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Progressive Era

Progressive Era . 1876-1920. Gilded Age. Greed and Political Corruption Concerns over the power of the rich Worries about corruption Spoils System Patronage. Attempts to reform the Spoils System . Rutherford B. Hayes 1 st to try reform James Garfield Merit

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Progressive Era

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  1. Progressive Era 1876-1920

  2. Gilded Age • Greed and Political Corruption • Concerns over the power of the rich • Worries about corruption • Spoils System • Patronage

  3. Attempts to reform the Spoils System • Rutherford B. Hayes 1st to try reform • James Garfield • Merit • Assassination of Garfield by Charles J. Guiteau 1881 • 1883 Pendleton Act = Civil Service

  4. Big Business • Regulation of Business and Railroads • Interstate Commerce Act (Commission) • Pools and Rebates • 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act

  5. Corruption in the City • Political Bosses • Boss Tweed • $100 million • Thomas Nast • Exposed Tweed • To Spain and back

  6. Muckrakers • Jacob Riis • Photos of Slums • Ida Tarbell • Targeted Big Business • Standard Oil • Upton Sinclair • The Jungle

  7. Progressives • Not Single Group • No Single Goal • Public Interest • John Dewey • Education • Democratic Values

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  9. Progressive Political Reform

  10. Reforms • Robert La Follette • Wisconsin Idea • Ex. Lowered railroad rates • Lower Tariffs • Help Consumers • Graduated Income Tax • 16th Amendment • Direct Election of Senators • 17th Amendment

  11. Theodore Roosevelt • Not against trusts • Good trusts v. Bad trusts • Brought suits against • Northern Securities Company (railroad) • Standard Oil • American Tobacco Company • Trustbuster • Pennsylvania Coal Miners Strike • 1st President to side with Labor

  12. Square Deal • Election of 1904 • Equal Opportunity to Succeed • Businesses • 1906 Railroad rates set by ICC • Consumers • The Jungle • Pure Food and Drug Act • List of Ingredients • End False Advertising • Conservation • National Parks

  13. William Howard Taft • Roosevelt did not run for reelection • Supported Taft • Taft as President • Broke up more trusts • Supported shorter work day • Trouble with progressives • Supported Higher Tariffs • Fired a Forest Service Official

  14. Election of 1912 • Roosevelt runs against Taft • Republicans supported Taft • Progressive Rep. stormed out • Set up new party called Bull Moose Party • Nominated Roosevelt to run • Democrats nominate Woodrow Wilson • Republican candidates got more votes • But Taft and Roosevelt split vote • Wilson wins the election

  15. Woodrow Wilson • New Freedom • Break up trusts into smaller comp. • Lower Tariffs • Federal Reserve Act • System of Federal Banks • Federal Trade Commission • Clayton Antitrust Act • More against Trusts • Can’t be used against Unions

  16. Woman Suffrage Movement • 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton set up National Woman Suffrage Association • Late 1800’s women in some western states get suffrage • In the Early 1900’s Carrie Chapman Catt took over with a detailed plan • Suffragists • Alice Paul met with President Wilson • Paul and Rose Winslow started Picketing the White House

  17. Woman Suffrage Movement • Wilson finally agreed to support • Constitutional Amendment • 19th Amendment • Passed Congress in 1919 • Gets ¾ states ratification by 1920

  18. Women’s Right to Vote

  19. Crusade against Alcohol • Temperance Movement • Women opposed because: • Ruined families • Prevented political discussion by women • Bars wouldn’t admit women • WCTU • Frances Willard-President • Carrie Nation • Hatchet

  20. Prohibition • By 1917 Congress passed the Prohibition Amendment • 18th Amendment • Ratified by ¾ states in 1919 • Cannot: • Possess • Consume • Transport • Sell • Distribute

  21. Minorities during Progressive Era • Progressives did little to help • Jim Crow Laws • Segregation • Prejudice • Discrimination

  22. African Americans during Progressive Age • Lynching • Ida B. Wells • Proposed Boycotts • Booker T. Washington • Races live in Harmony • Tuskegee Institute • Learn a trade • WEB Dubois • Agreed with Washington • But need to fight discrimination • NAACP • Jane Adams and Lincoln Steffens

  23. Mexican Americans during the Progressive Age • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Gadsden Purchase • Famine forces Mexicans to US • Barrios • Mutualistas

  24. Asian Americans during the Progressive Era • Gold Rush and Railroads • Chinese Exclusion Act • Immigrants came from other Asian nations • Discrimination • Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan • California banned Asian immigrants from owning land

  25. Native Americans during Progressive Age • Dawes Act • Small Family Farms • Failure • Land not suitable • No tradition • Sold to speculators • Society of American Indians • Teach America about Natives • Mainstream Natives • Abolish Reservations • Opposed by most Natives

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