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1889
Hull House
1889
Jane Addams
Panic of 1893
Relief programs + public works projects
1890
Principles of Psychology
1916
Democracy and Education
1890
How the Other Half Lives
1902
The Shame of the Cities
1902-1904
The History of the Standard Oil Company
1924
Progressive Party candidate
1912
"Bull Moose" Progressive Party
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1906
Upton Sinclair
1913
Placed dam in valley
1892
Sierra Club
Progressivism
The political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society
Social Gospel
A social movement within Protestantism that aims to apply Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, and crime
Jane Addams
An important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace
Hull House
A settlement house in Chicago, Illinois that opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants
Hazen Pingree
A four-term Republican mayor of Detroit and the 24th Governor of the U.S. State of Michigan
Tom Johnson
An American industrialist, Georgist politician, and important figure of the Progressive Era and a pioneer in urban political and social reform
William James
An American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States
John Dewey
An American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform
Lewis Hine
His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States
Jacob Riis
A Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer
Lincoln Steffens
An American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century
Ida Tarbell
Best known for her 1904 book "The History of the Standard Oil Company" which contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Clayton Antitrust Act
Robert La Follette
Championed such progressive reform measures as regulation of railroads, direct election of senators, and worker protection, while opposing American entry into World War I and condemning wartime restrictions on free speech
Wisconsin Idea
A philosophy embraced by the University of Wisconsin System (UW System) that holds that university research should be applied to solve problems and improve health, quality of life, the environment, and agriculture for all citizens of the state
Theodore Roosevelt
An American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909
Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
The Jungle
A 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair that portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Meat Inspection Act
Enacted to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions
John Muir
An influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America