1. Progressive Era

2. Essential Question:
How did Progressive reformers make America a better place to live?

3. Progressives:
Reformers who attempted to rectify the problems caused by the Industrial Revolution & Big Government
  Muckrakers: writers exposed problems of society

4. Reform Movements Populists Progressives Farmers Rural Problems
Middle Class
Urban Problems
Both
Increase Democracy
End Corruption
Help Working Class

5. Goals of Progressives make government more responsive & responsible
limit power of party bosses & political machines
increased participation by responsible citizens
end laissez-faire
trust-busting
women’s suffrage
conservationism

6. Women Leaders Women’s Rights: Alice Paul Urban: Jane Addams
Prohibition: Carrie Nation

7. Civil Rights Racial Equality: Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois
Anti-Lynching League: Ida B. Wells Barnett

8. Reforming State & City Government
direct primary system
initiative & referendum
recall elections
tax reform
City Commissions
Election of Officials
fight city bosses & machines

9. Muckrakers: writers exposed problems of society
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
Ida Tarbell, History of Standard Oil
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
William R. Hearst, publisher

10. Teddy Roosevelt trust-buster supporter of Labor Civil Rights
Anthracite Coal Strike
Civil Rights
Conservation Movement

11. William Howard Taft Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy on conservation
T.R. challenged Taft
Progressive (Bull Moose Party)
Election 1912

13. Woodrow Wilson Southern Scholar Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Keating-Owen Act
Women’s Suffrage controversy

14. Ragtime