1. The Progressive Movement

2. In a Nutshell… Non-Progressives: Government is a Progressives: Government is a SHIELD to protect your rights SWORD to fight injustice Today, the Republican Party is non-progressive. Today, the Democratic Party is progressive.

3. Before the Progressive Movement: Government exists to protect rights Should not regulate behavior Not government’s job to help people in need “We hold these truths to be self-evident: …that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…” - Declaration of Independence

4. What does it mean to be “Progressive”? Government should work to make life better for the people Regulate behavior for the greater good Use power to help people in need, including taxing power Reliance on bureaucracy & experts Get people more directly involved in governing

5. Muckrakers Journalists who exposed corruption and scandal (today we would call them “investigative journalists”) – Lincoln Steffens: corruption of the Tammany Hall political machine – Ida Tarbell: Standard Oil’s manipulation of trusts – Upton Sinclair’s writing on the meatpacking industry led to the creation of the FDA

6. Progressive Quotes from President Obama “We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” “We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together…”