Progressive Era

Reform Movements Populists  Farmers  Rural Problems Progressives  Middle Class  Urban Problems Progressives  Increase Democracy  End Corruption  Help Working Class

Progressives:  Reformers who attempted to rectify the problems caused by the Industrial Revolution & Big Government  Muckrakers: writers exposed problems of society

Goals of Progressives  make government more responsive & responsible  limit power of party bosses & political machines  increased participation by responsible citizens  end laissez-faire  trust-busting  women’s suffrage  conservationism

Women Leaders  Women’s Rights: Alice Paul  Urban: Jane Addams  Prohibition: Carrie Nation

Civil Rights  Racial Equality: Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois  Anti-Lynching League:Ida B. Wells Barnett

Reforming State & City Government  direct primary system  initiative & referendum  recall elections  tax reform  City Commissions  Election of Officials  fight city bosses & machines

Muckrakers: writers exposed problems of society  Upton Sinclair, The Jungle  Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities  Ida Tarbell, History of Standard Oil  Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives  William R. Hearst, publisher

Teddy Roosevelt  trust-buster  supporter of Labor  Anthracite Coal Strike  Civil Rights  Conservation Movement

William Howard Taft  Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy on conservation  T.R. challenged Taft  Progressive (Bull Moose Party)  Election 1912

Woodrow Wilson  Southern Scholar  Federal Reserve Act  Clayton Anti-Trust Act  Keating-Owen Act  Women’s Suffrage controversy