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The Progressive Era, 1900-1917

The Progressive Era, 1900-1917. Chapter 21. Guiding Questions. How did intellectuals, novelists, and journalists, help lay the groundwork for the Progressive Movement? What problems of the new urban-industrial order particularly disturbed progressives, and how did they address these problems?

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The Progressive Era, 1900-1917

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  1. The Progressive Era, 1900-1917 Chapter 21

  2. Guiding Questions • How did intellectuals, novelists, and journalists, help lay the groundwork for the Progressive Movement? • What problems of the new urban-industrial order particularly disturbed progressives, and how did they address these problems? • How did the progressive reform affect ordinary Americans, including workers, women, immigrants, city dwellers, and African Americans? • As progressivism emerged as a national movement, which politicians and issues proved most important? • How did Progressivism change Americans’ view of the proper role of the government?

  3. The Progressive Era • Who were the Progressives? • The Middle Class • The White collar Work Force • Professional Groups • The role of women • The role of political machines

  4. The Progressive Era • What were the by products of industrialization? • Immigration • Urban growth • The rise of corporate power • Widening class divisions

  5. The Progressive Era • Calls for an Activist government • Thorstein Veblen • The Theory of the Leisure Class • Herbert Croly • The Promise of American Life • Jane Addams • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

  6. Social Problems • Muckrakers • Frank Norris • The Octopus • Theodore Dreiser • The Financier • Lincoln Steffens • Ida Tarbell

  7. State and Local Progressivism • Municipal Reformers • Hazen Pingree • Samuel Jones • City Improvements Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones

  8. The Progressive Era • Secret Ballots • Direct Primaries • The Initiative • Referendums • The recall Hazen Pingree

  9. The Progressive Movement • The rise of big business • Government Regulation • Governor Robert La Follette • The Wisconsin Idea

  10. The Progressive Movement • The focus on the cities • Daniel Burnham • New laws regarding American Cities

  11. The Progressive Movement • Entertainment • Nickelodeons • Censorship Boards • Regulating Prostitution • The American Social Hygiene Association • The “White Slave” hysteria • The Mann Act (1910) • Red light districts

  12. The Progressive Movement • Battling Alcohol and Drugs • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union • the Anti-Saloon League • The Narcotics Act (Harrison Act) of 1914

  13. Progressivism • The Immigration Restriction League • Literacy Tests • Eugenicists

  14. Progressivism • Racism during the Progressive Era • De facto segregation • Jim Crow Laws • Booker T. Washington

  15. Progressivism • William Monroe Trotter • Ida Wells-Barnett • W.E.B. Du Bois • The Niagara Movement • The NAACP • Oswald Garrison Villard

  16. Progressivism • Carrie Chapman Catt • The National American Woman Suffrage Association • Alice Paul • The Woman’s Party Alice Paul

  17. The Progressive Movement • Labor Unions • The Industrial Workers of the World • Socialism • Eugene Debs

  18. The Progressive Era • Theodore Roosevelt • Roosevelt’s Image • What types of things did TR believe in? • The Teddy Bear

  19. The Progressive Era • Roosevelt and Labor Disputes • The United Mine Workers Union • The Arbitration Commission • Results

  20. The “TR” Years • “Trust-busting” • The Northern Securities Company • Standard Oil Company • The American Tobacco Company

  21. The Progressive Era • The Hepburn Act (1906) • Upton Sinclair • The Jungle • The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) • The Meat Inspection Act (1906)

  22. The Progressive Era • Racial Issues • The Brownsville Incident

  23. Environmentalism • Roosevelt and Conservation • The Sierra Club • Gifford Pinchot • The Newlands Act (1906) • The Antiquities Act (1906)

  24. The Taft Years • William Howard Taft • William Jennings Bryan • The Mann-Elkin Act (1910) • The Payne-Aldrich Bill • Taft fires Pinchot

  25. The Progressive Era • The Election of 1912 • The Progressive (Bull Moose) Party • Woodrow Wilson • Eugene Debs • Wilson’s Political Background

  26. Phase II of the Progressive Movement • The Underwood-Simmons Tariff (1913) • The Federal Reserve Act • The Federal Reserve Banks • The Federal Reserve Board

  27. Woodrow Wilson • The Federal Trade Commission Act (1914) • The Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) • Wilson’s support of the workers

  28. Woodrow Wilson • The Keating Owen Act (1916) • The Adamson Act • The Workmen’s Compensation Act • The Federal Loan Act • The Federal Highway Act

  29. Woodrow Wilson • Wilson’s record on racial issues • The Birth of A Nation

  30. Woodrow Wilson • The 16th Amendment • The 17th Amendment • The 18th Amendment • The 19th Amendment

  31. The Progressive Movement • What caused many Americans to turn away from the Progressive Movement during Woodrow Wilson’s second term?

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