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The Progressive Movement
What were Progressives’ goals?
Government should be more active to cure social
problems.
1. Greater democracy; restore control of
government to the people
2. Correct the injustices of industrialization;
trust-busting
3. Moral reform; end child labor and prohibit
alcohol
Who were Progressives?
Populists: farmers/workers, in
South and West, lower/working
class
Progressives: middle class,
educated, urban, women, old
Social Gospel
Progressivism = Populism that
had “shaved its whiskers,
washed its shirt, put on a
derby, and moved up into the
middle class.”
Progressives were Muckrakers
• Lincoln Steffans,
Shame of the
Cities(1903)
• Jacob Riis, How the
Other Half Lives(1890-
1903)
• Ida M. Tarbell, The
History of the
Standard Oil Company
(1904)
• Upton Sinclair, The
Jungle (1906)
Progressives were Moral Crusaders
• “Americanization” of
Immigrants; Jane
Addams’ Hull House,
Chicago
• Prohibition (Women’s
Christian Temperance
Movement)
Progressives were Suffragettes
• Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt = National
American Woman Suffrage Association
• Alice Paul = National Woman’s Party
Progressives fought inefficiency and corruption
• Fredrick W. Taylor,
Principals of Scientific
Management, 1911
• Ford Motor Co.: assembly
line, 8 hr.day, $5/day
• Gov. Robert La Follette of
WI: railroad regulation,
direct primaries, limited
campaign expenditures and
lobbying
• Secret (Australian) Ballot,
Initiative, Referendum, and
Recall
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
prohibits
activities that
restrict
interstate
commerce and
competition in
the marketplace
U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
Congress can regulate
interstate commerce, but
manufacturing was not
commerce
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
upheld state-imposed racial
segregation; established
principle of separate but equal
POTUS 26:Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt (1901-1909)
Northern Securities v. U.S. (1904)
reversed E.C
Knight vs.
United States;
Northern
Securities
Company had a
monopoly on
railroad traffic
across the
northern part of
the country;
ordered to
break-up
Northern Securities v. U.S. (1904)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
The Jungle:
• meat piled in dark rooms where
"thousands of rats would race
about on it.”
• rats and other contaminants
included in processed meat
• allegations that workers would
fall into the giant vats and be
ground up with the meat and
sold to the public
required USDA inspectors
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
• prevent “the
manufacture, sale, or
transportation of
adulterated or
misbranded or
poisonous or
deleterious foods,
drugs or medicines,
and liquors
• created the Food and
Drug Administration
(FDA)
Antiquities Act (1906)
gave the President
the power
to proclaim
historic
landmarks,
historic and
prehistoric
structures, and
other objects of
historic or
scientific
interest to be
national monuments
POTUS 27:William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
American Tobacco v. U.S. (1911)
American Tobacco
Company violated the
federal Sherman Antitrust
Act of 1890 by seeking to
monopolize tobacco industry
Progressive Party:
Women’s suffrage
Income tax and inheritance tax
Workmen’s compensation
Abolition of child labor
Minimum wage
Social insurance
1912 Election
After getting
shot during an
assassination
attempt, he
refused medical
attention and
stood outside
and gave a two-
hour speech in
before going to
the hospital to
get the bullet
removed.
“Friends, 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. But
fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to
make a long speech, and there is a bullet — there is where the
bullet went through — and it probably saved me from it going
into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make
a very long speech, but I will try my best.”
POTUS 28:WoodrowWilson (1913-1921)
16th Amendment (1913)
The Congress shall have
power to lay and collect
taxes on incomes, from
whatever source derived,
without apportionment among
the several States, and
without regard to any
census or enumeration.
17th Amendment (1913)
The Senate of the United
States shall be composed of
two Senators from each
State, elected by the
people thereof, for six
years; and each Senator
shall have one vote. The
electors in each State
shall have the
qualifications requisite
for electors of the most
numerous branch of the
State legislatures.
