Progressive Movement

Causes that women championed: Suffrage and Temperament (Prohibition)

Female leaders of the movement: Jane Addams (opened the Hull House to support immigrant and working-class familites), and Susan B Anthony (major leader of the women’s suffrage movement who helped organize nationally for voting rights)

Were progressives succesful in offering oppurtunites to all Americans? No, the movement largely ignored African Americans.

Progressive movement achieved: Worker protections, Child-labor laws, Government regulation of businesses, Women's rights, Direct election of senators

For the urban population, the quality of life was largely poor. Many people lived in small slums which lacked plumbing and common commodities.

Progressives generally believed that people’s morals and behavior could be improved through education, government action, and social reform

16th amendment: Allowed the federal government to collect an income tax

17th: established the direct election of U.S. senators by voters

18th: Established Prohibition, banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol

19th: Prohibited denying the right to vote based on sex

Muckraker: writers and novelists who exposed corrupt political, corporate, and economic practices as well as racial injustices

Progressives worked to improve the quality of livng in cities by pushing for more rigid sanitation such as sewage systems, garbage collection