The Progressive Movement

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The Progressive Movement
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Pg. 6 - Roots of the Progressive
Movement

• Progressive Movement
• a collection of many movements
• 1890-1920
• Americans tried to improve many of Americas
  social problems.
• urban and middle class citizens
• felt that the government should do more to help
  fix peoples problems.

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Muckrakers

• Muckraker a journalist that investigated social
  conditions and exposed government corruption
• Muckraker newspaper articles often brought
  attention to social problems and put pressure on
  government officials to make reforms

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Magazines

• magazines became popular at this time and some,
  like McClures, often included the articles by
  muckrakers
• some popular articles became a series of articles
  and eventually were turned into books

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Authors

• Ida Tarbells History of the Standard Oil Company
  exposed how John D. Rockefeller amassed his
  wealth
• Upton Sinclairs The Jungle exposed the
  unsanitary conditions in the nations meat
  packing industry
• Jacob Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives,
  revealing the terrible living conditions of the
  urban poor
• Lincoln Steffens wrote The Shame of the Cities,
  telling about political corruption in cities

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Populist Connection

• many of the ideas of the Progressive Movement
  were born in the old Populist Movement
• both were grass roots (from the people)
  organizations
• each movement optimistically believed that they
  could cause great changes to society through
  their actions