Chapter 23 - The Progressive Reform Movement

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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