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PROGRESSIVISM
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Progressive Movement
• Aimed to return control of the gov. to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices of American life. **
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Promoting Moral Improvement• Prohibition: Banning of
alcohol• Why? **
– Immigrants / poor needed to improve their lives’
– Domestic violence, rape, murder, child abuse, suicide, divorce
– Spearheaded by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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Economic Reform
• Big business received large amounts of $$ from government official and politcians.
• Muckrakers: ** journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business
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Protecting Working Children
• Children were hired because of their size and were paid less.**
• Progressives were able to get laws past in nearly every state to ban child labor
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Limit Working Hours
• Supreme Court limited working hours of women to 10 h/d
• Beginning of businesses paying benefits to families who lost a loved one on the job.
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Reforming Elections
• Initiative: bill originated by the people (not lawmakers)
• Referendum: vote on an initiative
• Recall: Process of removing an elected official.
• 17th Amendment: direct election of U.S. Senators. **
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Women and Reform
• Susan B. Anthony: lead the suffrage movement.
• Three approaches to gain suffrage:**– Pressure state gov.– The courts– A constitutional
amendment.
• 19th Amendment:** Women the right to vote (1920)
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Roosevelt’s Square Deal**
• Trustbusting– Trusts: legal bodies
created to hold stock in many companies.
• Regulating Foods and Drugs– Labels on all
packaged foods and drugs.
• Conversation and Natural Resources