During The Progressive Era

Starting into the 20th century the people knew that the Gov’t had to take more responsibility and they could’t have any more laissez-fare officers Well before 1900 and after, politicians and writer had began to pin point targets for the progressive attack The social Gospel promoted a brand of progressivism based on Christian based teaching to help get better housing and living conditions for the poor. many women improved the fight for their list of needed reforms The Progressive had their roots with the Green Back labor party and the populist party

II. Racking Muck with the Muckrakers

Beginning about 1902 a group of ten and fifteen percent popular magazines begun to through up dirt about trust muckraker - An early twentieth-century
Woodrow Wilson, conservative who had been the president of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey * In 1912, , the Democrats nominated Wilson on the 46th ballot * The Democratic ticket would run under a platform called “New Freedom,” which would include many progressive reforms. At the Progressive convention, Jane Addams put Theodore Roosevelt’s name on the nomination * TR became the nomination for the progressive when entering into the campaign, TR mentioned that he felt “ strong as a bull moose,” making moose the unofficial Progressive symbol. Republican William Taft and TR began to bicker, as the former friends, they became enemies and now ripped every aspect of each other’s platforms and personalities. Meanwhile TR’s had a new idea called “New Nationalism” and Wilson’s new idea was “New Freedom” became the key issues of the election. * Roosevelt’s New Nationalism was inspired by Herbert Croly’s the government should control the “bad trusts” leaving the “good trusts” alone and free to