Freaky Friday, October 30th Pick up a textbook on your way to your seat. Agenda: Warm-Up Progressivism Chart Home Fun: Get caught up on any incomplete assignments Notebooks Due next Friday FN: Progressivism Open your book to page 112 -113. Read the section Suffragists Win the Vote and answer the Critical Thinking question.

Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. 1. Copy all notes (unless you see a pencil with a red cross through it) There is no Essential question or summary Take notes on the maps and images as well Progressivism (1890s-1920) Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

PROGRESSIVISM Good Government Guys Suffragettes Civi l Rights Muckrackers Temperance Popul ists Goo Goos Labor Unions M i d - c l a s s Wo m e n Good Government Guys

Tensions during the Gilded Age Materialism & Corruption (Gilded Age) Progressivism Closed the western frontier [waste of natural resources]. Industrialization  Part II [corporate interests dominate]. Growth of the big cities [corrupt political party machines]. Glorification of American individualism [“Gospel of Wealth”]. Economic prosperity [wide gap between rich and poor]. Re-establish our moral energies. Belief in progress. Social & political activism [the positive power of govt. will bring about social progress]. Optimism about the future. Confidence  no problem is too difficult to overcome. Goal  revitalize American democracy.

The Progressive Movement The Heritage of Populism “Bryan” Democracy +  Progressivism New types of leadership. Political reformers. New generation of thinkers and scholars. “Muckracker” journalists. Influence of social Christianity. Increasing role of women.

Progressivism WHEN? “Progressive Reform Era” 1901 1917 WHO? “Progressives” urban middle-class: managers & professionals; women WHY? Address the problems arising from: industrialization (big business, labor strife) urbanization (slums, political machines, corruption) immigration (ethnic diversity) inequality & social injustice (women & racism)

Progressivism HOW? Democracy – government accountable to the people WHAT are their goals? Democracy – government accountable to the people Regulation of corporations & monopolies Social justice – workers, poor, minorities Environmental protection HOW? Government (laws, regulations, programs) FDA, Pendleton Act, Amendments, etc… Efficiency value experts, use of scientific study to determine the best solution wikipedia

Woman suffrage before 1920 Thomson Wadsworth Wadsworth.com

TEMPERANCE & PROHIBITION Eighteenth Amendment Henretta, America’s History 4e from http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/mapcentral Prohibition on the Eve of the 18th Amendment, 1919

Muller v. Oregon – Women’s Working Rights 1903 Oregon law limits number of hours women work to 10/day Supreme Court agrees that long hours hurt women and their families Backfires a bit when employers use this argument to pay women less

Muller v. Oregon "That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects upon the body, and as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of woman becomes an object of public interest and care in order to preserve the strength and vigor of the race."  Quick-Write What does this quote suggest about women’s physical abilities? How could this have been politically or socially harmful to women?

CONSERVATION: National Parks and Forests Faragher, Out of Many, 3rd Ed.; http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_faragher_outofmany_ap/

Teddy’s Bear Taft’s Billy Possum

STATE & FEDERAL POLITICAL REFORM Pendleton Act Gov’t Jobs based on merit not “spoils system” secret ballots Australian ballot direct primary People choose presidential candidates Seventeenth Amendment (1913) Senate term limits Wadsworth.com Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin Governor 1900-06

State Political Reforms initiative voters can create state laws if you get enough signatures you can put anything on the state ballot referendum voters can vote to allow or refuse state laws some laws can’t take affect until both the state congress and the voters approve it recall voter can vote out elected officials in 2003, Gov. Gray Davis became the 2nd governor to ever be recalled from office

Assassination of Garfield Guiteau believed Garfield owed him a position in the diplomatic corps Ends “Spoils System” Charles J. Guiteau

STATE POLITICAL REFORM Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920