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American History: The Progressive Era & World War   

With the unexpected presidency of Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 after the assassination of America's Gilded Age beloved president William McKinley, the so-called "Progressive Era" of American History began. Worker security, Women's Voting Rights, and Social Sobriety were all substantially improved - but Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilsons' ideas of "the Progressive Era" were not necessarily what 21st Century Americans would call "progressive" in retrospect. After promising that America would not become involved in a European War on the eve of his re-election in 1916, President Wilson got the U.S. into the very conflict he promised to avoid at the cost of over 100,000 lives of soldiers, sailors and aviators. The Spanish Flu Pandemic cost the lives of 800,000 Americans without the president even acknowledging an emergency existed. The Lochner Era of the U.S. Supreme Court was an attempt by the conservative justices to defeat the Progressive Era's new laws and return the country to the Gilded Age. Join us for the play by play as the U.S. struggled to become civilized.

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