The Progressives

Out to save the world!

The Progressive Era marks the end of the Gilded Age with its graft and corruption.

Usually considered to be from roughly 1890 to World War I

The Muckrakers were the investigative journalists of their day. Exposing evil became a flourishing business.

Muckraking was directed at social ills like-

child labor

political corruption

monopolies and trusts

Upton Sinclair was a socialist, who wanted to improve the plight of the working class in America.

Jane Adams Hull house

slums

“white slavery”

Ida b wells

subjugation of African Americans

working conditions and the plight of labor

Jacob Riis published a book of his photographs called How the Other Half Lives in which he depicted lives of poverty.

photos by Jacob Riis