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The Progressives

The Progressives. Out to save the world!. The Progressive Era marks the end of the Gilded Age with its graft and corruption. Usually considered to be from roughly 1890 to World War I.

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The Progressives

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  1. The Progressives Out to save the world!

  2. The Progressive Era marks the end of the Gilded Age with its graft and corruption. Usually considered to be from roughly 1890 to World War I

  3. The Muckrakers were the investigative journalists of their day. Exposing evil became a flourishing business.

  4. Muckraking was directed at social ills like- child labor

  5. political corruption

  6. monopolies and trusts

  7. Upton Sinclair was a socialist, who wanted to improve the plight of the working class in America.

  8. Jane Adams Hull house slums

  9. “white slavery”

  10. Ida b wells subjugation of African Americans

  11. working conditions and the plight of labor

  12. Jacob Riis published a book of his photographs called How the Other Half Lives in which he depicted lives of poverty.

  13. photos by Jacob Riis

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