1. Who Were The Progressives?

2. Progressives What do you think of when you hear….
More active Government
Science and Technology
Wisconsin : “Democracy Lab”
Suffrage (Alice Paul)
Prohibition
Reforms

3. Muckrakers pg. 357
Who were they?
What did they do?

4. Democratic Reforms Pg. 358
What were the 4 major reforms that began in Wisconsin?
What was the
commission plan?
What is scientific
management?

5. How did it come to be? Women’s Suffrage Pgs. 359 -360
What is the 19th amendment?
How did it come to be?
What is important about Seneca Falls?
What is NAWSA?

6. Reforming Society How did Progressives Solve these problems.
Social Welfare—
Child Labor—361
Prohibition—
Sherman Anti-trust
Act—
Big Business—
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire—361
How did Progressives
Solve these problems.

7. How Could it Happen?
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

8. Big Business Regulation: “Gentlemen’s Agreement”
What did the Department of Commerce and Labor do?
Why was the
Pure Food and
Drug act passed?

9. Conservation/Preservation
John Muir
Gifford
Pinchot
National
Parks

10. Politics William Howard Taft Elected president in 1908
Tariffs split the party
Payne Aldrich Tariff act
Upset Progressives (did not live up to
progressive ideals)
Prompted Roosevelt to run again
in 1912
Children’s Bureau (still exists)
Dedicated Conservationists
Busted more Trusts than Roosevelt
Got Stuck in the Bathtub

11. Wilson Years New Freedom vs. New Nationalism Tariff reform (Underwood
Tariff Act)
Income Tax -16th Amendment
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Big Business Regulation
Built on Roosevelt’s foundation

12. Problems with Progressivism
Did not do anything to help with race.
African Americans, Jews, Native Americans, Chinese, Southern Europeans still faced discrimination
Progressives turned a
blind eye to this
discrimination