1. 23. From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
THE THREE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS

2. Progressive Issues Effects of Industrialization
Ability of Americans to correct problems
Ready to intervene in the lives of others
Willing to use the power of government
Evangelical Protestantism
Effected the entire nation

3. Professions to Create Change
Law, medicine, education, sociology
Young educated middle class forms base of progressive movement

4. Social-Justice Movement
Child labor laws
Housing laws
Better working conditions for women
City improvements
Parks
Day Care
Schools
Playgrounds

5. Purity Crusade Temperance and Prohibition Prostitution World War I
18th Amendment
Prostitution
Mann Act
Banned interstate transportation for immoral purposes.

6. Women’s Suffrage National American Woman Suffrage Association
NAWSA
Carrie Chapman Catt
Focused on states
Congressional Union
Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
Focused on federal government

7. In Education Pragmatism (William James) Problem Solving
Rejection of divine or natural laws
John Dewey stressed free inquiry and creativity.

8. In Law Separation of adult and juvenile crime
Affect of environment on the offender

9. Growth of Socialism Worked to overthrow capitalism
Followers of Karl Marx
Eugene V. Debs, American leader

10. Decline of Popular Politics
Voter participation declines sharply
Politics is no longer a national past time.

11. Municipal Reform Set up their own forms of government
Commission system (Galveston, Texas)
City manager (Staunton, Virginia)
Public ownership of utilities

12. State Reform Worker’s Compensation (Maryland)
End of political machines (New York)
State regulatory commissions
Initiative and referendum (Oregon)
17th Amendment (Senate elections)
Recalls

13. Robert M. La Follette Governor of Wisconsin Reforms Factory safety
Workers’ compensation
Educational improvements
Utility controls
Conservation
Direct primaries

14. Theodore Roosevelt The Progressive President
Took the progressive reforms to a national level.

15. Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Square Deal for Labor
(equal support to workers)
Trust-busting
Railroad regulation
Elkins Act (1903)
Hepburn Act (1906)

16. Consumer Protection Pure Food and Drug Act Meat Inspection Act
This grisly photo depicts a meat-packing plant before passage of the Meat Inspection Act. The socialist writer whose 1906 novel The Jungle created a public outcry about the state of the meat-packing industry was Upton Sinclair

17. Conservation Grand Teton National Park
150 million acres of federal land held as national reserve
Newlands Reclamation Act (1902)
National Conservation Conference (1908)
Grand Teton National Park

18. National Park System

19. Picked His Republican Successor
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft

20. William Howard Taft Continued Roosevelt’s progressive policies
More aggressive at trust busting
Set up Bureau of Mines
Mann-Elkins Act (1910) more power to ICC
16th Amendment: Collect income tax

21. Ballinger was Secretary
Angers Republicans
Payne-Aldrich Tariff: Raised instead of promised reduction
Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy: Supported Ballinger in disagreement, Pinchot was Roosevelt’s favorite
Ballinger was Secretary
Of the Interior
Gifford Pinchot was
Chief of US Forestry

22. Election of 1912

23. Splitting the Ticket

24. Woodrow Wilson
Complex man: idealistic, intellectual, righteous, inflexible
New Freedom: to bring back conditions of free and fair competition in the economy

25. Federal Trade commission
Business Regulation
Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Trade commission
Federal Farm Loan Act
Child Labor Act

26. First to address Congress
Policies
Tariff Reduction
Banking reform
First to address Congress

27. Set up the Federal Reserve

28. Progressive Amendments
Sixteenth: Income Tax
Seventeenth: Direct election of senators
Eighteenth: Prohibition
Nineteenth: Women’s Suffrage

29. Great Migration 1910 – 1930 Black population shifts to northern cities
Push factors
Deteriorating race relations
Destruction of the boll weevil
Pull factors
Job opportunities in the north
Escape from racism of the south

30. War on the Horizon

31. Progressive Era Ends with WWI

32. Which of the following statements is true of Eugene Debs?
Strongly favored capitalism
Was active in the arts
Founded the Anti-Saloon League
Worked against Progressive reforms
Was a socialist leader in the early 1900s

33. Focused on the racial isssues of the day
Which of the following is NOT one of the main characteristics that defined Progressivism?
National in scope
Focused on the racial isssues of the day
Willing to intervene in people’s lives
Fundamental optimism about human nature
Concerned with the effects of industrialization

34. The Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution
Allowed for the direct election of senators
Limited the president to two terms
Banned the government from running a deficit
Limited the terms of all Federal office holders
Cancelled the 11th Amendmnt

35. Who was the author of the book “The Jungle”?
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Bob La Follette
Upton Sinclair
Jane Addams

36. Which city pioneered the commission form of government?
Boston, MA
Galveston, TX
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Des Moines, Iowa

37. Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom
Favored large trusts and corporations
Argued in favor of black civil rights
Favored small business competition.
Was based on the concept of world-wide free trade
Was thoroughly rejected by Congress.