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1 The Progressive Movement Chapters 18-19 1900-1920

2 Big Problems Facing America in the late 1800’s

3 u Rise in Cities…Jobs u Problems with Cities u Developments –Transportation, Sanitation u Patterns of Urban Growth

4 u Ellis Island u Nativism

5 Urban Politics u Political Machines (Bosses) –Tammany Hall

6 What is Progressivism? u Progressivism v. Populism –Cities, Middle Class, Educated, Moderate u Success u Goals & Effects

7 City and State Government Reforms u City Level –City Commission and City Manager u State Level –Initiative, Referendum, Primary System

8 Business Regulations u Business License u Public Utilities Commission u Courts gave support

9 Constitutional Amendments u 16 - Federal Income Tax u 17 - Direct Election of Senators

10 Constitutional Amendments u 18 - Prohibition u 19 - Women’s Suffrage

11 Teddy Roosevelt (R) u Background u Square Deal –Trustbusting –Coal Miners Strike –Meat Inspection Act –Pure Food and Drug Act

12 William Howard Taft (R) u Background u Problems –Tariff Issue –House Problems u Advances

13 Election of 1912 u Taft - (Rep) u Roosevelt - Progressive Party (Bull Moose) u Woodrow Wilson -(Dem)

14 Woodrow Wilson (D) u “New Freedom” Reforms –Underwood Tariff –Federal Reserve Act –Clayton Antitrust Act

15 Progressive Failures u Child Labor Laws u Discrimination –Jim Crow = Segregation –Booker T. Washington –W.E.B. DuBois

16 u Reserved Land u National Conservation Com. u National Park Service


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