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Progressive Era
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
Muckrakers
Journalists who exposes “raked up” garbage
Publicized social problems
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
Social Reformers
Ida B. Wells Against discrimination &
lynching
Jane Addams Settlement houses (Hull
House)
Florence Kelly Against harsh child labor
practices
Labor Reforms
1908 Muller v. Oregon 10-hr work day for women
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Safety issues! 140 died *Turning point for reform
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”
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)
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
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
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