1. Progressivism was rooted in Populism. Many of the
ideas from populists are later incorporated.
-progressive income tax (16th Amendment)
-direct election of senators (17th Amendment)
-state laws on referendum, recall, and initiative

2. Progressive Reformers
Because of the work of progressive reformers, we
now take for granted many rights, laws, and protections
that we have today.
-women’s suffrage
-minimum wage
-8 hour workday
-the right for workers to organize
-food and drug safety
- fair competition in business

3. Jane Addams -Social worker who worked to help poor,
elderly, and new immigrants
-Opened Hull House in 1889 as a settlement house
for new immigrants
-Legal Reforms such as Juvenile Court,
compulsory education
-Labor reforms such as
child labor, safety
-Won Nobel Prize

4. Upton Sinclair -wrote The Jungle- a novel based
on the unsanitary conditions of
meat packing industry
-book caused Congress to pass
two laws:
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
“I aimed at the public’s heart, but hit its stomach instead.”

5. Thomas Nast -Political cartoonist who used his
are to bring attention to corruption
in government.
-Brought down Boss Tweed
-Created Santa Claus and the
Republican Elephant
-Made the donkey the recognized
symbol for the Democratic party
D-smart and brave E-strong and dignified

7. Ida Tarbell -Teacher and muckraker journalist
-her father’s oil co. was ruined by
Rockefeller and Standard Oil
-Wrote The History of Standard Oil Company
-portrayed Rockefeller as crabbed, miserly,
moneygrabbing and effective at making
monopolies
-paved the way for stronger anti-trust laws and
the break up of Standard Oil into smaller companies.

8. Booker T. Washington -Born a slave in Virginia
-A founder of Tuskegee Institute (1881)
-Wrote Up from Slavery, autobiography
-Explained his view of the role of Black Americans in segregated America in an 1895 speech called the “Atlanta Compromise”
-urged black Americans to learn a trade
-emphasized economic success over racial equality.

9. W. E. B. DuBois -Challenged the philosophy of B. T. Washington
-born free in Massachusetts
-1st Black American to earn a PhD at Harvard U.
-A founder of the NAACP (1909)
-Editor of NAACP’s newspaper – The Crisis
-Wrote The Souls of Black Folk, autobiography
-Encouraged Black Americans to demand the rights guaranteed in the 14th and 15th amendments
-Believed that talented Black Americans should seek a liberal arts or full university education.

10. Walter Rauschenbusch -Baptist Minister
-Christianity should be basis for
social reform
-Social Gospel- -Christians should give
to the poor.
-”The church must transform society as
well as save souls.”
-Protestant leaders follow his lead- -
-push to end child labor
-make shorter work weeks
-get rid of trusts

11. Florence Kelley -lawyer -pushed to end child labor
-lobbied to create the U.S. Children’s Bureau
-started the National Consumer League
-convinced Illinois to end child labor- many
other states followed.