Past Political Reforms
Robert M. Lafollette
Robert M. Lafollette was a senator and a governor of Wisconsin. He believed in a plan to eliminate corruption in big businesses. This was to expose and undercut political power of local bosses. As a result of this plan he started a movement. This movement is known as the progressive movement.
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast was a cartoonist who drew political cartoons to expose the problems with political corruption. Mainly his cartoons we focused on New York’s political machine. These political Machines were candidates that would run for positions in New York’s government and they would bribe their voters with money and alcohol. Thomas Nast eventually was convicted of embezzlement and thrown in jail. He later died in that jail.
Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer who worked to fight against sweatshops and their bad wages, poor work conditions and tainted meat. She later became the Chief Factory inspector at the Hull house settlement in Chicago. This job was to inspect the factories of the entire state of Illinois. She then founded the National Consumers league which fights against the poor work conditions of all sweatshops.
Robert M. Lafollette was a senator and a governor of Wisconsin. He believed in a plan to eliminate corruption in big businesses. This was to expose and undercut political power of local bosses. As a result of this plan he started a movement. This movement is known as the progressive movement.
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast was a cartoonist who drew political cartoons to expose the problems with political corruption. Mainly his cartoons we focused on New York’s political machine. These political Machines were candidates that would run for positions in New York’s government and they would bribe their voters with money and alcohol. Thomas Nast eventually was convicted of embezzlement and thrown in jail. He later died in that jail.
Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer who worked to fight against sweatshops and their bad wages, poor work conditions and tainted meat. She later became the Chief Factory inspector at the Hull house settlement in Chicago. This job was to inspect the factories of the entire state of Illinois. She then founded the National Consumers league which fights against the poor work conditions of all sweatshops.
- Robert M. Lafollette
A Cartoon by Thomas Nast from the Progressive Era
Florence Kelley
Current Political Reformers
The Cagle Post
The Cagle Post is a website made by Daryl Cagle that exposes problems with our government in the form of political cartoons. They do this to inform the public on the issues that we should not only fight for, but be educated about so that our government can’t just push us around. Some of his political cartoons focus on topics of racism, the government shutdown, and even the newly found inappropriateness of Miley Cyrus. Sarah Palin Sarah Palin is a former governor of Alaska and is currently a member of The Feminists of Life. She fights for equality among the workplace, including equal rights such as, equal pay, equal treatment, job opportunities, and anti-sexism. She also launched a “Pink Elephant Movement” to help female representatives in their running for office. She also spoke at the fundraiser for the Susan B. Anthony List, which is a nonprofit organization that fights to end abortion in the U.S. Dorothy Height Dorothy Height is a African-American Women's rights activist. She is a member of YWCA with the highest level of leadership. Height was responsible for getting ride of all desegregation for all of YWCA's facilities nation wide. She also received a series of metals for her work. One of these include the Presidential Medal of Freedom which she received in 1994. |
Political Cartoon from The Cagle Post
Sarah Palin
Dorothy Height
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