1. Progressivism

2. Why Now? No more American frontier Technological Advances Urbanization
1890 Census
Frederick Jackson Turner
The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
The frontier had shaped American character
Technological Advances
Printing and Photography made issues easier to document and share
Urbanization

3. 1890 US Census Map

4. Four Goals Promoting Social Welfare Promoting Moral Improvement
Creating Economic Reform
Fostering Efficiency

5. Promoting Social Welfare
Social Gospel Movement
Salvation Army
Florence Kelley
Chief inspector of factories in Illinois
Pushed for the Illinois Factory Act in 1893
Limited women’s working hours and eliminated child labor

6. Promoting Moral Improvement
Prohibition
Temperance Movement
18th Amendment (1919)
Anti-Saloon League

7. Creating Economic Reform
Panic of 1893
Corruption in RR’s
Concern over tariffs
15,000 businesses & 500 banks collapsed
Socialism
Muckrakers
Journalists who exposed corruption in businesses and society
Ida M. Tarbell
Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives
Unions

8. Fostering Efficiency Social Jurisprudence Scientific Management
Justice Louis Brandeis
Scientific Management
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
Improved factory efficiency

9. Robert La Follete (R, P) Wisconsin Governor (1901-1906)
Senator ( )
Champion of Progressive Movement
Wanted corporations out of government
Target and regulate RR’s
Wisconsin Idea
Primaries, workers comp, direct election of U.S. Senators, progressive income tax
Anti-WWI
Runs for President (Progressive Party)
17% of the vote

10. Robert La Follete

11. Labor Reform Many immigrant children sent to work
National Child Labor Committee (1904)
Keating-Owen Act (1916)
Prohibited transportation of goods across two states that were made using child labor
Muller v. Oregon (1908), Bunting v. Oregon (1917)
10 hour work day
Workers compensation

12. Child Labor

13. Election Reform Oregon adopts secret ballot Primary System
Adds initiative, referendum, and recall
20 states adopt these by 1920
Primary System
Allowed the citizens to choose candidates for public office
2/3 of the nation has a primary system by 1915
17th Amendment (1913)
Direct election of U.S. Senators by the people

14. Women in Progressivism

15. Working Women 1 in 5 women had jobs Farm Industry Working in homes
25% of working women are in manufacturing
Paid lower wages
Office jobs
Working in homes
Cleaned homes for other families

16. Changes for Women Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911) Education Reform
146 workers killed
Education
Vassar College (1865)
Smith College, Wellesley College
Reform
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
Susan B. Anthony
National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

17. Suffrage Strategy Gain voting rights through state legislation
Wyoming (1869), Utah/Colorado/Idaho (1890s)
Court Cases
Challenge the 14th Amendment
Amend the US Constitution
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
19th Amendment (1920)