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The Progressives
Out to save the world!
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The Progressive Era marks the end of the Gilded Age with its graft and corruption.
Usually considered to be from roughly 1890 to World War I
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The Muckrakers were the investigative journalists of their day. Exposing evil became a flourishing business.
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Muckraking was directed at social ills like-
child labor
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political corruption
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monopolies and trusts
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Upton Sinclair was a socialist, who wanted to improve the plight of the working class in America.
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Jane Adams Hull house
slums
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“white slavery”
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Ida b wells
subjugation of African Americans
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working conditions and the plight of labor
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Jacob Riis published a book of his photographs called How the Other Half Lives in which he depicted lives of poverty.
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photos by Jacob Riis