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Progressive Era Module
Progressive Era Module
Politics
Muckrakers
The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in popular magazines
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
A book that exposed the meat packing industry and forced the government to action on the unsafe conditions food was prepared.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Government took action on how food was prepared and what products were put into medicines that people took.
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Initiative-Citizens propose legislation and submit for popular vote.
Referendum-Citizens submit proposal to remove legislation and decide by popular vote.
Recall-Voters can remove an elected official from office before term is up by popular vote.
Third Parties
These parties hinder the two party system by taking the votes away from them. 3rd parties focus on issues that major parties ignore. They can ruin a sure election and because of this normally the main parties will take up the causes they have, as a way to not lose votes to them.
Populist Party
The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was a left wing agrarian populist late-19th-century political party in the United States. The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but collapsed after it nominated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 US Presidential Election.
Populist platform: collective bargaining, federal regulation of railroad rates, an expansionary monetary policy, and a Sub-Treasury Plan that required the establishment of federally controlled warehouses to aid farmers. Other Populist-endorsed measures included bimetallism a graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, a shorter workweek, and the establishment of a postal savings system.
Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt is nominated for the presidency by the Progressive Party, a group of Republicans dissatisfied with the re-nomination of President William Howard Taft. Also known as the Bull Moose Party, the Progressive platform called for the direct election of U.S. senators, woman suffrage, reduction of the tariff and many social reforms.
Civil Rights of the 1920s
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
W.E.B. DuBois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite.
Women
Susan B. Anthony
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women's suffrage movement.
Jane Adams
Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace.
Women Suffrage
Women moving to have the right to vote.
This will be accomplished through the 19th amendment passed in 1920.
Prohibition
The act of banning something and making it illegal, in this instance the illegal substance is alcohol.
This concept was spurred along by women.
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