Who were the Progressives?

Research each person listed in the left column. Give a brief description of who they were, which
progressive reforms they supported, and what actions they took to make a change.

The Progressives (1890-1920)

Who were they?

What reforms did this

person support?

How did they get their

message out?

Theodore Roosevelt

Politicians

Woodrow Wilson

Eugene Debs

American Union Leader.

Founding member of
The workers of the world

Social reforms

By helping to find The

workers of the World

American Republican.
Governor of Wisconsin.
Also a U.S Senator from
Wisconsin.

The insurgents.
Republicans.

Through speeches. Was

against vast corporate
combinations.

William Jennings
Bryan

Robert La Follette, Sr.

Upton Sinclair

Lincoln Steffens

Muckrakers

Ida Tarbell

Ray Stannard Baker

American journalist and

author

Social reform

Through writing.

Biographer

Piecemeal
parliamentary reforms.
Was against child labor

Through books

Jacob Riis

John Spargo

Jane Addams

Social Reformers

Susan B. Anthony

Booker T. Washington African-American

educator, author, orator,
and advisor to
presidents of the United
States
W.E.B. Du Bois

Education and social

reforms

Through books

Margaret Sanger

Planned parenthood,
birth control, family
planning.

Established organizations
such as the Planned
Parenthood Federation of
America.

Elizabeth Cady
Stanton

Birth control activist, sex

educator, and nurse