Transcript Progressives

Progressives
Goal 7.1
Reforms Continues
Progressivism – want
things to change and are
willing to embrace new
ideas to get change.
Progressivism picks up
where other movements
left off.
Extends help to Grange
and Populists.
Embrace suffragists and
temperance ideas.
Inequality
Wealth gap – Rich get
richer, poor get poorer.
Lack of social services
for the poor.
Need improvements
with social welfare,
moral improvement,
economic reform, and
efficiency.
Socialists Fears
Socialists are people who want
government ownership of companies.
Edward Bellamy – wrote Looking
Backward, 2000-1887. Book talks
about perfect socialist society in year
2000 with no poverty, crime or
politics.
Henry George wrote Progress and
Poverty also a socialist book.
Eugene Debs forms the SOCIALIST
PARTY- and he will run in many Pres.
Elections.
Muckrakers
Muckraker - journalist who
exposed graft and corruption in
society.
Ida Tarbell – Investigated
Standard Oil.
Lincoln Steffins – Wrote The
Shame of the Cities. Reported
on vote stealing and other
corrupt practices of urban
political machines.
Muckrakers
Jacob Riis – Wrote How the
Other Half Lives. Described
poverty, disease, and crime in
immigrant neighborhoods.
Upton Sinclair – writes the book
The Jungle. Describes the abuses
and unsafe as well as unsanitary
conditions in the meat packing
industry. This book lead to the
passing of the Pure Food and
Drug Act.