“Fighting Bob” La Follette, the Progressive Governor of Wisconsin and later Republican Seantor in the early 1900’s.

Change:• Industrialization, immigration,

and urbanization

Problems:• Poor working conditions• Consumer fraud• Unfair practices by large

corporations and trusts• Political corruption• Destruction of wilderness

areas due to industrialization

Reformers

Progressives

Ida Tarbell, an influential journalist of the Progressive Era.

Bringing Problems to the public eye • Muckrakers: men and women

who exposed the problems to the public

• Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens---corruption in city governments

• History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine’s photos of working and living conditions

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Lewis Hines’ photo of 10 year-old coal miner bent from years of toil during his young life

• Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire in 1911

Food industry

No safeguards to the consumer• People don’t

deal directly with the people from whom they bought their food

• Soldiers died from tainted meat

Result:• President Roosevelt pushed Congress to

pass meat inspection laws

• Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

Political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt wrestling with a figure representing the railroad industry.

Monopolies

*“Trust Buster” Teddy Roosevelt

*Woodrow Wilson

• Federal Trade Commission Act 1914

• Clayton anti-trust act

Women’s suffrage (the vote)

1920:WOMEN WIN THE RIGHT TO VOTE!

YAY! FINALLY!

President Teddy Roosevelt and conservationist John Muir

Roosevelt; ‘Father ofThe National parks”

Conservation of natural resources

W E Du Bois

NAACPNational Advancement of Colored People