Ch.21: The Age of Reform

The progressive movement

Progressives: wanted to regulate big businesses against corruption

improved labor laws

Push for socially minded people

Journalists like Ida Tarbell become labeled “muckrakers” for bringing awareness to abuses

Progressive Laws

18th amendment: prohibition

19th amendment: women’s right to vote 1920

Susan B Anthony

Prominent women’s rights leader

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

(1901 26th president)

Progressive president

Regulates big business

Square Deal policies

No special privileges for rich or poor

Progressive movement failed to address needs for minorities

Minorities respond to being ignored

W.E.B Dubois

aggressively seeks to end segregation

Use research/ rational arguments to show inequality

Established organizations to seek/reform rights