Progressive Era Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwLLZcCPKo
Mrs. Zimmer
1. Defining Progressive Movement:
*Why?
*What?
*Who? (list the diverse supporters of the Progressive Movement)
2. Who were the Muckrakers?
1. Ida B. Tarbell:
2. Jacob Riis:
3. Lincoln Steffens:
4. Upton Sinclair:
3. Role of women in the Progressive Movement:
*National Child Labor Committee:
*National Consumers’ League:
Muller v. Oregon (1908)*Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
4. Urban Reform:
*Problems in the Cities
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*Jane Addams/Florence Kelley:
5. State Reform:
*Governor Robert La Follette
“Wisconsin Idea:”
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6. Political Reform:
1. Secret Ballot:
2. Direct Primary:
3. Recall
4. Initiative:
5. Referendum:
6. 17th Amendment
7. Temperance:
*Divisions
*Women’s Christian Temperance Union
*Anti-Saloon League
8. Theodore Roosevelt:
Believed in an __________________ for the President.
Change in Labor Relations
*McKinley (1877)
*Cleveland (1894)
*TR and Coal Miner Strike in 1902:
Square Deal (3 C’s):
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9. Corporations: Trust Busting
*Sherman Anti-Trust Act
*Northern Securities Company
*TR distinguished between __________ (efficient and lower prices) and __________ trusts (hurt
consumers and stifle competition.
*TR sought to increase power of the ______________________
* Elkins Act (1903)
* Hepburn Act (1906)
10. Consumer Protection:
*The Jungle:
*Meat Inspection Act
*Pure Food and Drug Act
11. Conservation:
*Sierra Club
*Forest Reserve Act
*Newlands Reclamation Act
CONSERVATION WAS ROOSEVELT’S MOST LASTING DOMESTIC ACHIEVEMENT
12. Taft:
Picked by Teddy Roosevelt to continue his progressive reforms
*Continued some of the Progressive policies of TR
*Taft’s Foreign Policy:
13. Election of 1912:
Republican: Taft
Progressive (Bull-moose): Roosevelt
Democrat: Woodrow Wilson