1. Who is this lady and what did she stand for???

2. Brain Scan 20% of Males between 25 and 34 are now living where?
At home
One out of seven Americans have ten of these. What are they?
Credit Cards
Every state in the U.S. has a city with this name. What is it?
Lincoln

3. What does the word “Progressive” mean?
Progressive Era
What does the word “Progressive” mean?

4. Progressive Goals Progressives urged the government to:
Distribute Wealth Equally
Protect Social Welfare
Promoting Moral Improvements
Creating Economic Reform and Stop Unfair Business Practices
Reduce government corruption
Fostering Efficiency

5. The Origins of Progressive Era

6. Social Reforms

7. Social Welfare Reform Movement
People/Groups Involved
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
YMCA, Salvation Army, Settlement Houses, Hull House, etc…
Jane Adams, Florence Kelly, etc…
Created a variety of public services

8. People/Groups Involved Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
Moral Reform Movement
People/Groups Involved
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Anti-Saloon League
Frances Willard, Carey Nation, etc…
Prohibition adopted by many town and state governments
18th Amendment (Prohibition)

9. Economic Reform Movement
People/Groups Involved
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
American Socialist Party, Muckrakers
Eugene Debs, Ida Tarbell, etc…
Exposed corruption in different industries
Equal distribution of wealth
16th Amendment (Income Tax)

10. Movement for Industrial Efficiency
People/Groups Involved
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
Ford Motor Company
Fredrick Winslow Taylor, Henry Ford, etc…
Ford Assembly Line, the “Five Dollar Day”, Scientific Management

11. Movement to Protect Workers
People/Groups Involved
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
National Child Labor Committee
Louis Brandeis, Florence Kelly, Josephine Goldmark, etc…
Keating-Owen Act, Workers Compensation, 10 hour workday for women and men

12. Political Reforms

13. Movement to Reform Local Government
People/Groups Involved
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
Commissions, City Councils
Hazen Pingree, Tom Johnson (Socialists)
Property taxes, public ownership of utilities and transportation, as well as other economic reforms

14. State Reform of Big Business
People/Groups Involved
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
Robert M. La Follette, James Hogg, etc…
Laws regulating railroads, and end government corruption because of relationships with Big Business

15. Movement for Elections Reform
People/Groups Involved
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
William S. U’Ren
Secret Ballot, Initiative, Referendum, recall, direct primary, and the 17th Amendment (direct election of senators)

16. Women in Public Life
Chapter 17 Sec 2

17. What types of jobs were women in each group likely to hold?
Lower Class
Middle and Upper Class
Agricultural, domestic and manufacturing
White-collar jobs (book keepers, stenographers, operators, etc…)

18. What types of jobs were women in each group likely to hold?
African Americans
Immigrants
Agricultural and domestic
Agricultural, domestic, piecework, taking in boarders, and manufacturing

19. New women’s colleges established
How did educational opportunities for middle-and upper-class women change?
New women’s colleges established

20. How did these new opportunities affect the lives of middle-and upper-class women?
Marriage was no longer a woman’s only alternative
Offered opportunity to pursue a profession
Allowed to devote oneself to reform movement

21. Suffrage
What three strategies were adopted by the suffragist to win the vote?
What results did each strategy produce?
Tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote
Pursued court cases to test the 14th Amendment
Campaigned for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho granted women the vote (other states it failed)
The Supreme Court ruled that women were citizens, but that citizenship did not automatically confer the right to vote
It was always voted down

22. Progressive Presidents
T.R./TAFT/WILSON

23. Teddy Roosevelt Big Business
Enforced Sherman Anti-Trust Act (49 Cases)
Hepburn Act (Interstate Commerce Commission)
Federal Reforms
“Square Deal”=progressive reforms to even the playing field
Negotiated deals b/t workers and owners (ex: coal strike 1902)
Meat Inspection Act /Pure Food and Drug Act
Conservation
National Reclamation Act (1902) Set aside 200 million acres of land
U.S. Forest Service (1905)
Civil Liberties
Women
Supported Women Suffrage
Race
Failed to truly endorse African Americans
Invited Booker T Washington to the White House

25. William Taft Big Business Enforced Sherman Anti Trust Act (90 cases)
Lowered Tariffs slightly (Payne Aldrich Act)
Federal Reforms
Supported Labor
Department of Labor
Conservation
Allowed private business group to obtain several millions of acres of Alaskan public land (angered conservationists)
Reserved more land then T.R.
Civil Liberties
Women
Supported Suffrage
Race
Talked about issues but did nothing for African Americans

26. Woodrow Wilson Big Business Clayton Anti-Trust Act Federal Reforms
16th Amendment=income tax
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve System
Supported strikes, picketing, and boycotts
Conservation
Signed the National Park Service Bill (1916)
Civil Liberties
Women
Lightly supported Suffrage
Race
Extended Jim Crow Laws
Endorsed “Birth of a Nation”

27. What were the reasons for these “Progressive” movements?
To address the problems that had contributed to the social upheavals of the 1890’s

28. Election Of 1912 % Popular Vote party Candidate
Woodrow Wilson Teddy Roosevelt William Taft Eugene Debs
Democrat Bull Moose Republican Socialist
6,296,000 4,118,000 3,486, ,000
42% (435) 27% (88) 23% (8) 6% (0)

29. Why did Wilson win the Presidential Election of 1912?
Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican Ticket

30. Progressive Era Legislation
Date
Legislation
Purpose
1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Outlawed monopolies and unfair business practices
1905
United States Forest Service
Create to manage nation’s water and timber resources
1906
Meat inspection Act
Required federal inspection of meat processing to ensure clean conditions
Pure Food and Drug Act
Outlawed dishonest labeling of food and drugs
1913
Department of Labor
Cabinet department created to promote welfare of working people