Progressive Movement (Early 1900s) Flashcards

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Who

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  • Middle class Americans, especially women
  • Muckrakers: Bring problems of society to public attention
  • Ida Tarbell : Book on the Standard Oil Company
  • Upton Sinclair: The Jungle on meatpacking industry
  • Jacob Riis: How The Other Half Lives poverty in tenements
  • Jane Addams: Hull House, settlement houses for immigrants
  • Ida B Wells: Organized anti-lynching crusade
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Demands

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  • Make government accountable to citizens
  • Curb power of wealthy
  • Be more active in the lives of individuals
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Solutions

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  • Direct Primaries
  • 17th Amendment
  • Initiative
  • Referendum
  • Recall
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Candidates

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Theodore Roosevelt (1912)

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Political Party

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Bull Moose Party

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