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Progressivism Movement
People Involved-
WHITE AMERICANS WHO ATTEMPTED TO KEEP AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM VOTING
1880s to the 1920s.
Democratic President Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921), and others sympathetic to the views of the Progressives came to power.
Muckrakers were journalists who encouraged readers to demand more regulation of business.
*INparticular, they attempted to exclude illiterates, blacks, and others from voting, and to reduce immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe through devices such as a literacy test.
Congress enacted a law regulating railroads in 1887 (the Interstate Commerce Act), and one preventing large firms from controlling a single industry in 1890 (the Sherman Antitrust Act).
In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, and the income tax was instituted in the United States.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) showed America the horrors of the Chicago Union Stock Yards, a giant complex of meat processing that developed in the 1870s.
Many of today's U.S. regulatory agencies were created during these years, including the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. Muckrakers were journalists who encouraged readers to demand more regulation of business
