Progressive Era
1900-1916
Reform Movements
Populists
 Farmers
 Rural Problems
Progressives
 Middle Class
 Urban Problems
Progressives
 Increase Democracy
 End Corruption
 Help Working Class
Progressives:
 Reformers who attempted to rectify the
problems caused by the Industrial
Revolution & Big Government
 Muckrakers: writers exposed
problems of society
Goals of Progressives
 make government more responsive &
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limit power of party bosses & political
machines
increased participation by responsible
citizens
end laissez-faire
trust-busting
women’s suffrage
conservationism
Women Leaders
 Women’s Rights: Alice Paul
 Urban: Jane Addams
 Prohibition: Carrie Nation
Civil Rights
 Racial Equality: Booker T. Washington &
W.E.B. DuBois
 Anti-Lynching League:
Ida B. Wells Barnett
Reforming State & City Government
 direct primary system
 initiative & referendum
 recall elections
 tax reform
 City Commissions
 Election of Officials
 fight city bosses & machines
Muckrakers: writers exposed
problems of society
 Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
 Lincoln Steffens, The Shame
of the Cities
 Ida Tarbell, History of
Standard Oil
 Jacob Riis, How the Other Half
Lives
 William R. Hearst, publisher
Teddy Roosevelt
 trust-buster
 supporter of
Labor
 Anthracite
Coal Strike
 Civil Rights
 Conservation
Movement
William Howard Taft
 Ballinger-Pinchot
Controversy on
conservation
 T.R. challenged Taft
 Progressive (Bull
Moose Party)
 Election 1912
Woodrow Wilson
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Southern Scholar
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Keating-Owen Act
Women’s Suffrage
controversy