Populism = Rural issues
Progressivism = Urban issues
-Middle & upper class people
-Women jump on board! Why?
-Reform the workplace!
-Limit monopolies & trusts! (reduce corporate power)
-Social issues: elections, education, equality
-Progressive journalists join in the fight!
Muckrakers !!!
-Munsey’s, Everybody’s, McClure’s Magazine
-Told of corruption in politics and business
-Increased awareness of social issues
-“History of the Standard Oil Company”
-Local Hero!! Allegheny College, Titusville
-The “Terror of the Trusts”
- The Jungle
-Female & child laborers
-Equal pay, safer conditions, shorter days, no children, minimum wage
-Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
-Corporations fight back!
-14th Amendment protects property, right?
-Freedom of contract
-Muller v. Oregon
-Louis Brandeis (Brandeis Brief)
-Closed Shop
-Socialism
(American Federation of Labor)
(International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union)
(Industrial Workers of the World)
-William “Big Bill” Haywood
-Wobblies
-Over 50% of pop. Living in cities
-Housing, sanitation, police & fire protection, education, recreation
-Lawrence Veiller
-NY Tenement House Act
-Daniel Burnham
-City planning (Chicago)
-Prohibition – banned the manufacture, sale & transportation of
alcoholic beverages
-Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
-18th Amendment
-Many progressives do not want to include minorities
-Some minorities do succeed, but major change is decades away
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
* Americanization