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Progressive Era
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Middle class activists – urban, college educated, mostly white
Leaders of smaller, issue based reform movements
Used the power of the national, state and local government to solve society’s problems
Wanted to make government larger and responsible for taking care of more people
Tried to get more laws, regulations and amendments passed to bring change in American society.
Who were the Progressives?
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Muckrakers were a group of crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption.
Publishers competed to see who could expose the most corruption
Who were the Muckrakers?
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Crammed into tenement houses with unsanitary conditions
Streets were filled with garbage and filth
Disease, fire and crime
Problem: Living Conditions in Cities
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Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives
Social Gospel – churches take on community problems to help the poor
Salvation Army and YMCA –practical aid and religious counseling
Jane Addams starts Settlement Houses
Living Conditions in Cities: Solution
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Long hours, little pay, dangerous conditions
Health problems
Cycle of poverty –wages were needed to help provide for the family
Problem: Child Labor
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Child Labor Laws
Age limits and maximum hours
Public Education
Mandatory attendance laws
Skilled jobs preparation
Helps immigrants assimilate
Child Labor: Solution
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Uncovered machines, long hours, little pay
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Problem: Work Place Safety
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Building and safety codes
Workers compensation
Union victories
Minimum wage
Work Place Safety: Solution
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Breakdown of families
Lost wages, physical abuse and crime
Bad for business
Workers don’t perform and often get hurt
Problem: Alcohol Abuse
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Temperance Movement Moderation and elimination of
alcohol from society
Laws to limit availability
Women lead the movement Victims of abuse
The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
Moral voice in society
Prohibition 18th Amendment to the
Constitution – makes production, sale and distribution of alcohol illegal
Alcohol Abuse: Solution
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Industries overuse the land Ranching, logging,
bonanza wheat farming-soil depletion
Extracting natural resources Mining, oil drilling
Pollution Coal dust - air
Waste disposal -water
Problem: Destroying the Environment
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Conservation movement
Teddy! And John Muir
National parks
Regulations
Destroying the Environment: Solution
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Ingredients?!?
Medicines
Unclean Food
Unsanitary Conditions
Problem: Unsafe Products
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Meatpacking – Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Ingredients lists, and warning labels
Unsafe Products: Solution
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Political Machines
Bribery, favoritism
Buying Elections
Inefficient/wasteful
Patronage
Problem: Corruption in Government
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Taylorism – efficiency (like the assembly line)
Departments to mange specific issues
Robert La Follett – primaries for candidates
Citizen participation
Recalls, referendums, initiatives, secret ballot
Pendleton Act
Jobs given to candidates based on merit not favors
17th Amendment to the Constitution – direct election of senators
Corruption in Government: Solution
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Many progressive women saw themselves as "social housekeepers” – clean up society
Women’s Suffrage
1848 – Seneca Falls
State by state basis
Problem: Not Everyone Can Vote
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Susan B. Anthony
Alice Paul – use aggressive tactics to gain public attention and support
Protests and hunger strikes
19th Amendment to the Constitution – can not be denied the right to vote based on gender
Not Everyone Can Vote: Solution
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Monopolies
No competition
Unequal distribution of wealth
“Gilded Age”
Problem: Unchecked Big Business
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act Illegal to form monopolies
Break them up!
Teddy, Taft and Wilson Square Deal – every American
should have an equal opportunity Trust Busting
Socialism Government regulates the
economy – owns the means of production
Eugene Debs
16th Amendment to the Constitution – income tax Progressive income tax higher
tax brackets for wealthier people
Unchecked Big Business: Solution
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Segregation
Plessey v. Ferguson
Hate crimes
Lynching
Discrimination
Jim Crow
Nativism and xenophobia
Problem: Discrimination and Racism
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Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute - Blacks can
gain respect as they work their way up in society Vocational college
W.E.B. Dubois NAACP – challenge segregation
laws in courts, help to vote
Ida B. Wells Writer and speaker -
challenging and decrying lynching
Discrimination and Racism: Solution
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Roosevelt and the Rough Riders Roosevelt captured
national attention by advocating war with Spain in 1898. His volunteer cavalry brigade, the Rough Riders, won public acclaim for its role in the battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba.
