1. The Progressive Era Business and Politics Society Gender and Race

2. Business and Political Reforms

3. At all levels of government, there was corruption! How did reforms work to stop this? O City commissioners O Civil Service Commission

4. To encourage more participation in government... O 17 th amendment changed the way senators were elected O Election Reform (Oregon System)

5. Trusts and big business were getting too powerful! O Sherman Antitrust Act O Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal O Federal Trade Commission O Clayton Antitrust Act

6. Railroad oligopolies were being unfair! OIOInterstate Commerce Act/Commission

7. Were need to preserve our country and conserve our resources! OUOU.S. Forest Service ONONational Conservation Commission

8. Taxes are too high! O “New Freedom” tariff reform O 16 th Amendment (

9. Banks needed to be regulated! OFOFederal Reserve Act

10. Society

11. We had serious social problems related to alcohol! O Women’s Christian Temperance Union O Anti-Saloon League O 18 th amendment prohibited making, selling, or transporting alcohol

12. We had unsafe food and medicine! O Meat Inspection Act O Pure Food and Drug Act

13. We had ridiculously difficult working conditions! O Children’s Bureau of Labor Department O Women’s Trade Union League O Mine/railroad safety standards O Keating/Owen Act

14. Gender and Race

15. Women should have the right to vote! O Woman suffrage movement O State-by-state voting rights O National Woman’s Party O 19 th Amendment (gave women the right to vote)

16. We need to fight prejudice and discrimination! O Tuskeegee Institute O National Negro Business League O Niagra Movement O National Association for the Advancement of Colored People O Society of American Indians O Mexican American mutualistas

17. Progressives wanted reform.