1. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA A REVIEW

2. 4 AREAS OF REFORM FOSTER EFFICIENCY PROTECT SOCIAL WELFARE PROMOTE MORAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC REFORM

3. MUCKRAKERS Journalists who wrote about the problems of society and/or industry Who were some Muckrakers?

4. REFORMS Local Governments Regulating Business Child Labor Laws 8 hour Workday / 40 hour week Workers Compensation Initiative Referendum Recall Direct Election of Senators (17 th Amendment)

5. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Square Deal Trustbusting Coal Miners Strike User of the bully pulpit Conservation (John Muir) Meat Inspection Act (1906) Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

6. THE JUNGLE Upton Sinclair

7. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Largest president (350 lbs) Stuck in the bathtub Hand picked by TR (was VP under TR) Busted 90 trusts but... No Progressives in his cabinet Not interested in conservation Supreme Court Chief Justice

8. 1912 ELECTION TR unhappy with Taft Taft ran on the Republican ticket TR ran on third party ticket (Progressive Party) also known as Bull Moose Party Eugene V. Debs ran for a 5 th time – Socialist Party Woodrow Wilson was the democratic nominee

9. 1912 ELECTION The Republican vote was split between Taft and Roosevelt Allowed the Democrat, Wilson to be elected president of the US.

10. WOODROW WILSON New Freedom Clayton Anti Trust Act – Strengthened the Sherman Anti Trust Act Federal Reserve System – Regulates the banking industry 16 th Amendment 19 th Amendment

11. WOMEN First demanded the right to vote in 1848 (although Abigail Adams had asked her husband “remember the ladies in 1776) Susan B Anthony/Elizabeth Cady Stanton (both died before the 19 th Amendment) Alice Paul Carrie Chapman Catt Lucy Burns

12. WOMEN

13. CIVIL RIGHTS (OR LACK THEREOF) 13 th, 14 th and 15 th Amendments Jim Crow Laws Plessy v Ferguson – Supreme Court ruled “separate but equal”

14. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute – vocational technical education for African Americans (skills) W.E.B. DuBois (first African American graduate from Harvard) – co founder of NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 1909. Called for full equality among the races. His writings forced Americans of all races to think and act differently towards African Americans.

15. THE END The Progressive Era was brought to an end with the entry of the US into World War I