The Progressive Movement
Progressivism
• A.)grew from Populism
• B.)differences from Populism:
1. more urban-centered
2. more educated; middle class
3. less radical
4. succeeded more than Populism
Progressivism continued…
• wanted 2 major changes in government
1. government needed to respond
to people.
2. government had to protect all
citizens.
Muckrakers:
• A.)journalists who fueled Progressive
movement.
• B.)brought America’s problems to public
• C.)writings were meant to anger readers
-Ida Tarbel
-Upton Sinclair
-McClure’s Magazine
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair:
The Jungle Excerpt…
“There were the wool pluckers, whose
hands went to pieces even sooner than
the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts
of the sheep had to be painted with acid to
loosen the wool, and then the pluckers
had to pull out this wool with their bare
hands, till the acid had eaten all of their
fingers off…
“Some worked at the stamping-machines,
and it was very seldom that one could
work long there at the pace that was set,
and not give out and forget himself, and
have a part of his hand chopped off…”
“Worst of any however, were… those who
served in the cooking rooms…Their
peculiar trouble was that they fell into the
vats; and when they were fished out there
was never enough of them to be worth
exhibiting-sometimes they would be
overlooked for days, till all but the bones of
them had gone out to the world as…
Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard!”
Chicago’s meat packing industry…
Modern Day Muckrakers?
Progressive politicians
• Hiram Johnson
-gov. of California
-passed quality labor laws:
-8 hr work week for women
-workman’s comp
-child labor laws
-ran for vice prez
Hiram Johnson
Politicians continued…
• Bob Lafollette
-“Fighting Bob”
-governor of Wisconsin
-Wisconsin Idea
-1st state income tax
-railroad rate commission
-regulated state banks
“Fightin’ Bob”
Progressive Amendments:
• 16th: income tax = progressive tax (1913)
• 17th: direct election of senators (1913)
• 18th: Prohibition (1919)
-ban the selling of alcohol nationally
• 19th: Women’s Suffrage (1920)
-gave women equal rights