Transcript Chapter 20 The Progressive Era
Chapter 20 The Progressive Era
Mrs. Hauber
What was the Progressive Movement?
Effects of the Industrial Revolution Definition When did it take place?
Major Beliefs/Goals/Reforms Who were the Progressives?
How did they accomplish their goals?
Video Clip of Progressivism
The Progressive Agenda
Social Reforms Economic Reforms Political Reforms
President William McKinley
Elected in 1896 (Republican) Appointed Teddy Roosevelt as Assistant US Secretary of the Navy De’Lome Letter Election of 1900 TR was Vice-President
The Death of McKinley
In the 1900 election, McKinley won again.
His assassination Leon Czolgosh TR becomes President
TR’s Square Deal
Characteristics To Tell the Truth Game Square Deal Progressive President
TR’s National Progressivism
Social Reform
Improvement of living conditions Jacob Riis Settlement houses Housing regulations Improvement of working conditions Wages, Hours, Safety, and Child Labor Laws
The Coal Strike (example of social reform)
Location Problems for mine workers John Mitchell Mine Owners reaction to the strike TR intervened Arbitration Result of the Hearings
Economic Reform
Laissez-faire More Government Regulation Trusts and Monopolies Ida Tarbell Trustbuster
The Northern Securities Case
TR’s first case A combination of railroads in the Northwest Sherman Anti-trust Act The Court ordered the trust to dissolve.
Good Trust vs. Bad Trust
Good Trusts Beat its rival because of better prices Better products Managed more efficiently Should only be regulated Bad Trusts Formed to gouge the public Ends competition Should be broken up or dissolved
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hepburn Bill What did the ICC control?
Political Reforms
City Level Lincoln Steffens Political bosses State Level Robert LaFollette Increase power of voters Recall Initiative Referendum Direct Primary Direct elections National Level 16 th Amendment 17 th Amendment 18 th Amendment 19 th Amendment
Other Reform Legislation
Meat Inspection Act Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle” Pure Food and Drug Act Definition of Conservation Newlands Reclamation Act
Women’s Suffrage
Workmen’s Compensation Laws Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women’s Suffrage By 1896, women could vote in 4 states Alice Paul Carrie Chapman Catt 19 th Amendment
Video Clip on Women’s Suffrage
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
Francis Willard Carrie Nation The Anti-Saloon League 18 th Amendment
Muckrakers
Definition Famous Journalists Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Jacob Riis Upton Sinclair Lewis Hines
President Taft
Characteristics Definition of a Tariff Advantages and Disadvantages to Tariffs How Did he Disappoint the Progressives?
Pinchot Affair The Insurgent Revolt
Video Clip on Taft
Royal Progress of TR
TR toured through Western Europe Spoke out against Taft when he returned “New Nationalism”—called for unity behind a program of improvement and control TR Runs against Taft in a new party called “The Progressive Party” Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
Characteristics Tariff Reform Currency and Banking Reform Federal Reserve Act Clayton Anti-Trust Act Federal Trade Commission
Video Clip on Wilson
Summary of Progressive Ideas
So What Was Missing?
Attitudes about Race Still called for Chinese immigration laws Didn’t fight for equality for African Americans
The African-American Crisis
The 13 th , 14 th , & 15 th Amendments Jim Crow Laws Sharecropping Lynchings Ida Wells
The Plight of African Americans
The NAACP
Definition WEB DuBois Booker T. Washington The Niagara Movement The Great Migration
Seeking A World Role
TR Taft Wilson
TR and Foreign Affairs
Motto: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick Loved power for the US and himself US became the 2 nd largest navy in the World
The US and the Far East
Russo-Japanese War TR offered arbitration Reasons US got involved He ended the war and won the Nobel Peace Prize Conditions of the Root-Takahira Agreement
The Panama Canal
History Offer to Columbia Panamanian Revolt Panama leases Canal Building of the Canal Main Obstacles Yellow Fever Dr. Gorgas Cost of the Canal
Video Clip on the Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Addendum to the Monroe Doctrine Us would intervene in Latin America if there was any chronic wrong doings.
Foreign Affairs Under Taft and Wilson
Dollar Diplomacy Moral Foreign Policy President de Facto Pancho Villa