1. Progressive Era 1900-1916

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

3. 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

4. Leaders  Urban: Jane Addams  State: Robert LaFollette  Congress: George W. Norris  Presidency: T. Roosevelt  Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes  Prohibition: Carrie Nation  Racial Equality: W.E.B. DuBois  Anti-Lynching League:Ida B. Wells Barnett  Women’s Rights: Alice Paul  Women’s Rights: Alice Paul

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

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

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

8. William Howard Taft  Payne-Aldrich Tariff  Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy  T.R. challenged Taft  Progressive (Bull Moose Party)  Election 1912

9. Woodrow Wilson  Southern Scholar  Underwood-Simmons Tariff  Federal Reserve Act  Clayton Anti-Trust Act  Keating-Owen Act  Women’s Suffrage