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womens suffrage
NAWSA
pressure on state legislatures
protests in white house -
Problems with progressivism
Trusts and big business have grown too powerful
corrupt political machines
unequal distribution of wealth
unsafe workplaces -
Muckrackers try to promote progressive causes
Jacob Riis writes about poverty in the Urban slums
Upton Sinclair exposes unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants in chicago
:Lincoln Steffens writes about political corruption -
political reforms in state and local government
new forms of government to improve local government
election reforms reduce the power of political machines
open primary elections prevent political machines form choosing the candidates -
presidential election of 1912
william howard taft angered progresives
payne aldrich tariff keeps tariff rates high
republican party splits -
Plessy VS. Ferguson
supreme court supports "seperate but equal"
