Progressive LegislationProgressive Legislation

Chapter 11, Section 2Chapter 11, Section 2

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• 10-story Asch building (10-story Asch building (NYCNYC))

• 600 workers600 workers

• 88thth floor fire floor fire

• Frances Perkins watches Frances Perkins watches from streetfrom street

Reaction• Call for Social Welfare Call for Social Welfare

ProgramsPrograms• Municipal levelMunicipal level

• Robert La FolletteRobert La Follette

• Workplace reformsWorkplace reforms

An Expanded Role for GovernmentAn Expanded Role for Government

• Progressives sought more social welfare programs to help ensure a minimum standard of living.

An Expanded Role for GovernmentAn Expanded Role for Government

• Many of the earliest Progressive reforms were made at the municipal, or city, level.

• Some municipal reformers worked for home rule, a system that gives cities a limited degree of self-rule.

Fighting Bob!Fighting political corruption with:• Referendum – Removes a law• Recall – Remove an official• Direct Primaries• Direct Election of Senators –

17th Amendment• Initiative – Citizens can

propose laws

• All of these measures gave citizens more power.

California Recall 2003California Recall 2003

TR’s“Bully pulpit”TR’s“Bully pulpit”• 1902 Coal Strike1902 Coal Strike

– With winter looming TR threatens to send With winter looming TR threatens to send in the troops.in the troops.

• Square DealSquare Deal

• Sherman Antitrust Act – Trust BUSTA!Sherman Antitrust Act – Trust BUSTA!

• Pure Food and Drug ActPure Food and Drug Act

• Meat Inspection ActMeat Inspection Act

An Expanded Role for GovernmentAn Expanded Role for Government

• Municipal reformers opposed the influence of political bosses.

An Expanded Role for GovernmentAn Expanded Role for Government

• Reformers made efforts to take over city utilities such as water, gas, and electricity.

An Expanded Role for GovernmentAn Expanded Role for Government

• Some reform mayors led movements for city-supported welfare services such as public baths, parks, work-relief programs, playgrounds, kindergartens, and lodging houses for the homeless.

Outlawed monopolies and practices that restrained trade, such as price fixing.

Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890

Created to plan and develop irrigation projects.National Reclamation Act, 1902

Created to manage the nation’s water and timber resources.

United States Forest Service, 1905

Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroad rates.

Hepburn Act, 1906

Banned interstate shipping of impure food and deliberate mislabeling of food and drugs.

Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906

Required federal inspection of meat processing to ensure sanitary conditions.

Meat Inspection Act, 1906

Cabinet department created to promote the welfare and employment of working people.

Department of Labor, 1913

Gave Congress the power to levy an income tax.

16th Amendment, 1913

Provided for the direct election of senators.17th Amendment, 1913

Created Federal Reserve System of government banks to supervise private banks and provide a flexible money supply.

Federal Reserve Act, 1913

Created to administer the nation’s parks.National Park Service, 1916

Prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor. (Repealed in 1933)

18th Amendment, 1919

Granted women full suffrage.19th Amendment, 1920

Created within the Department of Labor to improve the status of working women.

Women’s Bureau, 1920