century, examining efforts to pass anti-liquor laws and Prohibition.

Presents an introduction to early twentieth century immigration in the United States, providing information on the living conditions in tenement homes, the push toward westward expansion, and the role and development of settlement homes.