1. The Progressive Movement
US History
Mrs. Lacks

2. What was Progressivism?
The attempts to fix problems with urbanization and inequality
Not a singular movement, but a collection of movements

3. PROGRESSIVISM Civi l Rights Muckrackers Suffragettes Popul ists
Temperance
Goo
Goos
M i d c l a s s W o m e n
Labor
Unions 3

4. Muckrakers Journalists who exposed issues Famous muckrakers?
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Lincoln Steffens, “The Shame of Cities” (in McClure’s Magazine)
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Ida Tarbell, The History of Standard Oil Company

5. Muckrakers Spurred govt to work to end child labor Limit work hours
Provide workers' compensation
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
declared certain business practices illegal (monopolies)

6. Populists (1890s) pushed legislation to help farmers
Farmers suffered from falling crop prices and high transportation costs
Formed political party, the Populist Party to push change
Biggest issue: bimetallism
Won several seats in Congress (esp from Great Plains states)
First presidential candidate: James B. Weaver, Ohio

7. Populists William Jennings Bryan Three time Presidential nominee
Closest race – Election of 1900 vs. McKinley
Cross of Gold speech

8. Suffragettes Promoted women’s rights, specifically the right to vote
Susan B. Anthony: leader of the movement
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Lobbied at state and national level

12. 19th Amendment
1920: Women’s Suffrage
Iron Jawed Angels (2004)