1. The Progressives

2. Political Reform

Religious Leaders

Corruption

Boss Tweed

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Progressives saw political corruption as both a cause and a symptom of the growing urban disorder .In thisThomas Nastcartoon, a pack of vultures waits out a storm.The vultures have the heads of the infamous Boss Tweed and his gang.Boss Tweed was William Marcy Tweed, leader of the Tammany political organization that controlled the Democratic Party in New York City in the late 1800s.The Tweed Ring grew rich and powerful through its control of New York City expenditures and the patronage jobs it could give loyal Democrats .But in part because of Nasts cartoons, public anger was roused over Tweeds criminal activities.In time, this storm of outrage on the part of Progressives and others drove Tweed from power and, ultimately, to prison.

4. A Group of Vultures Waiting for the storm to Blow Over Let Us Prey

Bones and Skulls

Law

Justice

Suffrage

Liberty

New York City Treasury

Rent Payer

Tax payers

5. Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918). Social Gospel challenged laissez-faire Gospel of Wealth, the intellectual justificationsof privilege and wealth in the19th century .The church must transform society as well as save individual souls. 6. Progressive leader Father John A. Ryan.

The Catholic church, too, produced important Progressive leaders such asFather John A. Ryan (protected Catholic immigrant workers) , who sought to prevent the exploitation of working men and women many of them Catholic immigrants that produced poverty and political corruption.1930 photo.

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Wisconsin Idea,

People select political candidates

First state income tax

Replaced aspoils system with a state civil service , and pushed through regulations for factory safety, railroads, and public utilities.

Robert La Follette at his desk in 1906. The best known Progressive reformer at the state level wasRobert La Follette(1855-1925)of Wisconsin. 8.

Thomas Loftin Johnson(1854-1911), a Progressive mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1901 to 1909,

Fought for public ownership reducing the costs of essential services , such as transportation, and electric and gas utilities.

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An urban reform demanded most frequently by city dwellers was thereform and professionalization of city police forces . Here, one of New York City's Finest poses for the camera in 1907.