Roosevelt returned a hero and was soon elected governor of NY and later McKinley’s vice-president.
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Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
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Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
When President William McKinley was assassinated six months into his second term, Theodore Roosevelt became the nation’s 26th
president
He insisted on and worked for a “square deal” or fair opportunity for all Americans
McKinley was assassinated by an
anarchist in Buffalo in September of 1901
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The Modern President
When Roosevelt was thrust into the presidency in 1901, he became the youngest president ever at age 42.
He quickly established himself as a modern president who could influence the media and shape legislation.
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Trust-Busting
By 1900, trusts – legal bodies created to hold stock in many companies –controlled 80% of U.S. industries.
Roosevelt filed 44 antitrust suits under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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1902 Coal Strike
In 1902, 140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike for increased wages, a 9-hour work day, and the right to unionize. Mine owners refused to bargain.
Roosevelt called in both sides and settled the dispute. Thereafter, when a strike threatened public welfare, the federal government was expected to step in and help.
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“The Jungle” Leads to Food Regulation
After reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Roosevelt pushed for passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
The act mandated cleaner conditions for meatpacking plants.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
In response to unsubstantiated claims and unwholesome products, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. The Act halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling.
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Roosevelt and the Environment
Before Roosevelt’s presidency, the federal government paid very little attention to the nation’s natural resources. Roosevelt made conservation a primary concern of his administration.
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Roosevelt’s Environmental Accomplishments
Roosevelt set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves, 1.5 million acres of water-power sites, 50 wildlife sanctuaries, and several national parks.
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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
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Roosevelt and Civil Rights
Roosevelt failed to support Civil Rights for African Americans. He did, however, support a few individuals such as Booker T. Washington, whofounded the Tuskegee Institute to provide a technical education for African Americans.
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NAACP Formed to Promote Rights In 1909 a number of African
Americans and prominent white reformers formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP had 6,000 members by 1914.
The goal of the organization was full equality among the races through the court system, a position supported by W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Progressivism under President Taft
Republican William Howard Taft easily defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1908 presidential election.
Among his accomplishments, Taft “busted” 90 trusts during his four years in office – more than Theodore Roosevelt during his eight years in office.
Taft, right, was Roosevelt’s War Secretary
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Taft Loses Power Taft was not popular with
the American public or reform-minded Republicans. He called the Presidency, the “lonesomest” job in the world.” By 1910, Democrats had regained control of the House of Representatives.
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1912 Election
Republicans split in 1912 between Taft and Roosevelt (who returned after a safari to Africa).
Convention delegates nominated Taft and discontented Republicans formed a third party, the Progressive Party (nicknamed the Bull Moose Party), and nominated Roosevelt.
The Democrats put forward a reform-minded New Jersey governor, Woodrow Wilson.
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Wilson’s New Freedom
With a strong mandate from the American people, Wilson moved to enact his program, the “New Freedom.”
He planned his attack on what he called the triple wall of privilege: trusts, tariffs, and high finance.
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act In 1914 Congress enacted
the Clayton Anti-Trust Act that strengthened the Sherman Act.
It had an anti-trust provision that prevented companies from acquiring stock from another company and supported workers’ unions.
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Federal Trade Commission Formed
The FTC was formed in 1914 to serve as a “watchdog” agency to end unfair business practices. The FTC protects consumers from business fraud.
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Federal Income Tax Arrives
Wilson worked hard to lower tariffs, however, the lost revenue had to be made up and was when the 16th
Amendment instituted a graduated federal income tax.
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Women Win Suffrage
Native-born, educated, middle-class women grew more and more impatient. Through local, state, and national organization, as well as vigorous protests, women finally realized their dream in 1920.
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Limits of Progressivism
While the Progressive era was responsible for many important reforms, it failed to make gains for African Americans. Like Roosevelt and Taft, Wilson retreated on Civil Rights when he entered office.
The KKK reached a membership
of 4.5 million in the 1920s