New York (1905) invalidated a New York law that limited the work day to 10 hours for bakers. Oregon (1908), the Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional to enact laws that specifically protected women factory workers. Some of these included the Women's Trade Union League and the National Consumers League.įlorence Kelley took control of the NationalĬonsumers League in 1899 and mobilized female consumers to pressureįor laws safeguarding women and children in the workplace. Women formed clubs in which they discussed and proposed solutions for societal problems ( club movement). Johnson helped toīreak the grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics Laįollette was a governor of Wisconsin who took control from the corrupt corporations and States used public utility commissions to regulate railroads and trusts. It established the direct election of U.S. Reformers convinced Congress to pass the 17 th Amendment in 1913. They also supported the " referendum" and the " recall," which allowed voters to directly vote on laws to remove corrupt elected officials, respectively. Voters could directly propose legislation. Progressives wanted to regain the power that had shifted from the hands of the people into those of the "interests." Progressives To control trusts 2) To improve the common person's conditions of life and labor. The progressives sought 2 goals: 1) To use state power Progressive reformers were mainly middle-class men and Spargo wrote of the abuses of child labor in The Bitter Cry of the Ray Stannard's Following the Color Line (1908). The suppression of America's blacks was shown in Some of the most effective attacks of the muckrakers wereĭirected at social evils. Senators did not represent the people, but they rather represented railroads and Treason of the Senate" in Cosmopolitan that charged that 75 of the 90 Tarbell published a devastating depiction of the Standard Oil Company.ĭavid G.
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In 1902, New York reporter, Lincoln Steffens wrote " The Shame of theĬities" which unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and These reporters went after trusts and politicians. Muckrakers were reform-minded journalists who wrote articles in magazines that exposed corruption and scandal. Socialists and feminists were at the front of social Riis shocked middle-class Americans inġ890 with How the Other Half Lives, which described the slums of New York.
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Henry Demarest Lloyd was critical of the Standard Oil Company in 1894 with his book, Wealth AgainstĬommonwealth. It sought to use the government to improve human welfare, and they fought monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice. The progressive movement started at the beginning of the 20th Century. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt