Progressive Movement (jan 1, 1900 – jan 1, 1920)

Description:

CAUSES
- industrialization
- urbanization
- immigration

WHAT
- increased government regulation to improve
society
- rejection of laissez-faire

WHO
- majority -> middle class
- diverse group
- Protestant church leaders (temperance)
- politicians (monopolies/trust regulations)
- union leaders (workers' rights)
- women (suffrage)
- African Americans (greater equality)

MUCKRAKERS
- rude name called by Teddy Roosevelt
- ex: "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

WOMEN
- National Child Labor Committee (stopping
child labor)
- National Consumer's League (rights of women
in the workplace, stopping child labor)
- Muller vs. Oregon (1908)
- ruled that laws limiting women workers
were constitutional
- Triangle Shirtwait Fire (1911)
- killed 146 workers
- temperance
- NAWSA -> Cott, state by state support
- NWP -> Paul, federal approach

FAILURE
- African American rights

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