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What kind of a movement were the Progressives? |
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Mostly a middle class and urban movement. |
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| What was the aim of the Progressives? |
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| To recapture an earlier age when individuals made important decisions in American life |
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| What did the progressives want to conserve? |
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| traditionial American values |
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| What kind of philosophy did the Progressives like? |
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| pragmatism by William James |
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| Describe McClure's Magazine. |
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| it was the perfected "muckraking article" that was a combination of sensationalism and careful research. |
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- Ida Tarbell ---> wrote about abuses of the Standard Oil Company
- Lincoln Steffens ---> exposed corruption of political machines
- Jacob Riis ---> revealed life in tenements
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| Name some Muckracking novelists. |
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- Upton SinClair --->wrote The Jungle
- Frank Norris --->wrote The Octopus
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| What was the significance of the muckrackers? |
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| Although they did NOT offer solutions for the problems, they exposed those problems and made the public aware of them. |
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