Progressives

1. Middle class men and women Called for a strong federal government to fix the problems of the Gilded Age Hoped to remove power from the city and senators and return it to the people Believed that by helping the poor, socialism would be avoided Progressives

2. Lincoln Steffens-The Shame of the Cities Ray Baker- Following the Color Line Ida Tarbell-The History of the Standard Oil Company Upton Sinclair- The Jungle Edward Bellamy- Looking Backward Henry Lloyd- Wealth Against Commonwealth Jacob Riis-How the Other Half Lives MuckrakersThere are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.- Teddy Roosevelt

3. Helped draft the McKinley Tariff Trustbuster Fought for direct election of senator, women’s suffrage and minimum wage Wisconsin Plan Fighting Bob La Follette

4. Continued belief in “separate spheres” leads women to focus on “women’s” issue such as child labor, prostitution and education Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Margaret Sanger Progressive Women

5. Settlement Houses/Hull House

6. The Passing of the Great Race- Madison Grant Du Bois vs Washington The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.- Atlanta Compromise “Cast your bucket down where you are”- Washington Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”- DuBois African Americans

7. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Mueller v Oregon- protect women from “men’s” jobs Lochner v New York- ten hour work day for bakers (expanded to include factory workers in 1917) Labor Issues

9. Women’s Christian Temperance Union and Frances Willard Carrie Nation “make the world more homelike” Temperance

10. Conserve nature, control corporations, consumer protection “Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us." Teddy Roosevelt and the Square Deal

11. "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." - Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle" Meat Inspection Act and the FDA

12. Teddy and Trustbusting

13. Newlands Act- irrigation Forrest Reserve Act Carey Act Conservation of nature

14. Howard Taft

15. Taft managed to “bust” Standard Oil and U.S steel- over 90 anti trust suits Payne Aldrich Tariff Act Pinocht- Ballinger controversy 16th amendment Taft’s Presidency

16. Election of 1912

17. High import tariffs. • Put limitations on female and child labor. • Workman’s Compensation Laws. • Against initiative, referendum, and recall. • Against “bad” trusts. • Creation of a Federal Trade Commission. • Stay on the gold standard. • Conservation of natural resources because they are finite. Republican Platform

18. Women’s suffrage. • Graduated income tax. • Inheritance tax for the rich. • Lower tariffs. • Limits on campaign spending. • Currency reform. • Minimum wage laws. • Social insurance. • Abolition of child labor. • Workmen’s compensation Progressive PlatformNew Nationalism

19. Government ownership of railroads and utilities. • Guaranteed income tax. • No tariffs. • 8-hour work day. • Better housing. • Government inspection of factories. • Women’s suffrage. Socialist Party and Eugene Debs

20. Government control of the monopolies  trusts in general were bad  eliminate them!! • Tariff reduction. • One-term President. • Direct election of Senators. • Create a Department of Labor. • Strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. • Did NOT support women’s suffrage. • Opposed to a central bank. Democratic PartyNew Freedom!

27. Federal Reserve Act Underwood Tariff Clayton Antitrust Act Warehouse Act, La Follette Seaman’s Act, Federal Farm Loan Act 17th Amendment Wilson’s Presidency

28. American neutrality Sinking of the Lusitania and the Arabic Sussex Ultimatum Beginning of WWI

30. Wilson Reelected in 1916