progressive social

Women's Rights

Jul 19, 1848

The rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide, and formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century.

Settlement Houses

1880

Reformist social movement with the goal of getting the rich and poor to live more closely together in an interdependent community

Muckrakers

1906

Journalists who attacked business and government leaders as corrupt in order to raise awareness of the many issues left over from the Gilded Age.