1. political, social and economic reform
CHANGE
political, social and economic reform

4. Remember the Populists?
Increase circulation of money (free silver)
Progressive income tax
Government ownership of transportation and communication
Support 8 hour work day

5. 4 Goals of the Progressive Era
Protecting Social Welfare
Promoting Moral Improvement
Creating Economic Reform
Fostering Society

6. Who is a progressive? Mostly Republicans (think Lincoln) Urban
Educated
Middle Class
Strong Faith in Science and Technology
Take different approaches to fixing problems
No one set of ideas or goals

8. Muckrakers
Progressive journalists who investigate social issues/political corruption
Ida Tarbell-wrote a series of stories on standard oil corruption
Upton Sinclair-wrote about factory conditions
Lincoln Stevens- political corruption/political machines
-put pressure on politicians to reform

12. Modern Muckraking

13. Efficiency Progressives
Scientific Management- working smarter not harder (Henry Ford)
City managements requires experts not politicians
commission plan-divided city government into departments –specialization

14. The Other Progressives

15. Problems weren’t just in the City.
Populism
Problems weren’t just in the City.

16. Who was a populist?
Farmers- many of those who had headed west in search of freedom and opportunity.
Some factory workers (but it never got that big on the east coast)

17. What did populists want?
Graduated income tax- the more you make the more you pay
An 8 hour work day- better for workers/safety
Restrictions on immigration- less competition for jobs
An increase in the money supply- more for everyone!!!!

18. Silver or Gold Silverites Goldbugs Wanted US currency backed by sliver
Would make more money but it would be worth less.
Logic- a little bit is better than nothing
Popular with populists
Supported money backed by gold
Would make less money but what you have is more valuable
Logic- fights inflation
Popular with people who have money (bankers, factory owners)

19. The closest they ever came
William Jennings Bryan- runs for president a few times, never gets close
(FYI-later in life he was the prosecutor at the Scopes Trial)
The party goes away as the democrats and republicans begin to take their ideas.

20. Remember the Populists?
Increase circulation of money (free silver)
Progressive income tax
Government ownership of transportation and communication
Support 8 hour work day

21. AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
Equality???

22. Remember Reconstruction?
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clauses

23. Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896
Legal case that tests the constitutionality of segregation
Supreme Court ruled that separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14th Amendment
“Separate but equal”

24. Suffrage isn’t a bad thing
Women & Children
Suffrage isn’t a bad thing

25. People to Know Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B Anthony Lucy Stone
Julia Ward Howe
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMENS SUFFERAGE MOVEMENT

26. Tactics of the Movement
Tried to convince state legislatures to allow women to vote
Tried to challenge as many cases as they could in court.
Which amendment did they use?
Pushed for an amendment to the constitution
What would that do?

27. Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York

30. Suffrage Movement
In 1920 we get the 19th amendment

31. Social Welfare Progressivism
Focus on crime, illiteracy, alcohol abuse, child labor, heath and safety

32. Child Labor 1.7 million children under age 16 work out of the home
“Bitter City” is published exposing poor condition and unfair treatment of child labor
States begin to pass child labor laws
-Mandatory public education laws soon follow

34. Health and Safety Codes
NY fire of 1911 causes thousands of deaths-states push for fire codes
Push for workers compensation due to injury/ illness
Zoning laws to keep communities safe
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

35. Prohibition
Temperance movement advocated moderation/elimination of alcohol
Believed alcohol caused city’s problems
Women’s Temperance Union
Anti Saloon League
18th Amendment= No more alcohol.

36. Socialism Idea government should own and operate industry
Eugene Debbs (remember the railroad leader from chapter 10) won 1million votes as the American Socialist party leader
The book wants to make a connection between socialism and progressivism.

37. Lasting Effects of Progressivism
Belief that government should pass laws to:
protect workers
regulate business
try to regulate the economy
fix social problems (although some minorities feel let down by progressives, NAACP)

38. La Follette Governor of Wisconsin who pushes for political reforms
Direct Primary- voters choose who runs in General Election
Initiative-citizens introduce legislation
Referendum-voters make decisions on legislation
Recall-voters call for special elections to remove elected officials

40. 17th Amendment Direct election of senators
Seen as a counter to state corruption
Victory for the progressive movement

41. Wrap – Up Question
Choose two of the four goals of the Progressives and briefly explain them.