1. The Progressive Movement
Chapter 9, Section 1

2. Progressive Ideals
“We are bound to move forward or [slip backward] together. None of us can stand aside; our feet are mired [stuck] in the same soil, and our lungs breathe the same air.”
-Jane Addams

3. Progressivism
“Spirit of Reform”

4. Progressivism
“Spirit of Reform”
Focused on urban problems

5. Progressivism “Spirit of Reform” Focused on urban problems
Working conditions, poor sanitation, corrupt political machines

6. Who Were Progressives?
Native-born

7. Who Were Progressives?
Native-born
Middle or upper class

8. Who Were Progressives? Native-born Middle or upper class
College educated

9. Who Were Progressives? Native-born Middle or upper class
College educated
“My life began at John Hopkins University. I came alive. I felt a sense of responsibility. I wanted to change things.”
-Frederic Howe

10. The Role of Women
Many Progressives were women

11. The Role of Women Many Progressives were women
“Women have ceased to exist as a subsidiary [lower] class in the community. The modern educated woman came into a world which is losing faith in the commercial ideal and is endeavoring to substitute in its place a social ideal.”
-Rheta Childe Dorr, What Eight Million Women Want

12. The Role of Women
Women participated in Progressive party convention in 1912

13. The Role of Women
Women participated in Progressive party convention in 1912
“It would have been much more unnatural if [women] had not been there, when such matters of social welfare were being considered.”
-Jane Addams

14. Progressive Issues
Big Business:
-limiting monopolies

15. Progressive Issues
Big Business:
-limiting monopolies
-8 hour work day

16. Progressive Issues Big Business: -limiting monopolies -8 hour work day
-minimum wage

17. Progressive Issues Big Business: -limiting monopolies -8 hour work day
-minimum wage
-safer conditions

18. Progressive Issues Big Business: -limiting monopolies -8 hour work day
-minimum wage
-safer conditions
-child labor restrictions

19. Progressive Issues
Political Rights:
-election reforms

20. Progressive Issues Political Rights: -election reforms
-make government more responsive to the people

21. Progressive Issues
Social Justice:
-less poverty

22. Progressive Issues Social Justice: -less poverty
-apply science and technology to solve social problems

23. Role of journalists
McClure’s

24. Role of journalists McClure’s
informed people how these issues affected their lives

25. Role of journalists McClure’s
informed people how these issues affected their lives
Called “Muckrakers”

26. Role of journalists McClure’s
informed people how these issues affected their lives
Called “Muckrakers”
exposed the muck (filth) of society

27. Role of Journalists
Lincoln Steffens – exposed corrupt political machine in St. Louis

28. Role of Journalists
Lincoln Steffens – exposed corrupt political machine in St. Louis
Ida Tarbell – exposed corruption of Standard Oil

29. Role of Journalists
Lincoln Steffens – exposed corrupt political machine in St. Louis
Ida Tarbell – exposed corruption of Standard Oil
Ray Stannard Baker – examined the plight of African-Americans

30. Role of Novelists
Theodore Dreiser – depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners

31. Role of Novelists
Theodore Dreiser – depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners
Edith Wharton – close-mindedness of society leads to social isolation and despair

32. Role of Novelists
Theodore Dreiser – depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners
Edith Wharton – close-mindedness of society leads to social isolation and despair
Herbert Croly –government should promote welfare of all citizens

33. Questions to Consider Who are some modern day muckrakers?
What are some modern social issues that need to be exposed by muckrakers?