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While I take Attendance

Explore the Progressive Movement in America, focusing on social reforms like women's suffrage and child labor laws, moral changes like prohibition, and political changes such as direct primary elections and the creation of the FTC. Learn how these reforms shaped modern-day society.

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While I take Attendance

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  1. While I take Attendance • Go to my classroom website and download your 5.4 Notes. • We will fill these in together during class.

  2. Progressive Era Unit 5 Lecture

  3. Progressivism • Progressive Movement: the middle-class workers (writers, scholars, teachers) sought to fix certain problems in America through reform. • Four Areas: Social, Moral, Economic, and Government

  4. Social • Child Labor • Improve Life For the Lower Class • Creation of the YMCA • Woman Suffrage • Women worked mostly industrial jobs or agricultural jobs(in the South) • Women started attending college • Marriage wasn’t the only choice for women anymore • Right to Vote • Lobbied State Legislatures • Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho • Supreme Court ruling on the 14th Amendment • Constitutional Amendment – 19th Amendment

  5. Moral • 18th Amendment • Prohibition – forbidding the sell or production of alcohol

  6. Economic • Socialism • Labor unions • Progressive Reforms to make factories safer • Scientific Management – simpler tasks – Assembly Line • 16th Amendment – Income tax to generate money for government programs

  7. Government • Fair Elections • Secret Ballot (Australian Ballot) • Voting • Initiative – a bill originated by the people instead of legislature • Referendum – a vote by the people on an Initiative • Recall – a way to remove elected officials from office • Direct Primary – the people decide who runs for office based on a primary vote (ex. Presidential Races) • Direct Election of Senators – 17th Amendment

  8. Political Changes • Direct Primary • Recall • Initiative • Referendum

  9. amendments • 16th Amendment • Income Tax is legal • 17th Amendment • Direct Election of Senators • 18th Amendment • Alcohol is Illegal • 19th Amendment • Women’s Suffrage

  10. Federal trade commission (FTC) • Created by Woodrow Wilson • Groundwork laid by Theodore Roosevelt • Responsible for regulating businesses (corporations) on the stock market. • Prevent corporations from engaging in unfair and deceptive tactics (Netflix and Walmart) • Keeping legal and accurate business records (Enron)

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