Progressive Era

Progressive Era

1. Goals

   • Promoting Social Welfare
     • helping the poor/immigrants
   • Promoting moral improvement
     • Giving women more money
   • Creating Economic Reform
     • Fixing problems between the workers, factory owners & the rich
   • Fostering Efficiency
     • correcting injustices in American Life

2. Teddy Roosevelt

   • Square Deal
     • All businesses have an equal opportunity
   • "Trust Buster"
     • Goes after people that limit fair trade and competition

3. Women

   • Alice Paul
     • Would do get women the right to vote
   • Carrie Chapmann
     • Women's suffrage activist

4. Muckrakers

   • Journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life
     • Jacob Riis
       • Exposed housing conditions
     • Upton Sinclair
       • The Jungle
     • Ida Tarbell
       • The History of Standard Oil

5. Imperialism

   • New Military Strategies
   • New products to sell to new people and new places
   • Social Darwinism
     • Some places are inferior to the U.S
   • Roosevelt Corollary
     • U.S. has the right to protect to money through military intervention