Other reforms
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Political reform Direct election of Senators
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 17 amendment
 Income tax
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 16 amendment
Clean up food and drugs
 Ladies Home Journal
 Upton Sinclair
 The Jungle
Child labor
 Review
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COKE!
La b or
H i nes
Women in sweatshops
Who were the Progressives?
New middle class
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Young professionals
Sought to apply principles of professions (medicine, law,
business, teaching) to problems of society
Strong faith in progress and the ability of educated people to
overcome problems
Rise in volunteer organizations organized to address issues
Mainly urban in residence and orientation
Other Progressives
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Political reformers
 Local-Hogg-TX
 State-Wilson-NJ
Roosevelt-NY
 National-Wilson
Roosevelt
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Socialists
 Eugene Debs
 Looked on by most Progressives as too fanatical
Muckrakers
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Muckraking journalists attacked corruption and
scandal with a sense of moral outrage
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens
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Exposed corruption in city government in The Shame of the Cities
(1904)
Ida Tarbell