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The Progressive Era emerged as a response to the corruption and inequality of the Gilded Age. Lasting approximately from 1890 to World War I, this period saw muckraking journalists bring social injustices like child labor, political corruption, and monopolies to light. Influential figures such as Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, and Jacob Riis played crucial roles in advocating for reforms and addressing issues like poor working conditions and poverty-stricken slums.
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The Progressives Out to save the world!
The Progressive Era marks the end of the Gilded Age with its graft and corruption. Usually considered to be from roughly 1890 to World War I
The Muckrakers were the investigative journalists of their day. Exposing evil became a flourishing business.
Muckraking was directed at social ills like- child labor
Upton Sinclair was a socialist, who wanted to improve the plight of the working class in America.
Jane Adams Hull house slums
Ida b wells subjugation of African Americans
Jacob Riis published a book of his photographs called How the Other Half Lives in which he depicted lives of poverty.
