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Progressive Era 1890’s – 1920’s

Progressive Era 1890’s – 1920’s. Protecting social welfare Promoting moral reform Creating economic reform Fostering efficiency. Moral Reform. Prohibition idea begins during early 1900’s. Meatpacking plants. Upton Sinclair (muckraker) wrote The Jungle. Woman wanted suffrage.

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Progressive Era 1890’s – 1920’s

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  1. Progressive Era1890’s – 1920’s • Protecting social welfare • Promoting moral reform • Creating economic reform • Fostering efficiency

  2. Moral Reform Prohibition idea begins during early 1900’s

  3. Meatpacking plants Upton Sinclair (muckraker) wrote The Jungle

  4. Woman wanted suffrage

  5. Assembly line jobs Because of new technologies machines were built that made factories run more efficiently Big business formed monopolies (trusts)

  6. Teddy Roosevelt Promised the American public a square deal.

  7. Trustbusting Breaking up monopolies was called trustbusting. Taft was a bigger trust buster but Teddy got the glory.

  8. 19th AmendmentWoman’s Suffrage 1920 Women earn the right to vote.

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