The Progressive
Movement
AP Chapters 28 & 29
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Progressivism:
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Series of responses…..
Reaction against laissez-faire…
“Fixing” govt. in order to “fix” the nation’s
problems…
Many ideas based on pragmatism (William
James and John Dewey)
Principles of scientific
management…(Frederick Taylor)
Muckrakers:
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Journalists on a “crusade” to expose
political corruption and investigate social
problems
Ida Tarbell
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History of the
Standard Oil
Company
Jacob Riis: - photography of
poverty/disease/crime in NYC – How the Other
Half Lives
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Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
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The Jungle…
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Pure Food and Drug
Act
Meat Inspection Act
Child Labor
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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Leads to Health and
Safety codes for
workers
Workers
compensation
eventually enacted
Prohibition
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Temperance
Movement…
Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
18th Amendment –
1919….
“Goo – Goos”
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Secret Ballot (Australian Ballot)…
Municipal Reform
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Taking control of public utilities…
Commissions (Galveston,TX 1900)
Manager - Council (Dayton, OH 1913)
Robert Lafollette
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Direct Primary
led to…
Initiatives…
Referendums…
Recall….
 17th
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Amendment
1913 – Direct election
of senators
Teddy Roosevelt – 26th President
“Square Deal”
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“Trust Busting” –
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Bad Trusts
Good Trusts
Northern Securities v
U.S.
Railroad Regulation –
Conservation
William Howard Taft – 27th President
Tafts Progressive Legislation
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Mann-Elkins Act 1910
Sixteenth
Amendment…
Taft Falls from Favor
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Payne-Aldrich Tarriff
Pinchot-Ballinger
Controversy
U.S. Steel
Midterm Elections
Election of 1912
Bull Moose Party
New Nationalism vs. New Freedom
Socialism
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Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party – 1912
Woodrow Wilson – 28th President
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Underwood Tariff (1913)–
Federal Reserve Act (1914) –
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) –
Federal Trade Commission (1914) –
Federal Farm Loan Act (1916) –
Child Labor Act (1916) -
African-Americans in the Progressive
Era
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Largely Ignored…
Booker T. Washington
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Tuskegee Institute
Stressed education
and economic
progress…
W.E.B. Du Bois
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The Souls of Black
Folk (1903)
Militant demands for
equal rights
Critic of Booker T.
Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
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1905 Niagara
Movement…
1908 NAACP…
Black Migration
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Bad race relations in the South…
Cotton destroyed by the boll weevil…
Job opportunities in Northern Factories…
Women’s Suffrage
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Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
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Lucy Stone
Julia Ward Howe
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Suffrage movement unites to form the
National Women’s Suffrage Assoc.
Led by Carrie Chapman Catt and Anne
Dallas Dudley (TN)
19th Amendment – grants suffrage to
women
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TN Gov. Albert
Roberts…
War of the Roses…
Harry Burn….
TN – 36th State to
Approve