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Progressive Movement 1890 -1920
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Goals of the Progressives Social Welfare Moral Improvements Economic Reform Fostering Efficiency
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Social Welfare YMCAs Salvation Army Child Labor (Women) Florence Kelly back back
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Florence Kelley Fixing the workplace for woman and children
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Moral Improvement Prohibition (Alcohol Outlawed) Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Kindergarten Prisons and Asylums Women’s Suffrage back back
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Suffrage
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Susan B. Anthony Leader NAWSA National American Woman Association Fought for women’s suffrage
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The Three Strategies Used To Achieve Women’s Suffrage Lobby state legislatures to grant women the vote. By the early 1900s, women's groups had won the right to vote in 12 states. Lobby state legislatures to grant women the vote. By the early 1900s, women's groups had won the right to vote in 12 states. Court cases to test the 14 th Amendment. Court cases to test the 14 th Amendment. National amendment to the US Constitution (19 th ) National amendment to the US Constitution (19 th )
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Economic Reform Eugene V. Debs Socialist Ran for president in 1912 Muckrakers Journalists exposing corruptness in government & business. back
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Eugene V. Debs American Railroad Union Leader Socialist
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Muckrackers Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell
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Upton Sinclair Wrote the novel The Jungle about conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry.The Jungle It caused a public uproar. Led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat InspectionMeat Inspection Act Act in 1906.
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Efficiency Making the workplace more efficient. Scientific method Scientific Management Assembly line [Henry Ford] Lower working hours
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Local Government Commission (Galveston) City department experts Council-Manager Mayors - better living conditions [Robert La Follett]
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Robert La Follette Reform Governor of Wisconsin “Fighting Bob” Made the railway industry a major target
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State Governments Regulate big business Out of politics Limit working hours Limit child labor
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Changing State Government Initiative Referendum Recall - let voters remove officials before the end of their regular term. Directly elect Senators
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Helping Women Women Colleges Susan B. Anthony Suffrage [NAWSA] State Passage, court cases, 19 th A mendment
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Roosevelt Presidency 1901-1909
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Theodore Roosevelt - Youngest President ever elected (42-years-old) - Progressive Reformer
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Teddy Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” Trust-busting Federal interventions with strikes (1902 coal mining strike) Railroad Regulation
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Roosevelt (continued) Meat Inspection Act Upton Sinclair The Jungle Pure Food & Drug Act Conservation Bull Moose Party
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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Provided for federal inspection of meat products Forbade the sale of adulterated food products or poisonous patent medicines. Made sure products were labeled correctly
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Conservation Led by Theodore Roosevelt and Giford Pinchot Federal ownership of lands, rather that private ownership Organized water projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas System of National Parks, forests and wildlife preserves
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Taft Presidency 1909-13
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Taft’s Reforms Fought for the prosecution of trusts (issuing 75 lawsuits) Supported the 16th and 17 th Amendments
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Taft Alienates Supporters Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909) was too high for most reformers Taft took credit and upset many Republicans. Taft lost the support of antitrust reformers (who disliked his conservative rhetoric), of big business (which disliked his actions), and of Roosevelt, who felt humiliated by his protégé
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Election of 1912
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Republicans Split Progressive Party – Teddy Roosevelt Taft raised the tariffs and the poor were upset. He allowed businesses to use National Park land
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Bull Moose Party Roosevelt started it He was upset at Taft, because Taft wasn’t progressive enough.
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Civil Rights W.E.B Du Bois Niagara Movement NAACP Booker T. Washington
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NAACP Started by African- American and white Reformers in 1909 Sought equality among the races
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Wilson Presidency (1913-1921)
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Wilson – New Freedom Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Trade Com. Federal Income Tax Federal Reserve System
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Clayton Antitrust Prohibited exclusive sales contracts local price cutting to freeze out competitors rebates interlocking directorates in big corporations back
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Federal Trade (Act) Commission Enforces anti-trust laws consumer protection laws back
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Underwood Tariff Lowered Tariffs; therefore… 16 th Amendment Graduated Income Tax Poor do not pay back
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Federal Reserve Central Bank Controls Money supply Interest rates to banks
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Progressive Amendments 16 th Federal Income Tax 17 th Direct Senatorial Elections 18 th Prohibition 19 th Women Suffrage
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