history progressive era

Progressive Movement Social Goals

Improve working conditions, child labor, public health, education, inequality

Progressive Movement Political Goals

Fight corruption, make government more democratic, regulate political machines

Progressive Movement Economic Goals

Regulate big business, reduce monopolies, ensure fair wages, protect workers

Muckrakers

Journalists exposing social, political, and economic corruption

Jacob Riis

Photographer exposing urban slums, author of How the Other Half Lives

Upton Sinclair

Author of The Jungle, exposed meatpacking industry, led to food safety reforms

Jane Addams

Founder of Hull House, provided social services to immigrants and poor

Ida Tarbell

Investigative journalist who exposed Standard Oil and unfair business practices

16th Amendment

Federal income tax

17th Amendment

Direct election of U.S. Senators

18th Amendment

Prohibition of alcohol

19th Amendment

Women’s right to vote

The Jungle

Novel by Upton Sinclair exposing unsanitary meatpacking conditions

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation

Supported preserving resources, wildlife, and creating national parks

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, fights racial discrimination and promotes civil rights