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 * Chapter 21 preview:**

progressivism - a belief in the improvement of society

progressives - people who believed in that idea

era of progress - a specific time period where that belief in improvements flourished

muckrakers - journalists who exposed truths in social, political, and economic areas

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african american rights and opportunities - can vote, but can't get a decent job womens' rights and opportunities - can't vote, can get some jobs political corruption - making politics more democratic alcohol - professional standards/occupational expertice - training for specific jobs/ rigorous jobs, regulation concentrated economic power (i.e. trusts/monopolies) - environmental conservation - immigration - working conditions - urban housing conditions - child labor -
 * progressivism topics**

W.E.B. Du Bois - opposition to the New Atlantic proposition || "new woman" - women began moving out of the house, got jobs, gained income, moved out of niche carved for themselves Nineteenth Amendment - gave women political rights || recall, direct primaries, initiative, and referendum - several new efforts to limit power of party and imporve the quality of elected official party-manager plan - it would || prohibition/Eighteenth Amendment - congress passed amendment to constitution putting prohibition (stopping production/sale/distribution of alcohol) into place ||
 * **ISSUE** || **PROBLEMS** || **SOLUTIONS** ||
 * african american rights and opportunities || could vote but could not hold jobs || NAACP
 * womens' rights and opportunities || could hold jobs but could not vote || new developments in social working provided new field for women to actually work in
 * political corruption || trusts and bosses had too much control/influence over || muckrakers - exposing political corruptions in various outputs
 * alcohol/temperance movement || opposition to alcohol || Womens' Christian Temperance Union - publicized evils of alcohol
 * professional standards/occupation expertice ||  ||   ||
 * concentrated economic power ||  ||   ||
 * environmental conservation ||  ||   ||
 * immigration ||  ||   ||
 * working conditions ||  ||   ||
 * urban housing conditions ||  ||   ||
 * child labor - ||  ||   ||


 * socialism** is the idea where everyone kinda shares in everything; much more about equality and economic justice than capitalism; mainly opposing to concentration of power