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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