CHAPTER 9: The Progressive Era
SECTION 1: The Origins of Progressivism
1. Four Goals of Progressivism
a) Progressive movement
b) Protecting social welfare
c) Florence Kelley
d) Promoting moral improvement
e) Prohibition
f) Creating economic reform
g) Muckrakers
h) Fostering efficiency
i) Scientific management
2. Cleaning Up Local Government
a) Reforming local government
b) Reform mayors
3. Reform at the State Level
a) Reform governors
b) Robert M. La Follette
c) Protecting working children
d) Efforts to limit working hours
e) Reforming elections
(i)
Initiative
(ii)
Recall
(iii) Referendum
f) Direct election of senators
g) Seventeenth Amendment
SECTION 2: Women in Public Life
1. Women in the Work Force
a) Farm women
b) Women in industry
c) Domestic workers
1. Women Lead Reform
a) Women in higher education
b) Women and reform
(i)
NACW
(ii)
Susan B. Anthony
(iii) Suffrage
(iv)
NAWSA
c) A three-part strategy for suffrage
SECTION 3: Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
1. A Rough Riding President
a. Roosevelt’s Rise
b. The Modern Presidency
i. The Square Deal
2. Using Federal Power
a. Trustbusing
b. 1902 Coal Strike
c. Railroad Regulation
i. ICC
ii. Hepburn Act of 1906
3. Health and Environment
a. Regulating Food and Drugs
i. Meat Inspection Act
b. Pure Food and Drug Act
c. Conservation and Natural Resources
i. US Forest Bureau\
d. Conservation Measures
i. Yosemite
ii. Newlands Act
4. Roosevelt and Civil Rights
a. Meeting with Booker T.
b. NAACP
Section 4: Progressivism Under Taft
1. Taft Becomes President
a. Taft Stumbles
b. The Payne-Aldrich Tariff
c. Disputing Public Lands
2. The Republican Party Splits
a. Problems Within the Party
i. Uncle Joe
b. The Bull Moose Party
i. New Nationalism
ii. Woodrow Wilson
3. Democrats Win in 1912
a. Wilson’s New Freedoms
b. Taft’s Conservatism
c. Roosevelt’s Progressivism
d. Deb’s Socialist Party
Section 5: Wilson’s New Freedom
1. Wilson Wins Financial Reforms
a. Wilson’s Background
b. Two Key Antitrust Measures
i. Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
ii. Federal Trade Commission
c. A New Tax System
d. Federal Income Tax
e. Federal Reserve System
2. Women Win Suffrage
a. Local Suffrage Battles
b. \Catt and the National Movement
c. 19th Amendment
3. The Limits of Progressivism
a. Wilson and Civil Rights
b. The Twilights of Progressivism