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THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Major Issues & Reforms
RACE (B & W)
Why Reform?
• Racism
• Great Migration
Major Players
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B Dubois
Solutions
• Atlanta Compromise (self-help)
• Niagara Movement (assertion) & NAACP
Largely ignored
by Progressive
Presidents!
WOMEN
Why Reform?
• Voting Rights (suffrage)
Major Players
• 1st: Anthony & Stanton
• 2nd: Paul, Stone, Catt
Solutions
• 19th
amendment
POLITICS
Why Reform?
• Trusts/monopolies
• Political machines
• State reforms
Major Players
• Ida Tarbell
• Lincoln Steffens
• Robert La Follette
Solutions
• Standard Oil
• “The Shame of the Cities”
• 17th Am. (direct election of senators)
LABOR
Why Reform?
• Child Labor
• Labor unrest/socialism
• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Major Players
• Taft
• Eugene Debs
Solutions
• Children’s Bureau
• Socialism rejected (too radical)
• Fire escapes/safety
DISPARITY OF WEALTH
Why Reform?
• Urban poor/immigrants
• Tenement Living
• Health concerns
Major Players
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
Solutions
• 16th am. (income tax)
• AMA
• Pure Food & Drug Act
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION
Why Reform?
• Nativism
• Eugenics
• Social Gospel
Major Players
• Jane Addams
Solutions
• Hull House
• Settlement houses
ALCOHOL USE
Why Reform?
• Alcoholism
Major Players
• WCTU/Anti-Saloon Leagues
• Frances Willard
• Carrie Nation
Solutions
• 18th
amendment (prohibition)
MUCK
What does it mean?
THE MUCKRAKERS
❖Journalists who “raked up” the “muck”
❖Exposed corruption/greed/poverty/racism, etc.
❖The new yellow journalism Sensationalized problems
Sense of moral outrage (social gospel)
The term “muck-rake” was 1st used by
Teddy Roosevelt in reference to
William Randolph Hearst. Roosevelt
approved of some degree of
“muckraking” but was suspicious of
people like Upton Sinclair, whom he
suspected to be a socialist.
PROGRESSIVE ERA RESUME
• Standard Oil TrustIda Tarbell:
• political machinesLincoln Steffens:
• photos--How the Other Half LivesJacob Riis:
• suffragePaul, Anthony, Stanton, Stone, Catt:
• government reform (Wis.)Robert La Follette:
• capitalism & co-founder of NAACPCharles Edward Russell:
• socialism John Spargo & Eugene Debs:
• The Jungle**Upton Sinclair:
• Hull House**Jane Addams:
• Atlanta Compromise**Booker T. Washington:
• NAACP **W.E.B. DuBois: