Populism = Rural issuesProgressivism = Urban issues

-Middle & upper class people-Women jump on board! Why?

-Reform the workplace!-Limit monopolies & trusts! (reduce corporate power)-Social issues: elections, education, equality

-Progressive journalists join in the fight! Muckrakers !!!-Munsey’s, Everybody’s, McClure’s Magazine-Told of corruption in politics and business-Increased awareness of social issues

-“History of the Standard Oil Company”-Local Hero!! Allegheny College, Titusville-The “Terror of the Trusts”

- The Jungle

-Female & child laborers-Equal pay, safer conditions, shorter days, no children, minimum wage-Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

-Corporations fight back!-14th Amendment protects property, right?-Freedom of contract-Muller v. Oregon

-Louis Brandeis (Brandeis Brief)

-Closed Shop-Socialism

(American Federation of Labor)

(International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union)

(Industrial Workers of the World)

-William “Big Bill” Haywood-Wobblies

-Over 50% of pop. Living in cities-Housing, sanitation, police & fire protection, education, recreation-Lawrence Veiller

-NY Tenement House Act-Daniel Burnham

-City planning (Chicago)

-Prohibition – banned the manufacture, sale & transportation ofalcoholic beverages

-Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)-18th Amendment

-Many progressives do not want to include minorities-Some minorities do succeed, but major change is decades away

(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

* Americanization