Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e Chapter Twenty: The Progressives

The Progressive Impulse The Progressive Impulse –Varieties of Progressivism  “Antimonopoly”  Faith in Knowledge –The Muckrakers  Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens 2 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives The Progressive Impulse The Progressive Impulse –The Social Gospel  Father John Ryan –The Settlement House Movement  Jane Addams and Hull House “One could hear human virtue cracking and crashing all around.” Walter Rauschenbusch 3 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives The Progressive Impulse The Progressive Impulse –The Allure of Expertise –The Professions  American Medical Association  National Association of Manufacturers 4 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lawyers’ Club in New York (Library of Congress)

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives The Progressive Impulse The Progressive Impulse –Women and the Professions  Female-Dominated Professions Women Stenographers (Library of Congress) 5 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Women and Reform Women and Reform  Key Role of Women in Reform Causes –The “New Woman”  Socioeconomic Origins of the New Woman  “Boston Marriages” –The Clubwomen  GFWC  A Public Space for Women  Women’s Trade Union League 6 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives The Colored Women’s League of Washington (Library of Congress) 7 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Women and Reform Women and Reform –Woman Suffrage  Radical Challenge of Women’s Suffrage  NAWSA  Conservative Arguments for Suffrage  Nineteenth Amendment  Equal Rights Amendment 8 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Suffragette Banner (Library of Congress)

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives The Assault on the Parties The Assault on the Parties  Reforming Government –Early Attacks –Municipal Reform  Middle-Class Progressives –New Forms of Governance  Commission Plan  City-Manager Plan  Tom Johnson 9 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives The Assault on the Parties The Assault on the Parties –Statehouse Progressivism  Initiative and Referendum  Direct Primary and Recall  Robert La Follette 10 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives The Assault on the Parties The Assault on the Parties –Parties and Interest Groups  Decline of Party Influence Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Sources of Progressive Reform Sources of Progressive Reform –Labor, the Machine, and Reform  Triangle Shirtwaist Fire –Western Progressives Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Library of Congress) 12 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Sources of Progressive Reform Sources of Progressive Reform –African Americans and Reform  W.E.B. Du Bois  NAACP Founded 13 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives “Is it possible and probable that nine millions of men can make effective progress in economic lines if they are deprived of political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meager chance for developing their exceptional men?” W. E. B. Du Bois 14 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Crusade for Social Order and Reform Crusade for Social Order and Reform –The Temperance Crusade  WCTU  Eighteenth Amendment –Immigration Restriction  Eugenics and Nativism 15 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Total Immigration, Sources of Immigration, © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Challenging the Capitalist Order Challenging the Capitalist Order –The Dream of Socialism  Eugene Debs  “Wobblies”  Socialism’s Demise –Decentralization and Regulation  The Problem of Corporate Centralization  “Good Trusts” and “Bad Trusts” 17 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Assassination of McKinley (Library of Congress) Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency –The Accidental President  Roosevelt’s Background 18 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency –Government, Capital, and Labor  Roosevelt’s Vision of Federal Power  Northern Securities Company 19 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Theodore Roosevelt in Hunting Attire (Library of Congress)

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency –“The Square Deal”  Hepburn Act  Pure Food and Drug Act Advertising The Jungle (Library of Congress) 20 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency –Roosevelt and Conservation –Roosevelt and Preservation Establishment of National Parks and Forests 21 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Establishment of National Parks and Forests 22 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency –The Hetch Hetchy Controversy  Competing Conservationist Visions Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite (Library of Congress) 23 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency –The Panic of 1907  Tennessee Coal and Iron Company 24 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Troubled Succession Troubled Succession  William Howard Taft –Taft and the Progressives  Payne-Aldrich Tariff  Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute William Howard Taft (Library of Congress) 25 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Troubled Succession Troubled Succession –The Return of Roosevelt  “New Nationalism” –Spreading Insurgency –Roosevelt versus Taft  The Progressive Party 26 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Taft has) “…completely twisted around the policies I advocated and acted upon.” Theodore Roosevelt

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom –Woodrow Wilson  Wilson’s “New Freedom” Election of © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom –The Scholar as President  Lowering the Tariff  Federal Reserve Act –Retreat and Advance  Child Labor Laws Woodrow Wilson (Library of Congress) 28 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives Where Historians Disagree: Progressive Reform 29 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter Twenty: The Progressives America in the World: Social Democracy 30 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.