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The Progressives: Guided Notes
The Progressives
Problems
Muckrakers
Reforms
• Industrial hazards
• Exposed conditions
• Factory laws
• Corrupt governments
• Exposed Political Corruption
• Labor laws
• No right to vote for women
• Exposed abuses by big business
• Settlement houses
• Poor living conditions
• Called for better schools
• Improved education
• Poor working conditions
• Jacob Riis
• Child labor laws
• Monopolies
• Jane Addams
• New forms of local government
• Gap between rich and poor
• Upton Sinclair
• Utilities become public
• Direct primary
• Initiative
• Referendum
• Recall
What areas did Progressives think were in need of the greatest reform? How did they attempt to achieve these reforms?
Progressives wanted to make changes in politics and government, labor and workplace conditions, urban poverty, as well as child
labor and education. Attempts were made to make these reforms by making the issues more public. Novelists, jounalists,
photographers, as well as individuals like Jane Addams, all attempted to uncover these injustices and make reforms.