Progressive Era Changes: MUNICIPAL & STATE REFORMS
MUNICIPAL REFORM municipal reform utilities - water, gas, electricity, trolleys council-manager plan (Dayton, 1913) Shoe line - Bowery men with gifts from ward boss Tim Sullivan, February, 1910
MUNICIPAL REFORM council-manager plan (Dayton, 1913) COUNCIL MEMBER CITY MANAGE R COUNCIL MEMBER strong mayor system COUNCIL MEMBER MAYOR CITY SERVICE S
STATE POLITICAL REFORM secret ballots direct primary Seventeenth Amendment (1913) o initiative o referendum o recall Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin Governor
STATE POLITICAL REFORM Voter Participation in Presidential Elections,
STATE SOCIAL REFORMS professional social workers settlement houses - education, culture, day care child labor laws o Enable education & advancement for working class children
STATE SOCIAL REFORMS workplace & labor reforms o eight-hour work day o improved safety & health conditions in factories o workers compensation laws o minimum wage laws o unionization o child labor laws Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1913
State Social Reform: Child Labor Child Laborers in Indiana Glass Works, Midnight, Indiana Child Laborer, Newberry, S.C “Breaker Boys” Pennsylvania, 1911 Shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Bay St. Louis, Miss., March 3, 1911
Settlement Houses Hull-House – Jane Addams Jane Addams (1905)Hull-House Complex in 1906
TEMPERANCE Temperance Crusade Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Anti-Saloon League Frances Willard ( ), leader of the WCTU Anti-Saloon League Campaign, Dayton
TEMPERANCE & PROHIBITION Eighteenth Amendment Prohibition on the Eve of the 18th Amendment, 1919
SOCIALISM ALTERNATIVES
SOCIALISM Socialist Party Eugene V. Debs Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or “Wobblies”) Socialists parade, May Day, 1910 Eugene V. Debs
Who helped make these changes? “Fighting Bob”
Robert M. LaFollette’s Born in Primrose, WI (1855)Born in Primrose, WI (1855) U.W. Law School (1880)U.W. Law School (1880) House of Representatives ( )House of Representatives ( ) Governor of WI ( )Governor of WI ( ) U.S. Senator ( )U.S. Senator ( ) Presidential Candidate (1924)Presidential Candidate (1924)
Robert LaFollette’s – “Wisconsin Idea” PROGRESSIVE REFORMS
Progressive Reforms 1913 Taxable Income Rate $3,000-20,0001% $20,000-50,0002% $50,000-75,0003% $75, ,0004% $100, ,0005% $250, ,0006% $500,000+7% 2005 Taxable Income Rate $0-10,000 10% $10,000-35,050 15% $35,051-98,250 20% $98, ,100 28% $159, ,950 30% $311, % Graduated Income Tax – 16th Amendment
Progressive Reforms Workers Compensation
Progressive Reforms Government control of Railroads
Progressive Reforms Money for Education
Progressive Reforms Civil Service Reform
Wisconsin Idea – Voting Reform
Direct Primary – Election open to all voters in a political party
Initiative – Lets voters introduce a law.
Referendum – People vote for or against a proposed law
Recall – Gives citizens the chance to remove elected officials
Legacy of LaFollette Opposed US entry into World War IOpposed US entry into World War I
Legacy of LaFollette Opposed US entry into World War IOpposed US entry into World War I Third Party Candidate in the 1924 Presidential ElectionThird Party Candidate in the 1924 Presidential Election
Legacy of LaFollette Opposed US entry into World War IOpposed US entry into World War I Third Party Candidate in the 1924 Presidential ElectionThird Party Candidate in the 1924 Presidential Election Made Wisconsin a leader in social and political reformMade Wisconsin a leader in social and political reform