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The Progressive Era. Chapter 6. Goals: Improve urban living condition Improve work condition Reform the government . Muckrakers. Jacob Riis photographs the squalor of urban life. Ida Tarbell Exposes Standard Oil’s illegal practices .
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The Progressive Era Chapter 6 Goals: Improve urban living condition Improve work condition Reform the government
Muckrakers Jacob Riis photographs the squalor of urban life Ida Tarbell Exposes Standard Oil’s illegal practices Upton Sinclair Exposes Meat Packing Industry in The Jungle
government City Bosses like William Marcy Tweed “Boss Tweed” controlled city and state government Robert M. La Follett change government through his Wisconsin Plan. • Government reforms: • 17th Amendment • Secret ballot • Initiative
More changes Triangle Shirtwaist Fire changes safety codes Push for Workplace reform: Florence Kelley and child labor, Muller v Oregon Limits workday for women
changes Social Reforms: Settlement Houses /Jane Adam's Hull House, Ida Wells-Barnet anti-lynching laws, W.E.B. Du Bois NAACP, Sigmund Livingston Anti-Defamation League Housing Reform: Lights, Bathrooms
Suffragettes Alice Paul and Lucy Burns protest to gain right to vote, (19th Amendment) Women push for banning alcohol in U.S. (18th Amendment)
Teddy Square Deal = Treatment Trust buster Broke up big businesses National Parks System Bull Moose Party - Third Party
Taft Republican Candidate Only man in history to be both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Wilson First democrat since Civil War. Federal Reserve Act - set up a central banking system to control bank failures