Progressive Leaders  

1.) Upton Sinclair- meat industry-  

2.) Lincoln Steffens- government corruption -

3.) Ida Tarbell- reform monopolies (standard oil) -

4.) Jacob Riis- living conditions -

5.) Frank Norris- farming -

6.) Helen Hunt Jackson- Native American Rights -

7.) Eugene Debs- railway workers rights -

8.) Robert LaFollette- government reform - 

9.) John Muir- land conservation- 

10.) Gifford Pinchot- wilderness management -

11.) Lewis Hine- living conditions -

12.) W.E.B. Dubois- African American rights -

13.) Ida Wells- African American rights -

14.) Florence Kelley- child labor, consumer rights -

15.) Carrie Nation- prohibition- 

16.) Susan B. Anthony- suffragist - 

17.) Alice Paul- women’s rights -

18.) Carrie Chapman Catt- women’s rights -

19.) Jane Addams- urban problems -

20.) Margaret Sanger- women’s reproductive rights -

21.) Booker T. Washington- African American rights -

22.) Emma Goldman- women’s rights -

23.) Emma Goldman- worker’s rights - 

24.) Theodore Roosevelt- trustbuster -

25.) Theodore Roosevelt- conservationist -

26.) Theodore Roosevelt- protecting health - 

27.) John Dewey- education -

28.) Clara Barton- nursing -

29.) Mary McLeod Bethune- Women’s Suffrage/A.A. Rights- 

30.) Thomas Nast- Political Cartoonist-

31.) Woodrow Wilson- President/Business Regulations- 

32.) William Taft- President/ Business Regulations -

33.) Mother Jones- Mine Workers-

34.) Samuel Gompers- Union Organizer-