The document summarizes key aspects of progressivism in the United States during the early 20th century. It describes progressivism as a reform movement focused on improving living conditions, education, labor, and gaining women's right to vote. It outlines economic reforms under Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson including trustbusting and the Federal Reserve Act. The document also discusses muckrakers, political reforms like women's suffrage and direct election of senators, and social reforms such as settlement houses.

1. State Standards 7.3, 7.6, and 7.9

2. Progressivism
 Progressivism
 A reform movement
focused on improving
living
conditions, education,
working
conditions, stopping
political corruption, and
gain women the right to
vote
 Populist Party

3. Progressivism.
 Three Progressive Presidents
1. Teddy Roosevelt
2. William Howard Taft
3. Woodrow Wilson

4. Economic Reforms
 Theodore Roosevelt
 Hates big business and
its impact on the
government
 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
 Take legal action against
the country’s largest
corporations
 “The trustbuster”
 Conservation of natural
resources
 Protection of wildlife

5. Economic Reforms.
 William Howard Taft
 Sixteenth Amendment
 Allowed Congress to levy
income taxes

6. Economic Reforms..
 Woodrow Wilson
 Focused on labor and
business
 “New Freedom”
 Tariff reform and rules for
banks
 Federal Reserve Act
 Set up the Federal Reserve
Banking System
 Regulates the nations
money supply

7. Economic Reforms…
 Woodrow Wilson
 Clayton Antitrust Act
 Used to break fight against
big business
 Keating-Owen Child
Labor Act
 Forbade the sale of
products made by children
across state lines

8. Muckrakers
 Muckrakers
 Writers who attempted
to expose abuses in
business and corruption
in politics by using their
writing
 Very important to the
Progressive Movement
 Their work helped
educate the public
about changes needed

9. Muckrakers.
 Ida Tarbell
 History of the Standard
Oil Company
 Brought the company’s
monopoly to light and
eventually led to a
government antitrust suit
against the company

10. Muckrakers..
 Upton Sinclair
 The Jungle
 Told of unsafe and
unsanitary conditions in
meat processing plants
 Causes public uproar
 Pure Food and Drug Act of
1906
 Mandated safe and sanitary
conditions for food
preparation and packing
 Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
 Put regulations on food
and medicines

12. Political Reform
 “Wisconsin Idea”
 Proposed to use University
professors to study problems
and recommend solutions
 Leads to the 17th Amendment
 Allowed for the direct
election by the people of
senators on a national level
 Oregon System
 Leads to the direct election
of senators and a process
with which to recall them

13. Women’s Suffrage (Giving women the right to vote)
 Seneca Falls Convention
 Declaration of Sentiments
 Drew upon the Declaration
of Independence to
articulate women’s rights
 National Suffrage Leagues
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 Susan B. Anthony
 Lucy Stone
 Worked through suffrage
leagues to securing the
right to vote for women

14. Women’s Suffrage.
 Alice Paul
 Mass Marches
 Hunger Strikes
 Used to demonstrate
against a government
that did not allow half
of its population to vote

15. Women’s Suffrage..
 Tennessee
 “The Perfect 36”
 Nineteenth Amendment
 35 states had ratified this
amendment to give women
the right to vote
 Tennessee was not one of
them
 If Tennessee ratified the
amendment it would
become the perfect 36th state
 Governor Albert H. Roberts
 Holds an assembly to vote
on the amendment

16. Women’s Suffrage...
 Tennessee
 Tennessee was the
deciding state for
Women’s Suffrage
 If Tennessee ratified the
amendment then it would
become law
 Harry Burn
 Legislator who vote to pass
the amendment because his
mom told him to
 Results in Tennessee giving
women the right to vote

17. Women’s Suffrage….
 Female Leaders in
Progressive Era
 Women’s Trade Union
League
 Lobbied for the 18th
amendment
 Prohibition- stop the sale
of alcohol

18. Settlement Houses
 Hull House
 Jane Addams
 Formed to help
immigrants and the
poor “settle into”
American culture
 Henry Street Settlement
 Lillian Wald
 New York’s lower east side
 Taught immigrant women
about health and hygiene

19. The Great Migration
 Population Shift
 Employment
opportunities were
opened in the North
 African Americans leave
the south for the North
 Nearly half a million
African Americans
migrated north between
1916 and 1919

20. Urban areas during this time period
New York
Chicago
Boston
North East!

21. African American Cultural Figures
 W.E.B. Du Bois
 Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
 Black Nationalist Policy
 Believed African Americans should stay independent of white
Americans
 Booker T. Washington
 Assimilation of blacks into white culture
 Believed African Americans should be worked into white American
culture
 “Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are Speech”
 Marcus Garvey
 Segregationist policies and revolutionary tactics