1. The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism

2. ProgressivismThe Progressives Middle Class Nurture Over Nature ‘Realistic Generation’ Optimistic

3. Social and Economic Reformers – crusaded for better housing, cleaner streets, improved sanitation, safer factories and more humane working conditions and challenged unchecked power of giant corporations and “trusts.” Not surprisingly, such reforms most often had working-class support. Cultural Reformers – campaigned against what they saw as immorality and vice embodies in prostitution, gambling, and especially, drinking. Less likely to enjoy support of working class. Political Reformers – tried to rein in urban political machines and political corruption. Sometimes they worked for expanded political franchise (as in the movement for women’s suffrage), but at other times they actually restricted voting rights (by backing literacy tests.)

4. The Social Justice Movement ‘Muckrakers’ Working Women and Children – National Child Labor Committee – Children’s Bureau in Department of Labor – Muller v. Oregon – Woman Suffrage – Birth Control Movement Home and School Anti-Vice Crusades – Saloons Women’s Christian Temperance Union Anti-Saloon League 18 th Amendment (Adopted in 1919, repealed in 1933) Movie Theaters – D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915) Prostitution

9. The Worker in the Progressive Area Adjusting to Industrial Labor – U.S. as Industrial Power – Fordism – Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) Union Organizing – American Federation of Labor (AFL) – National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) – Organizing Female Workers Women’s Trade Union League Garment Workers and the Triangle Fire – New York City Garment Workers/Working Conditions – 1909 Strike (ILGWU and WTUL) – Fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Company Investigative Commission State Legislation Industrial Relations Commission (1912) Women’s Suffrage Radical Labor – Industrial Workers of the World

22. Reform in the Cities and States Municipal Reformers City Beautiful Movement Reform in the States – “Democratic” Laws – Child/Female Labor Bills – Robert La Follette, Wisconsin

23. Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal A Strong and Controversial President Dealing with Trusts Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drugs – Upton Sinclair, The Jungle – Meat Inspection Act, 1906 – Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906 Conservation and Preservation – Roosevelt – National Forests, Newland Act, National Conservation Commission – Gifford Pinchot – John Muir Sierra Club Yosemite National Park Boy Scouts (1910) Camp Fire Girls (1912) Hetch-Hetchy Debate William Howard Taft The Election of 1912 – Woodrow Wilson – Democrat – William Howard Taft – Republican – Theodore Roosevelt – Progressive Party – Eugene V. Debs - Socialist

24. Progressivism for Whites Only Progressive Contradiction – Booker T. Washington – W.E.B. Du Bois – Niagara Movement – NAACP

25. Progressive Contradiction Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois The Niagara Movement The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

30. Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Tariff and Banking Reform – Underwood Tariff – 16 th Amendment – Federal Reserve system Wilson’s Limitations Moving Closer to a New Nationalism – Clayton Act – Federal Trade Commission (FTC) The Progressive Presidents The Limits of Progressivism