Progressives supported the poor. Progressives believed that the government should be more responsive to the people’s needs.
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Progressives targeted corrupt government officials in order to make the government more responsive to the people’s needs.
What were some of the problems that progressivist targeted and why?
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How did progressives help with city government reform
the establishment of the Galveston plan helped protect city residents from unfairly high rates on basic utilities
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Muckrakers were journalist and writers that wrote about the things that were wrong with America in the 1800’s. One prominent was Lincoln Steffens he was the editor at McClure’s which was a magazine known for uncovering social problems. Another one was Jacob Riis who was a photographer for the New York Evening Sun. He took pictures of crowded, unsafe, rat infested tenement building where the urban poor lived.
What is a muckraker
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False, The United States had the highest rate of industrial accidents.
True or False? In the early 1900s the United States had the lowest rate of industrial accidents in the world.
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Allowed citizens to approve or reject laws passed by a legislature
What is Referendum
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Progressives helped the poor by, creating settlement housing, banning child Labor, improving education, and protecting the workers from factory accidents.
How did Progressives help the urban poor, children, election, and industrial workers?
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an election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections
What is Direct Primary
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What is workers' compensation laws
Many states adopted THESE, which set up fund to pay workers who were hurt on the job
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The belief that by following the Bible's teachings about charity and justice people could make society "the kingdom of god"
What is Social gospel
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What is a settlement house
This was a community center that provided social services to the urban poor