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Progressivism is defined as seeking to create a just society through governmental action, direct democracy, and volunteerism; progressivism challenged the traditional American way of thinking and governing.Slide3
I. The Progressive Era
What is progressivism?
A political response to industrialization and its social by-products: immigration, urban growth, corporate power and inequality
Distinct from populism: strength lay in cities, enlisted journalists, academics, and social theorists
Consisted of reformers wanting to remedy social ills but not destroy the systemSlide4
Who were the progressives?
Native born protestant middle class
Sought to apply principles of profession (medicine, law)
Muckrackers
: journalists who exposed a variety of social problems
Lincoln Steffens: exposed city machines,
The Shame of the Cities
(1904)Slide5
Ida Tarbell: exposed Standard Oil TrustSlide6
Upton Sinclair: wrote The Jungle (1906) attacked the meat packing industry
McClures
Magazine: published articles exposing political corruption and corporate wrongdoingSlide7
Political Reformers: crusaded against corrupt city governments (Hiram Johnson, Samuel Jones)
Working Class: crusaded for government intervention to ensure safety and security
Socialist: disillusioned progressives
Questioned the inequality between rich and poor
Preached takeover of American business
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) “
wobblies
”-advocated confrontation and violence
Rejected by most progressives as too extreme in their goals and methods