The Progressive Movement

Progressivism

• A.)grew from Populism

• B.)differences from Populism:1. more urban-centered

2. more educated; middle class

3. less radical

4. succeeded more than Populism

Progressivism continued…

• wanted 2 major changes in government

1. government needed to respond to people.

2. government had to protect all citizens.

Muckrakers:

• A.)journalists who fueled Progressive movement.

• B.)brought America’s problems to public• C.)writings were meant to anger readers

-Ida Tarbel-Upton Sinclair-McClure’s Magazine

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair:

The Jungle Excerpt…

“There were the wool pluckers, whose hands went to pieces even sooner than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had to be painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had to pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten all of their fingers off…

“Some worked at the stamping-machines, and it was very seldom that one could work long there at the pace that was set, and not give out and forget himself, and have a part of his hand chopped off…”

“Worst of any however, were… those who served in the cooking rooms…Their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out there was never enough of them to be worth exhibiting-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as…

Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard!”

Chicago’s meat packing industry…

Modern Day Muckrakers?

Progressive politicians

• Hiram Johnson

-gov. of California

-passed quality labor laws:

-8 hr work week for women

-workman’s comp

-child labor laws

-ran for vice prez

Hiram Johnson

Politicians continued…

• Bob Lafollette

-“Fighting Bob”

-governor of Wisconsin

-Wisconsin Idea

-1st state income tax

-railroad rate commission

-regulated state banks

“Fightin’ Bob”

Progressive Amendments:

• 16th: income tax = progressive tax (1913)

• 17th: direct election of senators (1913)

• 18th: Prohibition (1919)

-ban the selling of alcohol nationally

• 19th: Women’s Suffrage (1920)

-gave women equal rights