What were the goals of the Progressives and

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What were the goals of the Progressives and
what were their accomplishments?
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M

1. Rid problems created by industrialization

3 Goals- government controlled by
people government regulation of economy
eliminate social injustice
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M

• Election and Political reform meant govt
• controlled by the people

Local Commission and Council Manager State In
itiative (people propose law) Referendum (vote on
initiative) Recall (election re-do, vote can take
officials out of office) Elections Primary
Elections Secret Ballot 17th Amendment (direct
election of U.S. Senators)
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M
F. Filth and corruption in business exposed by
muckraking literature
Upton Sinclairs, The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M
F. Filth and corruption in business exposed by
muckraking literature
Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities
What future does Steffens see as working???
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M
F. Filth and corruption in business exposed by
muckraking literature
Ida Tarbell, History of Standard Oil
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M

• Organizations (labor unions) continued to call
• for better working conditions, pay, and
  security

American Federation of Labor (Samuel
Gompers) American Railway Union (Eugene Debs)
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Workers
Management
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M
R. Reform makes it to the White House
Teddy Roosevelt- 1st Progressive
President (1901-1909) Policy (Square
Deal) Conservation Trustbusting
Steward of public
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TR views the Presidency as a Bully Pulpit
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TR and Conservation
established National Park Service
"There can be nothing in the world more beautiful
than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant
sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the
Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the
Three Tetons and our people should see to it
that they are preserved for their children and
their children's children forever, with their
majestic beauty all unmarred. Theodore Roosevelt
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TR the Trustbuster
U.S. Supreme Court dissolved the Northern
Securities Company (monopoly of western railroads)
Jack and the Wall Street Giants
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TR the Trustbuster
What personal characteristics are associated with
TR?
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TR Steward of Public
Anthracite Coal Strike (1902)- United Mine
Workers strike for higher wages, 8hr. day, and
recognition of union. Owners shut down mines,
evicted strikers.
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Who is credited with the death of the Coal
Strike?
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M
R. Reform makes it to the White House
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)- Viewed as a
less aggressive reformer than TR, yet just as
successful trustbuster.
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TR frustrated with Tafts conservative
policies ran as a 3rd Party (Bull
Moose) Progressive candidate.
New Nationalism- The betterment we seek must be
accomplished mainly through the National
Government. TR
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Republican vote split, resulting in Democratic
victory in 1912
Woodrow Wilson
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M
R. Reform makes it to the White House
Woodrow Wilson (New Freedom) (1913-1921)
If America is not to have free enterprise then
she can have freedom of no sort whatever.
Wilson
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M
R. Reform makes it to the White House
Restore Competition (with checks) Clayton
Antitrust Act (1914)- Expand Sherman Antitrust
Act outlaws price-fixing, exempts unions from
Sherman Act Federal Trade Commission (FTC)-
watch-dog agency, requires reports from
corporations to regulate big business Federal
Reserve System- central banking system, basis
for modern branch banking system
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Progressives R-E-F-O-R-M
M. Mothers Too.
Middle Class women involved in the reforms
(Prohibition).
Carrie Nation
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Renewed call for womens suffrage. (Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony)
THINK How might Victorian ideas about women
help support the call for womens suffrage?
City housekeeping has failed partly because
women, the traditional housekeepers, have not
been consulted. Jane Addams
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Wyoming, 1st state to allow women vote (1869)
The Awakening, 1915
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National Womens Suffrage Association calls for
national amendment.
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Pressure put on Wilson to support womens
suffrage.
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What is the message?
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What role in the campaign for womens suffrage
can you attribute to WWI?
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(1920) 19th Amendment ratified, granting women
right to vote