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Progressive Agendas

Progressive Agendas. Section 5.3. Today’s Agenda. 5.3 Slide Show Presentations Louis Brandeis (Mueller v. Oregon) Jane Addams Roberta LaFollette Nellie Bly Homework Quiz on Progressivism Tuesday. How can reform be accomplished?. Was America a democracy in 1900? Who voted?

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Progressive Agendas

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  1. Progressive Agendas Section 5.3

  2. Today’s Agenda • 5.3 Slide Show • Presentations • Louis Brandeis (Mueller v. Oregon) • Jane Addams • Roberta LaFollette • Nellie Bly • Homework • Quiz on Progressivism Tuesday

  3. How can reform be accomplished? • Was America a democracy in 1900? • Who voted? • Who chooses our leaders? • Is America 1 man one vote?

  4. Women in Progressive Movement

  5. Jane Addams Presentation

  6. Who was Jane Addams? • Progressive reformer • Saint Jane • Moved by 3 children who had all been injured while home alone (while parents worked) • Hull House • A settlement house • A community center in immigrant Chicago slum • Taught English, held political discussions, celebrated diverse cultures, day nursery, night school • 2 thousand visitors per day

  7. Jane Addams

  8. How did Galveston become a model of efficiency? • Hurricane destroyed city (1900) • State replaced governing power from large city-council with 5 commissioners • Most were business leaders (not politicians) • City quickly recovered • Served as model on how to build efficient government • Helped to eliminate ward boss power

  9. La Follette Presentation

  10. Who was “Fighting Bob” La Follette? • Reform Governor of Wisconsin • Initiated series of reforms that make state more democratic • Direct primary • voters, not bosses, select candidates • Initiative • citizens, not bosses, introduce bills to legislature • Referendum • citizens vote for or against proposed laws • Recall • citizens vote to fire elected official

  11. What is the Seventeenth Amendment and how did it democratize America? • Calls for direct election of senators (1913) • Senators had been chosen from state legislature • Controlled by political machines • Senators awarded supporters with fat contracts

  12. Was the right to vote expanded during the Progressive era? • Women • Had limited right to vote in 19 states • Could not vote for president • Suffragettes • Grew from 13 to 75 thousand (1893-1910) • 19th Amendment (1920) gave full voting rights • African Americans • Jim Crow laws passed after 1890 reduced voting rights • Poll taxes, literacy tests

  13. Suffrage

  14. How did states begin to regulate big business? • Wisconsin • RR commission • Power to regulate rates • Prevented unfair competition • Maryland • Law (1902) required employers to buy workers’ compensation insurance • Oregon (1903) • Prohibited women working more than 10 hours

  15. Protecting Workers

  16. Louis Brandeis Presentation

  17. Describe Mueller v. Oregon. • Supreme court case • Mueller challenged state of Oregon’s right to regulate his business • Louis Brandeis argued for Oregon • Brandeis brief • Based primarily on sociological data • economic and social statistics, photographs, expert opinions • Very little precedent • Said that long hours damaged health of women and therefore damaged welfare of America

  18. Describe Mueller v. Oregon. • Supreme Court unanimous for Oregon • Women need special protection • 1st case which used sociology in argument • States can regulate business for public good

  19. Who was John Dewey • Progressive educator • “Learn be doing.” • Said school should be Laboratories of Democracy • Children need to be taught how to be a good citizen • Movement helped end child labor • Illiteracy • 1870 = 20% • 1920 = 6 %

  20. Nelly Bly Presentation

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