The Progressive Movement

1. Chapter 8 The Progressive Movement

2. Section 1The Roots of Progressivism

3. The Rise of Progressivism • Who were the Progressives? • Urban • Middle-class Americans • Journalists • Social workers • Educators • Politicians • Clergymen

4. The Rise of Progressivism • The Muckrakers • Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil • Jacob Riis wrote “How the Other Half Lives” • Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle”

5. Reforming Government • Making Government Efficient • A commission plan • A council-manager system

7. Reforming Government • Democratic Reforms • La Follette’s Laboratory of Democracy • Robert M. La Follette • Direct primary • Initiative • Referendum • Recall

8. Reforming Government • Democratic Reforms • Direct Election of Senators • 17th amendment

9. Suffrage • Early Problems • Seneca Falls, New York- 1848 • Susan B. Anthony • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11. Suffrage • Early Problems • 14th amendment • 15th amendment

14. Suffrage • Building Support • NAWSA • Alice Paul • Carrie Chapman Catt • 19th amendment

16. Reforming Society • Child Labor • John Spargo wrote “The Bitter Cry of the Children” • 60 cents for 10 hours of work in the coal mine

18. Reforming Society • Health and Safety Codes • Triangle Shirtwaist Company

20. Reforming Society • The Prohibition Movement • Temperance movement • WCTU • Prohibition

24. Reforming Society • Progressives vs. Big Business • Big businesses need regulation • Interstate Commerce Commission

25. Section 2Roosevelt and Taft

26. Roosevelt Revives the Presidency • Roosevelt Takes on the Trusts • Square Deal • Roosevelt becomes known as a trustbuster and takes on J.P. Morgan

28. Roosevelt Revives the Presidency • The Coal Strike of 1902 • United Mine Workers go on strike • arbitration

30. Roosevelt Revives the Presidency • Regulating Big Business • Department of Commerce and Labor • Hepburn Act

31. Roosevelt Revives the Presidency • Consumer Protection • Checking out cures • Upton Sinclair writes “The Jungle” • Meat Inspection Act • Pure Food and Drug Act • USDA

32. Conservation • Western Land Development • Gifford Pinchot • Roosevelt’s Legacy

33. Taft’s Reforms • The Payne-Aldrich Tariff • Ballinger vs. Pinchot • Ballinger replaces James Garfield as Secretary of the Interior. • Pinchot is fired for insubordination.

35. Taft’s Reforms • Taft’s Achievements • Children’s bureau • Trustbuster

37. Section 3“The Wilson Years”

38. The Election of 1912 • Pick the Candidates • Progressive party • Nicknamed the Bull Moose Party

39. The Election of 1912 • Wilson vs. Roosevelt • New Nationalism • New Freedom

42. Wilson’s Reforms • Reforming Tariffs • Wilson appears before Congress (1st President to do so since John Adams). • Wilson lowers tariffs.

43. Wilson’s Reforms • Reforming the Banks • Federal Reserve Act

44. Wilson’s Reforms • Antitrust Action • Federal trade commission • Clayton Antitrust Act

45. Wilson’s Reforms • Regulating Business • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act • Prohibits employment of children under the age of 14 • But Congress declares it unconstitutional.

46. Progressivism’s Legacy and Limits • A New Kind of Government

47. Progressivism’s Legacy and Limits • The Limits of Progressivism • W.E.B. Dubois met at the Niagara Movement in 1905. • The 1st attempt at civil rights • NAACP-1909