Progressive Era

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Progressive Era

• Power Point Presentation produced by Mr.
  Houstons US History Class at Harwich High School
  for test review purposes.
• Visit American History Class Website for
  additional information http//www.harwich
  .edu/depts /history/amr.htm
• Resources Groliers Encylopaedia, U Virginia
  Map Collection, Internet Sites, NARA, LOC

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Progressive Movement, 1900-1920

• Led by Urban, Middle-class, professionals.
• Goal improve, regulate modern, industrial, urban
  society.
• Means promote democratic institutions.

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Muckrakers

• Journalist who sought to expose evils of modern,
  industrial, urban, capitalist society.
• nickname came from Teddy Roosevelt in a literary
  reference to Bunyans Pilgrims Progress.

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Lincoln Steffens

• The Shame of the Cities
• The Shame of the States

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Upton Sinclars The Jungle

• Exposed horrors of meat-packing industry in
  Chicago.
• Showed difficult life of Immigrants.
• Led to Pure Food Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act

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Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil

• History of Standard OilCompany
• Exposed tactics of John D. Rockefeller

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W. E. B. DuBois

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People

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Carrie Chapman Catt

• 19th Amendment
• National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Alice Paul

• National Womens Party
• split with NAWSA
• Uncompromis-ing, radical on equality

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Alice Paul

• Was a feminist, suffragist, and political
  strategist
• Founded the Congressional Union for Womens
  Suffrage
• Founded National Womens Party

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Alice Paul

• Encouraged women and girls to take leadership
  within their communities
• Dedicated her life to securing equal rights for
  both women and men
• Authored the Equal Rights Amendment (19th
  Amendment)
• Quote When you put your hand to the plow, you
  cant put it down until you get to the end of the
  row.

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Alice Paul
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Robert LaFollette

• By Paul and Kelly

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Robert LaFollette

• Robert Marion LaFollette (1855-1925)
• Political Reformer
• A founder of the Progressive Movement
• Spearhead for political reform in Wisconsin and
  the nation for 25 years
• LaFollette opposed the protective Payne-Aldrich
  tariff
• Served 3 years as a Republican Congressman

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Continued...

• worked to regulate the railroads and other
  industries
• sought the GOP presidential nomination in 1908
  and 1912
• opposed the Treaty of Versailles.
• Democracy is based upon knowledge
• Governor of Wisconsin

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Theodore Roosevelt Pres
ident 1901-1909
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Northern Securities Case

• Railroad monopoly in NW
• Controlled by J.P. Morgan
• Roosevelt earned the nickname trustbuster

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Square Deal

• Coal Miners Strike 1902 higher wages shorter
  hours
• Roosevelt intervenes to push negotiations

Seal of United Mine Workers
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Progressive Era

• Power Point Presentation produced by Mr.
  Houstons US History Class at Harwich High School
  for test review purposes
• Visit American History Class Website for
  additional information http//www.harwich
  .edu/depts /history/amr.htm
• Resources Groliers Encylopaedia, U Virginia
  Map Collection, Internet Sites, NARA, LOC

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Election of 1904

• Candidates Electoral Vote Popular
  Vote
• Theodore Roosevelt- Republican 336
  7,628,834(56.4)
• Alton B. Parker- Democratic 140
  5,084,401(37.6)
• Eugene V. Debs- Socialist
  460,000(3.0)

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Election 1904

• Nominations Republicans met in Chicago, June
  21-23, 1904, and chose Roosevelt unanimously.
  Democrats met in St. Louis, July 6-9, 1904, and
  nominated Parker on the first ballot.
• Remarks Roosevelt received a larger percentage
  of the popular vote than any previous President
  since tabulation of the vote had begun in 1824.

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Roosevelts Second Term

• Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
• Meat Inspection Act, 1906
• Hepburn Act, 1906
• Conservation Initiatives
• Panic of 1907

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William William How
ard Taft President 1909-1913
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William Jennings Bryan, Democratic Candidate, 1908
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1908 Election

• Theodore Roosevelt chose to retire in 1908.
  William Taft elected president in 1908.
• William Taft, Republican 51.6 percent
• William J. Bryan, Democrat 43.0 percent
• Eugene Debs, Socialist 2.8 percent

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Tafts Administration

• Republican Party divided
• Payne-Adrich Tariff, 1909
• Speaker Uncle Joe Cannon
• Mann-Elkins Act, 1910, RR, TT
• Pinchot-Ballinger Dispute, 1910
• US Steel Anti-Trust Case, 1911

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Progressive Era

• Power Point Presentation produced by Mr.
  Houstons US History Class at Harwich High School
  for test review purposes.
• Visit American History Class Website for
  additional information http//www.harwich
  .edu/depts /history/amr.htm
• Resources Groliers Encylopaedia, U Virginia
  Map Collection, Internet Sites, NARA, LOC

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Robert LaFollette,Progressiveleader
fromWisconsinFrom Groliers, Bettmann Archive
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Anti-Roosevelt Political Cartoon, 1912, from
Groliers
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Woodrow
Wilson President
1913-1921
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NEW FREEDOM

• During the 1912 Election, Woodrow Wilson came up
  with the program called New Freedom.
• This program practiced Laissez- faire. He
  said that government is best which governs
  least.
• He thought about the lives of the future. Thus
  he wanted free competition by getting rid of
  monopolies.

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Eugene Debs, Socialist Party
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Election of 1912

• Wilson-Democrat 42 Popular vote and 435
  Electoral vote.
• T. Roosevelt- Progressive 27.5 Pop. Vote and 88
  Electoral Votes.
• Taft-Republican 23 Pop. Vote and 8 Electoral
  votes.
• Minor candidates had 7.5 and 0 electoral votes .
• Wilson was the winner of this election.

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Progressive Era

• Power Point Presentation produced by Mr.
  Houstons US History Class at Harwich High School
  for test review purposes
• Visit American History Class Website for
  additional information http//www.harwich
  .edu/depts /history/amr.htm
• Resources Groliers Encylopaedia, U Virginia
  Map Collection, Internet Sites, NARA, LOC

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Underwood Tariff, 1914

• Established Income Tax
• 1 up to 20,000
• 7 for incomes above 500,000
• Only 1 of population paid
• Cut tariff rate by the largest percentage in
  decades

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Federal Trade Commission, FTC

• Power to issue cease and desist orders against
  unfair trade practices
• protect public, consumers

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Man Controlling Trade by M. Lantz at FTC
Building, DC
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Progressive Amendments

• 16th Income Tax
• 17th Direct Election of Senators
• 18th Prohibition
• 19th Suffrage for Women