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Wanted to adress problems in industrialization, urbanization, immigration and political corruption

Also restore economic opportunities

They also they wanted regulation of monopolies and corporations through antitrust laws. that would make more economic opportunities
Return control of the gov’t to the people

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Type of people that supported the movement 

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Type of people that supported the movement 

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Progressive reformers were typically middle-class society women or Christian ministers.

Social reformers were primarily middle-class citizens who targeted political machines and their bosses.
women that wanted more rights
black people that wanted equal rights and to stop discrimination

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He talks about how the progressive era is were they take the problems from the gilded age and fix them[(progress)ive]
He also talked about muckrakers and how they kind of grew the movement
Also how worker would form unions/groups to stand up for themselves
He said how they pushed for local acts and laws instead of federal because it is easier to pass them

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The Progressive Era: Crash Course US History #27

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The muckrakers were journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt.

The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption.

And social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States.
They helped with things like corruption and child labor

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voting restrictions-it made it so black people could not vote

Organizations such as the Niagara Movement, NACW, NAACP, NUL all resulted in building stronger African American communities by providing healthcare, housing, and educational services.
Poll Taxes, Grandfather clause, literacy tests
nothing was equal even thought they said Separate, but equal

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Supreme Court ruled
“Separate, but equal”

Did not violate the 14th Amendment. witch means it is not illegal

Equal services

it was not equal the white people had things better

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Mary McLeod Bethune - Established a school for African American girls
Booker T. Washington
“Prove economic value” through skill
Established the Tuskegee Institute
Trades and labor skills
W.E.B. Dubois
1st African American to receive doctorate from Harvard.
“Immediate inclusion” - education libaral arts and Established the Niagara Movement

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because of Discrimination they made there own community's
everything was segregated white and black
It was the white people that did not want the blacks around so the black were forced to make there own schools and many other things
African Americans were confined to the least paid, least desirable, most dangerous and unstable jobs
they also faced violence witch change how they lived because every they had to live with people hating.

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Long hours around 10-12 hours a day
Poor working conditions, for example in the meat packing plants there was rotten meat and heavy machines that are very dangerous    Job instability so many people wanted a job so if you got hurt or are not doing a good job you would be fired
Low wages, they got paid barely anything and then they would get pay cuts and many people would lose there jobs

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They would have information in magazines and newspapers telling everyone about all the bad things and the truth
Some of them would go under cover and get jobs at factories and wright about what they saw or take pictures
They would also encourage people to stand up for there rights and what is right.
Also books were written like the jungle to explain really want is happening in the factories

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Ida Tarbell - “History of Standard Oil Company” Elimination of competition

Jacob Riis - “How the Other Half Lives - 1890 NYC Slums

Lincoln Steffens’ - “The Shame of Cities” - 1902 Political Machines

Upton Sinclair - “The Jungle” - 1906
Meat Packing industry- meant to help the workers but did much more

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Most important things that the the muckrakers did 

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Most important things that the the muckrakers did 

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Upton Sinclair wrote the jungle witch was about meat packing plants
Lewis Hine he would take pictures of child labor and show people how bad the condition were that they worked in
Ida Tarbell - “History of Standard Oil Company" was about corruption in the standard oil company.
also going under cover was important to get the information for themselves.

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Florence Kelley helped to make it Illegal for children under 14 to work

Food & Drug Administration
Meat Inspection Act
women in factories got the work hours shorter

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One of the people that had the biggest role in stopping it was Lewis Hine
He would go under cover in factories to take pictures
This made people mad to see kids that young working
Also muckrakers helped by writing newspapers to help get the information out

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African Americans in the Progressive Era

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working condition got a little better
child labor laws were put in place
Less corruption in government, political machines, and big businesses
regulation of food products
Food & Drug Administration
Meat Inspection Act

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Important people that supported the movement  

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Important people that supported the movement  

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Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson were all presidents the supported the movement

Jane Addams was one of the most influential progressive reformers
Riis wrote and photographed the poverty of New York, helping to expose squalid social conditions
Du Bois was an influential African-American activist who sought to campaign for full equality between blacks and whites

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This shows a muckraker raking the muck and the muck is a meat scandal

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This shows how the big business pay the workers low wages and charge high rent to squeeze all the money out of them that they can and use them because they need money to survive.