The Progressive Era (Rihanna's "Umbrella" Parody) - @MrBettsClass 

The Progressive Era changed society and politics and this song will forever change how you hear the song "Umbrella."
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There was a rage coming off of the Gilded Age
The people wanted change, someone to regulate
To fix society, one plagued by pain and greed
And to make government fair. The Progressive Era
Here’s the Muckrakers exposing corruption
The Shame of Cities by Steffens
How the Other Half Lives
Shows conditions of life you won’t believe
Sinclair’s The Jungle’s disgusting
Ida Tarbell got us discussing
Shady tactics of Rockefeller
Welcome to the Progressive Era
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It’s the Progressive Era
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Three Presidents, starting with Roosevelt
Square Dealing for the 3 C’s, busting up corporate greed
But Taft wants to bust them all, good or bad, they all must fall
Bull Moose decides to run, Wilson wins the election
Meanwhile,16th Amendment taxing income
17th makes direct election
Of the Senators at last
Prohibition is 18, how did it pass
Women are finally granted suffrage
Voting rights no longer abridged
19th Amendment is another
Triumph of the Progressive Era
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It’s the Progressive Era
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Civil rights, they don’t advance for African Americans
In these decades
Washington and Du Bois can’t agree
Ida B. Wells implores for the anti-lynching cause
Unions, if you’re white, male, and skilled, AFL
The Wobblies were for everyone else
Limiting child labor
Better working conditions for him and her
You’d think that we’d learn a lesson
In the 20s, there’s regression
Still the U.S. was made the better
By gains of the Progressive Era