Progressivism

Wanted to make life better through reform

• Treatment of workers was unfair and cruel– Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire in New York City

may have been worst incident– Nearly 150 women and children died

• Blacklists were exchanged between employers of those who caused trouble

• City Problems– Epidemics were common– Insufficient clean water supply and lack of sanitary

plumbing

Muckrackers

• Journalists who exposed society’s corruption• Upton Sinclair – Wrote the Jungle to expose the meat industry– Led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act

Upton Sinclair

Settlement houses

• Set up to help the poor in the cities• The first one was called Neighborhood Guild in

New York City

Hull House

• Settlement house in Chicago set up by Jane Addams

Jane Addams

Square Deal

• Believed that workers should receive just and fair treatment

16th Amendment

• Created the federal income tax

17th Amendment

• Allowed senators to be elected by the people

18th Amendment

• Banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

19th Amendment

• Gave women the right to vote