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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
19 th century America leads to broad progressive reforms.

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Protecting social welfare
Promoting moral improvement
Creating economic reform
Fostering efficiency

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Social Gospel, settlement houses inspire other reform groups
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Florence Kelley , political activist, advocate for women, children
 helps pass law prohibiting child labor, limiting women’s hours

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Some feel poor should uplift selves by improving own behavior
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Prohibition —banning of alcoholic drinks
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union spearheads prohibition crusade

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1893 panic prompts doubts about capitalism; many become socialists
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Muckrakers —journalists who expose corruption in politics, business
 Upton Sinclair – The Jungle
 Ida M. Tarbell – “History of Standard Oil Company”

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Many use experts, science to make society, workplace more efficient
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Scientific management —time and motion studies applied to workplace
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Assembly lines speed up production, make people work like machines
 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
 Attacks big business

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Child workers get lower wages, small hands handle small parts better
 families need children’s wages
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National Child Labor Committee gathers evidence of harsh conditions
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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

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Initiative —bill proposed by people, not lawmakers, put on ballots
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Referendum —voters, not legislature, decide if initiative becomes law
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Recall —voters remove elected official through early election
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Primaries allow voters, not party machines, to choose candidates
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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?

• Only middle-, upper-class women can devote selves to home, family
• Poor women usually have to work for wages outside home

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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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Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
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What was his contribution to progressivism and the modern presidency?

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Rough Rider
President McKinley shot; Roosevelt becomes president at
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Modern President
Square Deal

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Uses the Sherman Anti-Trust act to:
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Break up monopolies and trusts

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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle —unsanitary conditions in meatpacking
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Roosevelt pushes for Meat Inspection Act
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Pure Food and Drug Act halts sale of contaminated food, medicine

• 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?

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28 th 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
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) —new
“watchdog” agency
 investigates regulatory violations
 ends unfair business practices
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1920 Nineteenth Amendment grants women right to vote
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Federal Reserve System —private banking system under federal control