Prof. Dani Vaughn-TuckerHistory 104: American History from 1865 to the PresentSpring 2009

“Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to

breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming

shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-

tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

- Emma Lazarus

Progressives wanted to Curb corporate powerEnd business monopoliesWipe out political corruptionDemocratize electoral proceduresProtect working peopleBridge the gap between the social

classes

Journalists Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Ray Stannard BakerNovelists Theodore Dreiser Upton Sinclair Thorstein VeblenEducator John Dewey

Promoted professional city managersAdvocated public ownership of

utilities

Settlement Houses Hull House founded by

Jane Addams Often established in

areas with recent European immigrants

Residents lobbied for state and federal legislation to make changes in their living and working conditions

InitiativeReferendumRecall17th AmendmentRobert La

Follette

Child labor lawsWork hour reformMinimum wageWorkmen’s compensationEnd to homeworkTriangle Fire (1911)

Prohibition Women’s Christian Temperance Union Anti-Saloon League of America

18th Amendment – provided for prohibition

21st Amendment – repealed prohibition

Margaret Sanger Nurse Birth control

advocate Believed in eugenics Considered to be a

racist by those in opposition to her views on birth control

Middle class people who shared common values

Supporters appreciated order, efficiency and expertise

Supporters encouraged investigation, experimentation and cooperation

Major goal was the regulation of big business

Theodore Roosevelt Known as a

“trustbuster” Revived the Sherman

Anti-Trust Act Pure Food and Drug

Act Hepburn Act Nature

conservationist

ImmigrationUrbanization Industrialization