Progressive Movement (Early 1900s)

Question 1

Who

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

Demands

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Solutions

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Candidates

Answer 4

Theodore Roosevelt (1912)

Question 5

Political Party

Answer 5

Bull Moose Party