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1 Righting the wrongs of the Gilded Age
Progressive Era Righting the wrongs of the Gilded Age

2 Progressives Saw problems in Government, Society, the Economy, and morality Believed that through science and technology, these issues could be resolved Did not believe in Laissez Faire

3 Problems… Society: Massive city growth, increased crime, fire, disease, pollution Usage of alcohol increases dramatically Leads to immoral behavior Working conditions hazardous Need for regulation/labor laws Children Exploited in workplace Needs regulation Women’s Suffrage Still not Voting!! How is my Hotdog made?!? Do I really want to know….?

4 Problems… Government:
Progressives believed that the Government needed to be fixed first All other problems would be solved after this Efficiency Use scientific management to run the government Commission plan—breaking city government into specialized departments Corruption City leaders picked supporters, friends to run departments Senators easily bribed, etc. Leads to 17th Amendment (1913)

5 Problems… Need for Democracy
Make elected officials more accountable and responsive to constituents Wisconsin as “Lab for Democracy” 1st state to introduce reform Party Bosses nominated delegates and candidates Introduces DIRECT PRIMARY, INITIATIVES, REFERENDUM, RECALL

6 WISCONSIN Direct Primary Initiative Referendum Recall
All party members vote for candidate in election Initiative Citizens can introduce legislation Referendum Allowed citizens to vote on legislature Recall Voters can demand a special election to remove an elected official

7 Wisconsin by Example After early successes in Wisconsin…
Try it on national level! Forest Service, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, FDA, etc. Why FDA?? Upton Sinclair: “ I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

8 Upton Sinclair Muckraker, socialist
“Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer-men, and those who served in the cooking-rooms. These people could not be shown to the visitor,—for the odor of a fertilizer-man would scare any ordinary visitor at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,—sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard!” –The Jungle, chapter 9

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