The Progressive Era1890-1920

The Progressive Era 1890-1920Roosevelt and Progressivism

Terms and Names:

1. progressivism 5. referendum

2. muckrakers 6. recall

3. direct primary 7. Sherman Antitrust Act

4. initiative 8. Theodore Roosevelt

Bell work #1On page xxx of your ISN, match the headline with the correct type of journalism

I. What was progressivism? And how did it rise?

A. Progressivism was a reform movement that focused on a multitude of urban problems and had three main goals:

1. reform government and expand democracy

2. promote social welfare

3. create economic reform

B. Muckrakers began to investigate and write about a variety of society’s ills in the hopes of inspiring others to solve these problems

II. How was government reformed? And how did democracy expand?

A. In order to stop patronage-the practice of giving away government jobs and contracts for political support- Congress passed the Pendleton Civil Service Act

B. Several changes to politics gave citizens more control over their government:

1. Direct primaries gave voters, rather than party conventions, the power to choose candidates to run for political office.

2. Initiatives allowed voters to propose laws directly

3. Referendums submit proposed laws to the vote of the people

4. Recalls allowed the people to vote an official out of office

Bell Work #2On page 206 of your ISN, answer the following

question: What is the artist’s thesis or opinion about

alcohol? Provide evidence to support your response.

III. Who promoted social welfare?

A. Jane Addams provided services to the poor, including assistance with unemployment

B. Florence Kelley pushed for minimum wage laws and limits on women’s working hours

C. Prohibitionists fought to stop alcohol from ruining people’s lives

III. Who promoted social welfare?

A. Jane Addams provided services to the poor, including assistance with unemployment

B. Florence Kelley pushed for minimum wage laws and limits on women’s working hours

C. Prohibitionists fought to stop alcohol from ruining people’s lives

Bell Work #3

On page xxx of your ISN, answer the following question: Why were monopolies bad/harmful to the economy? Think about the game Monopoly, how do you win, and why would that not be helpful to real life?

IV. How was the economic reform created?

A. This goal focused on limiting the power of big business and regulating its activities

1. Sherman Antitrust Act made it illegal for corporations to control an industry by forming trusts

V. Who was Theodore Roosevelt? And what was the Square Deal?

A. When President McKinley was assassinated in 1901, 42 year old Roosevelt became the first progressive president

B. He saw government as an “umpire” whose job it was to ensure fairness or a

“Square Deal” for workers, consumers and big business

1. He was the first to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act

Bell Work #4

On page xxx of your ISN, explain the following quote:

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

VI. What progressive reforms did Roosevelt lead?

A. After reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Roosevelt reformed the meat packing industry

1. the Meat Inspection Act

2. the Pure Food and Drug Act

B. However, he did nothing to address the segregation, discrimination and violence being experienced by African Americans

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VII. What was conservation?

A. Conservation was controlling how America’s natural resources are to be used.

B. Roosevelt worked to preserve more than 200 million acres of public lands, such as Florida’s Pelican Island, California’s Yosemite Valley, and Arizona’s Grand Canyon

The Progressive Era 1890-1920Taft and Wilson as Progressives

Terms and Names:

1. William Howard Taft

2. Sixteenth Amendment

3. Seventeenth Amendment

4. Clayton Antitrust Act

5. Federal Reserve Act

Bell Work #5

On page xxx of your ISN, answer the following question: How does the Government pay for federal highways, the US military and federal prisons?

I. Who was Taft and why was he considered progressive? A. William Howard Taft, a republican,

was Theodore Roosevelt’s hand picked successor.

B. He aggressively pursued progressive reforms

1. He filed twice as many antitrust lawsuits as Roosevelt (Taft gets little credit because he allied himself with conservative Republicans instead of progressive Republicans)

2. He helped to pass the 16th

and 17th Amendments

II. What were the first two progressive amendments?

A. 16th Amendment(1913) allows the government to collect income taxes from individual citizens

B. 17th Amendment(1913) gave citizens the power to directly elect senators to Congress

Bell Work # 6On page xxx of your ISN, answer the following

question: As a consumer, what interaction do you have

with the American banking system?

III. Who won the election of 1912?

A. Taft lost the election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson because Republicans were split between conservatives and progressives

IV. What happened during the Wilson presidency?

A. Wilson, a Democrat, was also a progressive president

1. He passed the Clayton Antitrust Act. It supported labor in three ways:

a. labor unions and farm organizations are allowed to merge and expand

b. courts are not allowed to force workers to end strikes

c. legalized strikes, picketing and boycotts

2. He also passed the Federal Reserve Act which improved the nation’s monetary and banking system

V. What did the Eighteenth Amendment state?

A. Hoping to reduce poverty, progressive reformers make it illegal to manufacture, sell or consume alcohol in 1919

The Progressive Era 1890-1920Women Win New Rights

Terms and Names:

1. Susan B. Anthony

2. Carrie Chapman Catt

3. Nineteenth Amendment

Bell Work # 7On page xxx of your ISN, explain what is going

on in this political cartoon.

I. What were some of the new roles for women?

A. As domesticity became less of a chore for middle class women, they began to look for new roles outside of the home

1. some took on jobs as operators, clerks and typists in offices and factories

2. others attended

college and went into

teaching and nursing

Switch Board Operators

II. Who were the women progressives and how were they progressive?

A. Middle-class, college-educated women focused their reform efforts on helping others

1. Jane Addams founded Hull House

2. Florence Kelley promoted better working conditions in factories and stores 3. Carry Nation helped to get the 18th Amendment passed

Bell Work #8

On page xxx of your ISN, explain why a person would believe that this would be the outcome of women voting?

“If women could vote, they’d divorce their husbands. They’d leave their children and maybe turn criminal. They’d hide ballots up their sleeves and commit voter fraud.” -Oklahoma 1920

III. How did women achieve suffrage?

A. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) with Susan B. Anthony as its president led the fight to gain women the right to vote.

B. NAWSA focused on getting the right to vote in individual states at first. This resulted in little success.

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IV. What was the Nineteenth Amendment and how was it finally passed?

A. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of NAWSA, led the final fight for women’s suffrage. She argued that if women could fill all of the jobs that men held before going off

to war “why couldn’t they vote?”

B. After individual successes in the western states and with the U.S.’s entry into WWI, women were given full voting rights in 1920

Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage

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