The Progressive Movement Chapters

Big Problems Facing America in the late 1800’s

u Rise in Cities…Jobs u Problems with Cities u Developments –Transportation, Sanitation u Patterns of Urban Growth

u Ellis Island u Nativism

Urban Politics u Political Machines (Bosses) –Tammany Hall

What is Progressivism? u Progressivism v. Populism –Cities, Middle Class, Educated, Moderate u Success u Goals & Effects

City and State Government Reforms u City Level –City Commission and City Manager u State Level –Initiative, Referendum, Primary System

Business Regulations u Business License u Public Utilities Commission u Courts gave support

Constitutional Amendments u 16 - Federal Income Tax u 17 - Direct Election of Senators

Constitutional Amendments u 18 - Prohibition u 19 - Women’s Suffrage

Teddy Roosevelt (R) u Background u Square Deal –Trustbusting –Coal Miners Strike –Meat Inspection Act –Pure Food and Drug Act

William Howard Taft (R) u Background u Problems –Tariff Issue –House Problems u Advances

Election of 1912 u Taft - (Rep) u Roosevelt - Progressive Party (Bull Moose) u Woodrow Wilson -(Dem)

Woodrow Wilson (D) u “New Freedom” Reforms –Underwood Tariff –Federal Reserve Act –Clayton Antitrust Act

Progressive Failures u Child Labor Laws u Discrimination –Jim Crow = Segregation –Booker T. Washington –W.E.B. DuBois

u Reserved Land u National Conservation Com. u National Park Service