1. Progressivism
CHAPTER 4, SECTION 1

2. Origins
Emerged from growing middle class, dissatisfied workers, wealthy Americans
Believed that industrialization and urbanization created social and political problems
Work more efficiently
Wanted laws to help poor, society more efficient

3. Populism v. Progressivism
Get rid of corrupt gov.
Eliminate abuses of big business
Farmers and workers
Progressivism
Get rid of corrupt gov.
Eliminate abuses of big businesses
Middle-class
Educated

4. Targeted Problems Getting women the vote Bring down political machines
City people needed paved streets, clean water and housing
“bust the trusts”
Reduce the gap between the wealthy and poor

5. Muckrakers Investigative reports showed America’s problems
Jacob Riis – photographed the poor
Novelists put a human face on problems
Naturalist novel
The Jungle

6. Upton Sinclair Born in Baltimore in 1878 Exposed to class disparity
Poor with rich relatives
Graduated from College of New York and Columbia
Sent to Chicago to write on working conditions in the stockyards
Led to major reforms in food purity regulations