Progressive Era

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Progressive Era

• 1900-1916

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Progressives

• Reformers who attempted to rectify the problems
  caused by the Industrial Revolution Big
  Government
•   Muckrakers writers exposed problems of
  society

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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
• womens suffrage
• conservationism

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Leaders

• Urban Jane Addams
• State Robert LaFollette
• Congress George W. Norris
• Presidency T. Roosevelt
• Supreme Court Louis B. Brandeis
• Prohibition Carrie Nation
• Racial Equality W.E.B. DuBois
• Anti-Lynching League Ida B. Wells Barnett
• Womens Rights Alice Paul 

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Muckrakers writers exposed problems of society

• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
• Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
• Ida Tarbell, History of Standard Oil
• Frank Norris, The Octopus
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
• Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
• William R. Hearst, publisher

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Reforming State City Government

• direct primary system
• initiative referendum
• recall elections
• tax reform
• fight city bosses machines
• City Commissions
• Election of Officials

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Teddy Roosevelt

• trust-buster
• supporter of Labor
• Civil Rights
• Conservation Movement