Progressive Movement

Goals of the Progressives Social Welfare Moral Improvements Economic Reform Fostering Efficiency

Social Welfare YMCAs Salvation Army Child Labor (Women) Florence Kelly back back

Florence Kelley Fixing the workplace for woman and children

Moral Improvement Prohibition (Alcohol Outlawed) Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Kindergarten Prisons and Asylums Women’s Suffrage back back

Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony Leader NAWSA National American Woman Association Fought for women’s suffrage

The Three Strategies Used To Achieve Women’s Suffrage Lobby state legislatures to grant women the vote. By the early 1900s, women's groups had won the right to vote in 12 states. Lobby state legislatures to grant women the vote. By the early 1900s, women's groups had won the right to vote in 12 states. Court cases to test the 14 th Amendment. Court cases to test the 14 th Amendment. National amendment to the US Constitution (19 th ) National amendment to the US Constitution (19 th )

Economic Reform Eugene V. Debs Socialist Ran for president in 1912 Muckrakers Journalists exposing corruptness in government & business. back

Eugene V. Debs American Railroad Union Leader Socialist

Muckrackers Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell

Upton Sinclair Wrote the novel The Jungle about conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry.The Jungle It caused a public uproar. Led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat InspectionMeat Inspection Act Act in 1906.

Efficiency Making the workplace more efficient. Scientific method Scientific Management Assembly line [Henry Ford] Lower working hours

Local Government Commission (Galveston) City department experts Council-Manager Mayors - better living conditions [Robert La Follett]

Robert La Follette Reform Governor of Wisconsin “Fighting Bob” Made the railway industry a major target

State Governments Regulate big business Out of politics Limit working hours Limit child labor

Changing State Government Initiative Referendum Recall - let voters remove officials before the end of their regular term. Directly elect Senators

Helping Women Women Colleges Susan B. Anthony Suffrage [NAWSA] State Passage, court cases, 19 th A mendment

Roosevelt Presidency

Theodore Roosevelt - Youngest President ever elected (42-years-old) - Progressive Reformer

Teddy Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” Trust-busting Federal interventions with strikes (1902 coal mining strike) Railroad Regulation

Roosevelt (continued) Meat Inspection Act Upton Sinclair The Jungle Pure Food & Drug Act Conservation Bull Moose Party

Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Provided for federal inspection of meat products Forbade the sale of adulterated food products or poisonous patent medicines. Made sure products were labeled correctly

Conservation Led by Theodore Roosevelt and Giford Pinchot Federal ownership of lands, rather that private ownership Organized water projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas System of National Parks, forests and wildlife preserves

Taft Presidency

Taft’s Reforms Fought for the prosecution of trusts (issuing 75 lawsuits) Supported the 16th and 17 th Amendments

Taft Alienates Supporters Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909) was too high for most reformers Taft took credit and upset many Republicans. Taft lost the support of antitrust reformers (who disliked his conservative rhetoric), of big business (which disliked his actions), and of Roosevelt, who felt humiliated by his protégé

Election of 1912

Republicans Split Progressive Party – Teddy Roosevelt Taft raised the tariffs and the poor were upset. He allowed businesses to use National Park land

Bull Moose Party Roosevelt started it He was upset at Taft, because Taft wasn’t progressive enough.

Civil Rights W.E.B Du Bois Niagara Movement NAACP Booker T. Washington

NAACP Started by African- American and white Reformers in 1909 Sought equality among the races

Wilson Presidency ( )

Wilson – New Freedom Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Trade Com. Federal Income Tax Federal Reserve System

Clayton Antitrust Prohibited exclusive sales contracts local price cutting to freeze out competitors rebates interlocking directorates in big corporations back

Federal Trade (Act) Commission Enforces anti-trust laws consumer protection laws back

Underwood Tariff Lowered Tariffs; therefore… 16 th Amendment Graduated Income Tax Poor do not pay back

Federal Reserve Central Bank Controls Money supply Interest rates to banks

Progressive Amendments 16 th Federal Income Tax 17 th Direct Senatorial Elections 18 th Prohibition 19 th Women Suffrage

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