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
created the
Federal
Reserve
System,
or "Fed"
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
defines unethical
business practices,
such as price-fixing
and monopolies, and
upholds various
rights of labor
Keating-Owen Act (1916)
prohibited the interstate shipment
of goods produced in factories or
mines in which children under age
14 were employed
18th Amendment (1919)
After one year from the
ratification of this
article the manufacture,
sale, or transportation of
intoxicating liquors
within, the importation
thereof into, or the
exportation thereof from
the United States and all
territory subject to the
jurisdiction thereof for
beverage purposes is hereby
prohibited.
Volstead Act (1919)
enforced Prohibition by
defining the process and
procedures for banning
alcoholic beverages, as
well as their production
and distribution
19th Amendment (1920)
The right of citizens of
the United States to
vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the
United States or by any
State on account of sex.

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The Progressive Movement.pdf

  • 2. What were Progressives’ goals? Government should be more active to cure social problems. 1. Greater democracy; restore control of government to the people 2. Correct the injustices of industrialization; trust-busting 3. Moral reform; end child labor and prohibit alcohol
  • 3. Who were Progressives? Populists: farmers/workers, in South and West, lower/working class Progressives: middle class, educated, urban, women, old Social Gospel Progressivism = Populism that had “shaved its whiskers, washed its shirt, put on a derby, and moved up into the middle class.”
  • 4. Progressives were Muckrakers • Lincoln Steffans, Shame of the Cities(1903) • Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives(1890- 1903) • Ida M. Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) • Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
  • 5. Progressives were Moral Crusaders • “Americanization” of Immigrants; Jane Addams’ Hull House, Chicago • Prohibition (Women’s Christian Temperance Movement)
  • 6. Progressives were Suffragettes • Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt = National American Woman Suffrage Association • Alice Paul = National Woman’s Party
  • 7. Progressives fought inefficiency and corruption • Fredrick W. Taylor, Principals of Scientific Management, 1911 • Ford Motor Co.: assembly line, 8 hr.day, $5/day • Gov. Robert La Follette of WI: railroad regulation, direct primaries, limited campaign expenditures and lobbying • Secret (Australian) Ballot, Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
  • 8. Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace
  • 9. U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895) Congress can regulate interstate commerce, but manufacturing was not commerce
  • 10. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld state-imposed racial segregation; established principle of separate but equal
  • 11. POTUS 26:Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt (1901-1909)
  • 12. Northern Securities v. U.S. (1904) reversed E.C Knight vs. United States; Northern Securities Company had a monopoly on railroad traffic across the northern part of the country; ordered to break-up
  • 13. Northern Securities v. U.S. (1904)
  • 14. Meat Inspection Act (1906) The Jungle: • meat piled in dark rooms where "thousands of rats would race about on it.” • rats and other contaminants included in processed meat • allegations that workers would fall into the giant vats and be ground up with the meat and sold to the public required USDA inspectors
  • 15. Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) • prevent “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors • created the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • 16. Antiquities Act (1906) gave the President the power to proclaim historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest to be national monuments
  • 17. POTUS 27:William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
  • 18. American Tobacco v. U.S. (1911) American Tobacco Company violated the federal Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by seeking to monopolize tobacco industry
  • 19. Progressive Party: Women’s suffrage Income tax and inheritance tax Workmen’s compensation Abolition of child labor Minimum wage Social insurance
  • 21. After getting shot during an assassination attempt, he refused medical attention and stood outside and gave a two- hour speech in before going to the hospital to get the bullet removed.
  • 22. “Friends, 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. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet — there is where the bullet went through — and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”
  • 23.
  • 25. 16th Amendment (1913) The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
  • 26. 17th Amendment (1913) The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
  • 27. Federal Reserve Act (1913) created the Federal Reserve System, or "Fed"
  • 28. Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) defines unethical business practices, such as price-fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor
  • 29. Keating-Owen Act (1916) prohibited the interstate shipment of goods produced in factories or mines in which children under age 14 were employed
  • 30. 18th Amendment (1919) After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
  • 31. Volstead Act (1919) enforced Prohibition by defining the process and procedures for banning alcoholic beverages, as well as their production and distribution
  • 32. 19th Amendment (1920) The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.