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Title: Progressivism Review


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Progressivism Review
2
Reform
  • Change for the better

3
Gilded Age
  • On the outside everything looked great, but
    underneath things were rotten

4
Tammany Hall
  • Political Machine in New York City

5
Rockefeller
  • Dominated the oil industry
  • Practiced horizontal integration

6
Carnegie
  • Pioneered vertical integration
  • Extremely wealthy by age 40
  • Donated 350 million by the time he died

7
Social Darwinism
  • Suggested that wealthy people had superior wisdom
    and were the fittest members of society

8
Gustavus Swift
  • Invented the refrigerated rail car

9
Upton Sinclair
  • Wrote The Jungle based on close observations of
    how meat packers lived

10
Trusts
  • Lower retail prices
  • Availability of items that were once luxuries
  • Development and use of new machinery

11
Vertical Integration
  • Controlling all aspects of an industry
  • Used by Carnegie

12
Progressives
  • Ida Tarbell- anti- Rockefeller and Standard oil
    company
  • Uptn Sinclair- author
  • Ida B. Wells- anti-lynching
  • Lester Ward- thought science should be used to
    improve the human condition

13
Political Reforms
  • Initiative
  • Recall
  • Referendum

14
Politicians
  • Could stay in power by doing favors for people

15
Immigrants
  • Settled in U.S. cities for JOBS

16
Positives of Cities
  • Jobs
  • Electricity
  • Indoor plumbing

17
Education
  • Laws were passed requiring children to attend
    school
  • Illiteracy rates declined

18
Immigrant Challenges
  • U.S. cities with-
  • Gambling
  • Robbery
  • Political Corruption

19
Problems of Cities
  • Waste disposal problems
  • Slum Housing
  • Crime

20
Monopolies
  • Attempted to control the market by eliminating
    competition

21
Progressive Reformers
  • Wanted to give voters more direct say in
    lawmaking

22
Robber Barons
  • Negative nickname given to men like Rockefeller
    and Carnegie

23
Captains of Industry
  • Positive nickname given to men like Rockefeller
    and Carnegie

24
New Immigrants
  • Wave that came over around 1900
  • Mainly from Italy, Greece, Russia, and other
    areas of Southern and Eastern Europe

25
New Immigrants
  • More likely to be
  • Illiterate
  • Poor
  • Catholic or non-Protestant

26
Theodore Roosevelt
  • Became famous as a Rough Rider on San Juan Hill
  • Western Rancher
  • Asthmatic
  • Became President when McKinley was assassinated

27
Roosevelts Accomplishments
  • Meat Inspection Act of 1906
  • Increased number of national parks
  • Arbitrated the United Mine Workers Strike

28
Woodrow Wilson
  • Due to the Republican split, won the election of
    1912 in an electoral landslide

29
Wilson
  • Allowed press conferences
  • Supported the Underwood Tariff reduction bill
  • Program was known as New Freedom

30
1912 Election
  • Woodrow Wilson- Democrat
  • William Howard Taft- Republican
  • Teddy Roosevelt- Progressive

31
W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Felt blacks should receive equality immediately

32
Federal Trade Commission
  • Established to stop unfair business practices
    among companies
  • Supported by Wilson

33
Underwood Tariff
  • Established to reduce the tariff
  • High tariffs had been protecting American business

34
Jane Addams
  • Wealthy woman that moved to Chicago and built
    Hull House to help the poor

35
Alcohol
  • Viewed as a cause of violence against women

36
17th Amendment
  • Direct election of senators

37
Carry Nation
  • Strongly against alcohol
  • Would scold and intimidate saloon patrons with a
    hatchet

38
Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Religious leader during the Progressive era
  • Thought Christians should better their
    communities by helping others

39
Robert La Follette
  • Wisconsin Governor responsible for a great deal
    of reform legislation

40
Accommodation
  • Idea that economic success for blacks was more
    important than racial equality

41
Mary Ritter Beard
  • Wrote about the contributions of women in history

42
Muckrakers
  • Writers whose articles attacked problems in the
    U.S.

43
19th amendment
  • Gave women the right to vote

44
Suffrage
  • The right to vote

45
Seneca Falls
  • Site of Womens Rights conference in 1848

46
Leon Czolgosz
  • Assassinated President McKinley

47
Immigrant
  • Person entering a country to live there

48
Margaret Sanger
  • Spoke to women about preventing pregnancy

49
Eugene V. Debs
  • Socialists candidate in 1912 presidential
    election

50
Urbanization
  • Growth of cities

51
Tenement Buildings
  • Crowded, run down apartments in slums

52
Tariff
  • Tax on imported goods

53
Nativism
  • Preference for native-born Americans over
    immigrants

54
Teddy Roosevelt
  • McKinleys vice-president, became the youngest
    president ever

55
Temperance Movement
  • Drive to restrict or prohibit use of alcohol

56
William Howard Taft
  • Republican president from 1909-1913

57
UMW- United Mine Workers
  • Called for a coal mine strike hoping for
    increased pay, less hours and union recognition
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