●Progressives believed that they could make a difference.
And they believed that the way to solve the problem was
government involvement.
○Gov. needed to be more efficient.
○People should have more active role in gov.
○Women should have right to Suffrage.
○New Tech. and medicines.
●Muckrakers were journalists that exposed problems in
society.
○Jacob Riis-Wrote ​
How the Other Half Lives​
. Showed
how poor people lived vividly.
○Upton Sinclair- Wrote ​
The Jungle​
to describe the
conditions in the meatpacking industry. He wanted to
highlight the plight of the working class. Instead
raised fears of what was in the meat people were
eating.
■Women protested the conditions of the mat
factories.
■Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act.
○Ida Tarbell- Wrote ​
The History of the Standard Oil
Company​
. Exposed how Standard Oil took advantage
of its workers.
●Robert Lafollette-Governor of Wisconsin.
○Progressive
○Wanted to give the power to the people.
●Direct Primary
●Initiative-The people’s way of getting something on the
ballot by petition.
●Referendum-People directly vote on something that will
become a law. Allows us to bypass our government.
●The 17th Amendment-Direct election of senators.
●Women’s Suffrage
○Susan B. Anthony
■Original leader of the movement.
■Quaker.
○Alice Paul
■Leader of movement after Susan B. Anthony.
■Went to the president and told him to make
women’s Suffrage a federal law.
○19th Amendment-Gave women the right to vote.