1. Chapter 7: The Progressive Era

2. You could be in any party and still be a Progressive
You could be in any party and still be a Progressive. They wanted to fix:
Unregulated industrialization
Unplanned urbanization
Unrelenting immigration
Social instability
Economic injustice
Political corruption

3. The Muckrakers
Muckrakers were named by TR because they could only look down at the problems of society
The muckrakers saw their primary objective as exposing social problems to the public.

4. Features of Progressivism:
Democracy – the direct primary, initiative, referendum, recall, & the 17th amendment
Efficiency – scientific government, commission system, city-manager plan
Regulation – restore the competition of small firms
Social Justice – private charities like Settlement Houses, labor legislation for children, and women
Prohibition – amendment sent to the states in 1917
Robert M. La Follette

5. Triangle Shirtwaist Company Disaster in 1911

7. Teddy Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”
He called for enforcement of exiting anti-trust laws
During the 1902 Coal Strike TR won support for his use of the “big stick” against business
By taking these actions TR expanded Federal power

8. Teddy Roosevelt’s Own Term
The Hepburn Act – authorized the ICC to set maximum rates for railroads

9. Upton Sinclair author of the Jungle
TR signed The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act (b/c of the novel the Jungle)
Upton Sinclair author of the Jungle

10. Teddy Roosevelt and Conservation
TR was an ardent conservationist and sportsman
Environmental Conservation with his friend George Bird Grinnell who the Audubon Society

11. Vs. The 1908 Presidential Race The Democrats once again nominate
William Jennings Bryan
TR’s hand picked successor was
Republican
William Howard Taft

12. Taft as President
Domestic Policies i.e. the Tariff and Department of Interior
Conservation
Anti-Trust suit against United States Steel
16th and 17th Amendments

13. The Presidential Election of 1912
William Howard Taft
Nominated
by the
Republicans
2,500,000 votes
8 Electoral Votes
Woodrow Wilson Democrat 6,300,000 votes
435 Electoral Votes
Eugene V. Debs Socialist
Socialism- advocates
State ownership
of business
Anti-Capitalism 900,000 votes
Theodore Roosevelt Split the Republican Party and started a Progressive Party “The Bull Moose Party”
4,100,000 votes
88 Electoral Votes

15. Wilson’s 1st Term as President
The Tariff
Wilson appointed William Jennings Bryan as secretary of state
The Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Highways Act
No Woman’s Suffrage
Allowed Racism in Gov.
No support for Anti-Child Labor laws
No Support for Farmers

16. The Federal Reserve

17. The Federal Highway Act
Passed in 1916
This also marked a sharp turn from Jacksonian opposition to internal improvements at federal expense
This would help the farmers with their new automobiles

18. Limits of Progressivism
At the same time of progressivism blacks were losing their rights
Progressivism was mainly for the middle-class not the poor
Voter turn out would see a steady decline
When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917 the Progressive Era would end