Currents of Progressive Reform
Local Communities
State
National
Key Figures
Jane Addams
Lillian Wald
Issues
Improving health, education, welfare in urban
neighborhoods
Florence Kelley
Child labor, 8 hour day
Frederic C. Howe
Celebrating immigrant cultures
Samuel Jones
Reforming urban politics, municipal
ownership/regulation of utilities
Limiting the power of railroads, other
corporations
Robert M. LaFollette
Hiram Johnson
Improving civil service
Al Smith
Direct democracy
Applying academic scholarship to human
needs
Disfranchisement of African Americans
Trustbusting
Conservation and Western development
National regulation of corporate and financial
excesses
Reform of national banking
Muckraking
James K. Vardaman
Theodore Roosevelt
Intellectual/Cultural
Woodrow Wilson
Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens,
Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair,
S. S. McClure
John Dewey
Louis Brandeis
Education reform
Sociological jurisprudence
Progressive Reforms
Reform Area
Goals
Extension of Democracy
Women’s suffrage→
Representative
government
Honesty and
Efficiency in Government
Regulation of the economy—
Business
Regulation of the Economy—
Transportation/Communication
Social Issues
Conservation
Appoint people to
government based
on merit
End child labor
End abuses of
monopolies
Regulation of
business
Reduce
discriminatory
practices of natural
monopolies
Municipal Reform
Equitable distribution
of wealth
Race relations
Effective national
monetary system
Probibition→
Preservation of
natural resources
Accomplishments
1920—19th Amendment
1913—Direct election of
Senators--17th Amendment
Referendum, Recall, and
initiative
Direct primary system
Pendelton Act (1883)
Civil Service Commission (1883)
City Manager System
Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Keating-Owen Act (1916)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Hepburn Act (1906)
Northern Securities Co. v.
United States (1904)
Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
Hull House (1889)
Graduated Income tax-16th Amendment
NAACP (1909)
Women’s Christian→
Temperance Union
18th Amendment
Key People
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
Robert M. LaFollette
Forest Reserve Act (1891)
Newlands Reclamation Act
(1891)
National Antiquities Act
Theodore Roosevelt
John Muir
Giffort Pinchot
Chester Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Frank Norris
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
William Taft
Jane Addams
Lincoln Steffens
Henry George
Louis Brandeis
Jacob Riis
Francis Willard
Louis Brandeis