The Progressive Movement

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The Progressive Movement

• Looking closer at how America began to change

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The Progressive Movement

• Many people came to the aid of the progressives,
  including newspaper journalists and magazine
  editors
• They helped expose the corruption of big business

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The Progressive Movement

• Muckrakers Journalists and writers who helped
  bring reform issues to the attention of the
  public
• They helped investigate and expose corruption and
  injustice through articles in popular magazines

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The Progressive Movement

• Origins of Progressivism Video

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The Progressive Movement

• The most famous was Upton Sinclair and his novel,
  The Jungle
• His novel helped tell the story of unsanitary
  conditions that people had to work in in a meat
  packing plant

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The Progressive Movement

• Read
• Attack on Meatpackers, Upton Sinclair

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The Progressive Movement

• President Teddy Roosevelt after reading this
  novel, passed the Meat Inspection Act that we
  still have today

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The Progressive Movement

• Read
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• The Theodore Roosevelt Administration

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The Progressive Movement

• Teddy Roosevelt (T.R.) was the first progressive
  president and focused his reforms on regulating
  business and equal rights
• T.Rs presidency is known as the Square Deal

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The Progressive Movement

• Square Deal video

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The Progressive Movement

• Women were involved in all aspects of the
  Progressive Movement
• Their main goal was suffrage
• Suffrage The right to vote!

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The Progressive Movement
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The Progressive Movement

• Susan B. Anthony was a leader of the womens
  right movement
• 1920 the 19th Amendment was passed giving women
  the right to vote

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The Progressive Movement

• 1908 President Taft was elected and continued
  President Roosevelts progressive ways
• 1912 President Wilson was elected with his New
  Freedom platform and re-elected in 1916