Transcript Ch. 17.1 Progressivism - Mr. Zittle's Classroom [licensed

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What were the social, economic, and political
conditions that provoked the progressive
movement?
What were the goals of the progressive
movement?
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Could women vote?
Did workers have the rights that we do today?
Could rats get mixed up in processed food?
Did people drive cars?
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Political, economic, and social change in late
19th century America leads to broad
progressive reforms.
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Protecting social welfare
Promoting moral improvement
Creating economic reform
Fostering efficiency
 Social
Gospel, settlement houses inspire other
reform groups
 Florence Kelley, political activist, advocate for
women, children
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helps pass law prohibiting child labor, limiting women’s
hours
 Some
feel poor should uplift selves by improving
own behavior
 Prohibition—banning of alcoholic drinks
 Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
spearheads prohibition crusade
 1893
panic prompts doubts about capitalism;
many become socialists
 Muckrakers—journalists who expose corruption
in politics, business
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Upton Sinclair – The Jungle
Ida M. Tarbell – “History of Standard Oil Company”
 Many
use experts, science to make society,
workplace more efficient
 Scientific management—time and motion
studies applied to workplace
 Assembly lines speed up production, make
people work like machines
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cause high worker turnover
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What are the four goals of progressivism?
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Governors push states to pass laws to regulate
large businesses
Robert M. La Follette is 3-term governor, then
senator of Wisconsin
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Attacks big business
 Child
workers get lower wages, small hands
handle small parts better
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families need children’s wages
 National
Child Labor Committee gathers
evidence of harsh conditions
 Groups press government to ban child labor,
cut hours
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Muller v. Oregon—Court upholds limiting women
to 10-hour workday
Bunting v. Oregon—upholds 10-hour workday
for men
Reformers win workers’ compensation for
families of injured, killed
 Initiative—bill
proposed by people, not
lawmakers, put on ballots
 Referendum—voters, not legislature, decide if
initiative becomes law
 Recall—voters remove elected official through
early election
 Primaries allow voters, not party machines, to
choose candidates
 Seventeenth Amendment permits popular
election of senators
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What were the four goals of the progressives?
What was the temperance movement?
Name two reforms to elections.
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What major steps did women take to gain
equal rights during the Progressive Era?
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Only middle-, upper-class women can devote
selves to home, family
Poor women usually have to work for wages
outside home
 Women
reformers target workplace, housing,
education, food, drugs
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)—
child care, education
 Susan B. Anthony of National American Woman
Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA)
 works for woman suffrage, or right to vote
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What is suffrage?
Who was a primary advocate for women’s
suffrage?
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AKS
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Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
What was his contribution to progressivism and the
modern presidency?
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Rough Rider
President McKinley
shot; Roosevelt
becomes president at
42
Modern President
Square Deal
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Uses the Sherman Anti-Trust act to:
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Break up monopolies and trusts
 Upton
Sinclair’s The Jungle—unsanitary
conditions in meatpacking
 Roosevelt pushes for Meat Inspection Act
 Pure Food and Drug Act halts sale of
contaminated food, medicine
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Roosevelt sets aside forest reserves,
sanctuaries, national parks
Believes conservation part preservation, part
development for public
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Who was the largest president in American
History?
Who was the only president to also serves in
the highest office of the Judicial Branch?
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Republican Party Splits
Progressives form Bull Moose Party;
nominate Roosevelt
Runs against Democrat Woodrow Wilson,
reform governor of NJ
Wilson wins
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Who was Woodrow Wilson?
What were his domestic and international
visions for the United States?
28th President
Wilson was lawyer,
professor, president of
Princeton, NJ governor
As president, focuses on
trusts, tariffs, high finance
Fair Deal
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 Clayton
Antitrust Act stops companies buying
stock to form monopoly
 Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—new
“watchdog” agency
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investigates regulatory violations
ends unfair business practices
 1920
Nineteenth Amendment grants women
right to vote
 Federal Reserve System—private banking
system under federal control