Moose Progressive or Bull Moose Party Donkey Democratic

Moose: Progressive or Bull Moose Party Donkey: Democratic Party Elephant: Republican Party

• Belief in progress • Society can work together to make life better for everyone

M u c k r a c k e r s S u f f r a g e t t e s P o p u l i s t s T e m p e r a n c e C i v i l L a b o r R i g h t s U n i o n s

What do these terms mean? • Muckrakers: Journalists who investigated political corruption and social conditions • Suffragettes: Wanted women's’ suffrage (vote) • Populists: More rights for farmers, workers, and consumers • Temperance: Prohibition of alcohol to solve society’s ills • Civil Rights: African American leaders • Labor Unions: Better wages and safer factories

• Reaction against government’s laissez faire economics & lack of regulation on business • Wanted to address problems created by industrial revolution AND urbanization

• Exposed corruption & poverty Jacob Riis: * Wrote about poor in How the Other Half Lives * Used photos to show conditions

• Goal: Make it more efficient, more democratic, and less corrupt – How? • City Commissions & Manager positions to get rid of local corruption • Direct primaries to allow the people to pick candidates • Initiative: citizens introduce laws • Referendum: citizens vote on law • Recall: remove corrupt officials • 17 th Amendment: Direction election of Senators (instead of state legislatures choosing)

SUFFRAGE: RIGHT TO VOTE • Leaders included Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul • Progressivism showed women they needed to vote in order to reform society • 19 th Amendment passed in 1919 giving women the right to vote.

Anti-Suffrage Movement

Woman Suffrage Before 1920

• Child Labor • Dangerous and unhealthy working conditions • Used in coal mines because of small size • Paid less than adult workers

• Problems confronting workers: – No workmen’s compensation for injured

• Zoning Laws: building codes, sanitation, fire escapes, and health codes • Prohibition/Temperance outlaw alcohol because it is the root of all evil – Leads to 18 th Amendment in 1919, outlawing alcohol.