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2. Reforms Continue
-continuation of prior reforms
-Grange
-Populists
-Suffragists : Women’s Right to Vote
-Temperance: Banning Alcohol

3. I. Goals of Progressives
*Remember:-Wealth Gap existed
-lack of social services
-Needed Improvements
1. social welfare
(improving conditions from the Industrial Rev., esp. Women & Children)
2. moral improvement (improving personal behavior, Prohibition)
3. economic reform
(Began questioning the capitalist System, & some began embracing Socialism)
4. Efficiency
(Faith in experts & scientific principles to make society & workplace more efficient)- work hours

4. -extreme form of Socialism is communism -Karl Marx
II. Socialist Ideas
1. Socialism: -Economic Political System: Gov’t control businesses & Property
-extreme form of Socialism is communism
-Karl Marx
- *Eventually overthrow Capitalism
-fear of revolution
-Eugene V. Debs formed
American Socialist Party 1901

5. Socialist Fears
-Eugene V. Debs formed
American Socialist Party 1901
-I.W.W. Industrial Workers of the World AKA Wobblies
Radical Unionist, Chicago

6. II. Socialist Ideas
2. -Henry George
-”Progress and Poverty”
-Single Tax Concept, land tax, BC land belongs equally to all humans
- exposed the corruption of industries
3. -Edward Bellamy
-”Looking Backward” Utopian Novel set in 2000
-tale of ideal socialist society

7. III. Progressives Emerge
-Mostly middle class reformers
-wanted “progress” in society
-Social Gospel
*-thought that people need to help those less fortunate
*-religious groups
*-Salvation Army
* -opposite of Social Darwinism

8. IV. Muckrakers
-journalist who exposed graft and corruption in society – coined by T.Roosevelt, who supported the Progressives
1. -Ida Tarbell
2. -Upton Sinclair
3. -Lincoln Steffins

10. Muckrakers
1. -Ida Tarbell “History of the Standard Oil Company”
Describes the Cutthroat methods of Standard Oil- eliminating competition

11. Muckrakers
-Ida Tarbell-
*she sold her oil for 45,000, which it was worth 75,000.
* Rockefeller pressured her into selling saying that she would never sell anything because of his rates.

12. Muckrakers
2. -Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”
revealed the unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry
Resulted in serious investigation-
Meat Inspection Act 1906

14. 3. -Lincoln Steffins: leader of the Muckrakers
‘Shame of the Cities”
- political Machines, corruption= illegal votes