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PROGRESSIVE ERA REFORM

PROGRESSIVE ERA REFORM. Today is the last day to turn in your review for credit!!!!. Match the following. The goal was to break up monopolies and promote competition. Required applicants to pass exams for government jobs. Required Rail Roads to charge all customers the same rates.

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PROGRESSIVE ERA REFORM

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  1. PROGRESSIVE ERA REFORM

  2. Today is the last day to turn in your review for credit!!!!

  3. Match the following • The goal was to break up monopolies and promote competition. • Required applicants to pass exams for government jobs. • Required Rail Roads to charge all customers the same rates. • Purchase of Alaska. • Pendleton Civil Service Act. • Seward’s Folly • Interstate Commerce Act (Interstate Commerce Commission) • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  4. Warm Up: Use page 383 to answer the following in your notebook 1.In what sections of the U.S. did Populism thrive? 2. Where did Populists have their roots? 3.To what did these new reformers react? 4.How did industrialization cost some members of society?

  5. “Government should” 1. Be more accountable to its citizens 2. Protect workers & help the poor Progressive Beliefs

  6. 1. Moral improvement of society 2. Reduction of govt. corruption 3. Child labor laws Goals

  7. Muckrakers: Journalists who uncover wrongdoing in politics or business Writers & Reform

  8. Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle” exposes dangerous conditions in the meatpacking industry. Henry George wanted to make land speculation less profitable by imposing a single tax on the value of land.

  9. 1. Lincoln Steffens 2. Ida Tarbell 3. Upton Sinclair Their articles & books exposed corruption & inspired many to join efforts for reform:

  10. Labor Movement 1. Employers discourage union membership 2. Injunctions-court orders prohibit certain activities e.g strikes Reform Organizations

  11. 1. Wanted to end capitalist system 2. Distribute wealth equally 3. Govt. ownership of American industries Socialists

  12. Florence Kelley: Convinced states to abolish child labor Along w/ Jane Addams worked to reform local labor conditions Mother Jones: Organized unions in mines of WV & CO Women Reformers

  13. 1. 146 workers killed 2. New workplace protections Results of Triangle Factory Fire

  14. Social welfare programs: Ensure minimum standard of living Expanded Role for Govt.

  15. 1. Aimed to end govt. corruption at city level 2. Favored city control of utilities Municipal Reform

  16. 1. Helped to end govt. corruption 2. Citizens gain more political power State Reforms:

  17. 1. Direct primary- citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections 2. Initiative- citizens propose new laws 3. Referendum- allows citizens to approve/reject laws 4. Recall- voters remove public officials from office Power to Voters

  18. Record included: 1. Conservation of land- more than 200 million acres 2. Breakup of trusts 3. Regulation of food & drugs Roosevelt & Reform

  19. 1. United Mine workers strike 2. TR demands arbitration TR's “Square Deal”

  20. Taft & Wilson

  21. Conservationists:people who favor protection of the environment

  22. 1. Management of public lands 2. Ballinger opposed conservation policies on federal land 3. Pinchot-head of US Forest Service Ballinger-Pinchot Affair

  23. Election of 1912 Wilson Taft Roosevelt Debs

  24. 1. Name comes from TR comment 2. Platform supported women's suffrage The Bull Moose Party“I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.” TR

  25. Split in Rep. Party gives Wilson win

  26. 1. Clayton Antitrust Act favored by labor unions 2. FTC given power to stop businesses from unfair business tactics Wilson as President

  27. 1. Established to reorganize federal bank 2. Created in response to economic overhaul The Federal Reserve

  28. Limits of Progressivism

  29. 1. Municipal problems 2. Problems of urban residents Focused mainly on:

  30. 3. African-Americans felt ignored4. Ended by World War I

  31. Early success with some states allowing Suffrage at Last women to vote

  32. 1. Would make women “too masculine” 2. Easily manipulated 3. Distract from home Arguments Against Suffrage

  33. Civil disobedience: nonviolent refusal to obey a law Nations most famous suffragist Arrested for insisting on voting Susan B. Anthony

  34. Split in campaign caused by Alice Paul's aggressive military strategy

  35. More Americans support suffrage Blurred lines b/t men's & women's roles WWI

  36. Ended by passage of 19th Amendment

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