Instructor E-Sources PowerPoint™ Presentation Chapter 10 Progressivism in Texas

1. Instructor E-SourcesPowerPoint™ PresentationChapter 10Progressivism in Texas The History of Texas Harlan Davidson, Inc.

2. Learning Outcomes (10) • Understand the origins of progressive reform, • be knowledgeable of specific reforms that impacted the state and nation, • appreciate the political and economic ramifications of progressive reform, • anticipate the social implications on women and minorities of progressive reform.

3. Chapter 10Progressivism in Texas • Texas brand Progressivism • Limitations • A middle-class democratic society • For whites only • Social control embedded in older agrarian solutions • 20th Century Texas politics • State legislature & reform • The poll tax • Election laws & tax reform

4. Progressivism in Texas • 20th Century Texas politics • Baileyism & antitrust: Progressivism? • Waters-Pierce case • Conflict-of-interest • The Campbell & Colquitt Administrations • Progressive reformers • Tax, insurance, & banking reform • Regulatory legislations • Response to the Mexican Revolution

5. Progressivism in Texas • General Progressive reforms • Education • Under-funded & poorly attended • Move to regularize • Improve transportation • Provide free textbooks • The compulsory attendance debate • Teacher accreditation • A Progressive educational philosophy

6. Progressivism in Texas • General Progressive reforms • Institutional reforms • Prison reform • Better care for the poor, mentally ill, & physically challenged • Hospitals & Asylums • Forest Conservation & Roads • Texas Department of Forestry • The Good Roads Movement

7. Progressivism in Texas • Fergusonism: Reform interrupted • An anti-prohibition campaign • Border problems • “Bandit” Raids • Plan de San Diego • Pancho Villa & Pershing • Texas Rangers & Tejanos • Suffrage • Permanent University Fund James E. & Miriam A. Ferguson

8. Progressivism in Texas Some soldiers from the Punitive Expedition, 1916

9. Progressivism in Texas • Woodrow Wilson, Will Hobby, & WW I • Wilson’s 1912 election • Hobby mandate repudiates Fergusonism • Texans & The Great War • 197,789 serve - 5,170 casualties • Army & Air Corps camps established in Texas • Inflation & cost of government rises • New opportunities for women • Women in Action • Suffrage • Women’s organizations

10. Progressivism in Texas Katherine Stinson being sworn in as an airmail pilot, San Antonio, Texas, May 14, 1915

11. Progressivism in Texas • Texas after WW I • Prohibition in Texas – The 18th Amendment • The Wet / Dry debate • During WW I “patriotic” not to drink • The legacy of WW I in Texas • Antiforeign hysteria • Social control & the public schools • The Return of Progressive Administration • Reluctant legislators & unconcerned electorate • The challenge of nnforcing prohibition

12. Progressivism in Texas • KKK, Fundamentalism, & Evolution Debate • The urban KKK & moral conformity • Religious fundamentalism • Defeat of anti-evolution legislation • The Waning of Progressivism, 1925-1931 • Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson & the Klan • Abuse of ethical standards • Gov. Moody & “business progressivism” • A Progressive legacy?

13. James "Pa" Ferguson Terrell law - primaries poll tax chartering of state banks Baileyism and antitrust Thomas M. Campbell Oscar Branch Colquitt Prohibition Educational reforms University Interscholastic League Institutional reforms Good Roads Movement Texas Highway Dept. Texas Forestry Association Plan de San Diego William P. Hobby, World War I "Immortal Forty" Annie Webb Blanton League of Women Voters Robertson Insurance Law of 1907 "petticoat lobby" Pat M. Neff The Rebel Miriam "Ma" Ferguson Key Words & Terms (10)