The Progressive Reform Era (1890-1920)

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Progressivism

movement based on the idea that the government can and should address economic and social problems

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Who were key figures in progressivism?

Teddy Roosevelt & Woodrow Wilson

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Progressive Goals

move away from laissez-faire with the government regulating industry, make the government responsive to the people (voting), improve workers’ rights/conditions for poor & immigrants, limit power of political bosses, clean up cities, end segregation

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Muckraker

writer/journalist who exposes the problems of society in order to bring about reform

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<p>Ida Tarbell</p>

Ida Tarbell

The History of Standard Oil

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<p>Lincoln Steffens</p>

Lincoln Steffens

The Shame of the Cities (political corruption)

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<p>Jacob Riis</p>

Jacob Riis

How the Other Half Lives (poor living conditions in tenements)

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<p>Frank Norris</p>

Frank Norris

The Octopus (unfair business practices of the Southern Pacific Railroad)

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Lewis Hine

schoolteacher turned muckraker who targeted the abuses of child labor in American Industry

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Upton Sinclair

The Jungle (unsanitary conditions in meat packing plants & working conditions for immigrants)

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What did The Jungle lead to?

The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)