1. The Progressive Movement
Thinking Skill: Demonstrate an understanding of concepts
Objective: Determine who the Progressives were and what goals they hoped to achieve

2. What were the Progressives’ Goals?
1. Make government more democratic
2. End unhealthy and dangerous conditions in cities and factories.
3. Curb corporate power

3. What were the Progressives’ Solutions?
No unified approach to solving society’s problems.
Stricter regulation of business
Humanitarian approach:
Protect workers and the urban poor
Reform structure of government
federal, state and city level
Reform society’s morals/ethics/behavior
Create order
Restrict immigration
End vices of the city
End alcohol

4. Who were the Progressives?
Variety of Reformers
Intellectuals challenged the ideology of business
Writers and Journalists wrote about the conditions and effects of industrialization and urbanization on people
Inspired Middle Class reformers to seek change
Formed Interest Groups to solve certain problems
Approached reform utilizing Scientific Methods

5. How were the Progressives and Populists Different?
Rural and agricultural movement
Farmers
Lower class
Considered radical or revolutionary
Short-lived and not very successful
Only change at local level
Progressives
Urban movement
Led by Intellectuals, Journalists
Middle Class
Much more popular movement
Sought to reform the system, not do away with it
Much more successful
Lasted 40 years
Change at local, state, even national level

6. The Muckrakers
Muckrakers were writers, journalists, and photographers who published stories about
municipal corruption
corporate wrongdoing
reality of slum and factory life
Term Muckrakers came from T.Roosevelt: Muckrakers wrote one sided, disparaging stories. “raking up the filth”

7. Major Muckrakers Ida Tarbell’s: “History of Standard Oil Comp.”
Lincoln Steffen’s: “The Shame of the Cities”
Upton Sinclair’s: “The Jungle” (Meat Packing Industry)
Jacob Riis: “How the Other Half Lives”
Photographed aspects of urban life and factories
Major Publications:
McClure’s (750,000 subscriptions)
Cosmopolitan (1 million subscribers)

8. Jacob Riis ‘Bandit’s Roost’ Are Images more powerful than words?
Concerned
Muckraker
‘Bandit’s Roost’
‘5 Cent Rooms’