Progressive Era
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Progressive Era
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Progressives
Progressives: Reformers work to change/address problems
created by industrialization Three main goals:
1. Improve living conditions2. Regulate business3. Make the gov’t responsive
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Muckrakers
Journalists who exposes “raked up” garbage
Publicized social problems
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Muckraker Journalists
Ida Tarbell Exposed Rockefeller’s oil co. for
poor business practices Lincoln Steffens
Shame of Cities > corrupt city gov’t
Upton Sinclair The Jungle > poor meat & food
conditions Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives > photos chronicled urban poor
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Social Reformers
Ida B. Wells Against discrimination &
lynching
Jane Addams Settlement houses (Hull
House)
Florence Kelly Against harsh child labor
practices
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Labor Reforms
1908 Muller v. Oregon 10-hr work day for women
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Safety issues! 140 died *Turning point for reform
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Unions
International Ladies Garment Workers Union 1900 ILGWU organized unskilled (including women) Won shorter work week & higher wages
Industrial Workers of the World 1905 IWW organized unskilled Known as “Wobblies” > used traditional & radical tactics
(sabotage) Lost support because of “radical extremes”
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Political Reformers
Robert LaFollete “Wisconsin Idea” Wanted election reforms (limit
campaign spending, state regulatory commissions)
Frances Willard Led WCTU > temperance &
women’s rights Susan B. Anthony
NWSA > campaigned for constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage (voting)
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Election Reforms
17th Amendment Voters directly elect U.S. Senators
Initiative Voters put a proposed law on ballot
Referendum Citizens place recent law on ball to approve or
reject Recall
Remove an elected official
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Anti-Discriminatory Organizations
NAACP Nat’l Advancement for the
Association of Colored People WEB DuBois helped organize Equality and rights for minorities
ADL Anti-Defamation League Led by Sigmund Livingston Reduce prejudice against Jews