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Progressive Oklahoma: The Making of a New Kind of State

Progressive Oklahoma: The Making of a New Kind of State

Goble, Danney

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceRegional: Southwest

ISBN10: 0806148616
ISBN13: 9780806148618
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Jul 1 2015
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Progressive Oklahoma traces Oklahoma's rapid evolution from pioneer territory to statehood under a model Progressive constitution. Author Danney Goble reasons that the Progressive movement grew as a reaction to an exaggerated species of Gilded Age social values--the notion that an expanding marketplace and unfettered individualism would properly regulate progress.

Near the end of the territorial era, that notion was challenged: commercial farmers and trade unionists saw a need to control the market through collective effort, and the sudden appearance of new corporate powers convinced many that the invisible hand of the marketplace had become palsied. After years of territorial setbacks, Oklahoma Democrats readily embraced the Progressive agenda and swept the 1906 constitutional convention elections. They went on to produce for their state a constitution that incorporated such landmark Progressive features as the initiative and referendum, strict corporate regulation, sweeping tax reform, a battery of social justice measures, and provisions for state-owned enterprises.

Goble is keenly aware that the Oklahoma experience was closely related to broader changes that shaped the nation at the turn of the century. Progressive Oklahoma examines the elemental changes that transformed Indian Territory into a new kind of state, and its inhabitants into Oklahomans--and modern Americans.

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