CHAPTER 6 – The Progressive Movement
Time Period:________________________________________________________
Lesson 1 – The Roots of Progressivism
The Rise of Progressivism
Progressivism
1.
Muckrakers
Who Were the Progressives?

Progressive Beliefs?

Demographics of Progressives
2. Muckrakers
Direct Primary
Initiative
Legislation
Referendum
Examples of Muckrakers

What they did

Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives)
Answer: What groups of people made up the Progressive Movement?
Reforming Government
1.
Recall
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton

Making Government Efficient

Frederick W. Taylor’s The Principles of Scientific Management

Commission Plan
2. Democratic Reforms
Suffrage
17th Amendment

Robert La Follette

Kinds of Democratic Reforms Progressives wanted
1.
2.
3.
Women’s Suffrage
1.
Early Challenges

Issue in the abolitionist movement
1
Lobbying
2.
o
First Group?
o
Second Group?
Building Support

National American Woman Suffrage Association

National Women’s Party
19th Amendment
o
Tactics and Protest?

Carrie Chapman Catt

Nineteenth Amendment
Answer: What progressive goals did suffragists believe they could achieve if women had the right
to vote?
Reforming Society

1.
2.
Advocate
Social-welfare Progressives
o
Demographics?
o
Main issues?
Child Labor

John Spargo’s The Bitter Cry of the Children

Results of the book?
Health and Safety Codes

Problems on the job?

Lochner v. New York (1905)

Muller v. Oregon (1908)

Triangle Shirtwaist Company
o
3.
Prohibition
18th Amendment
Progressive Responses to the tragedy?

Hadacheck v. Sebastian (1915)

Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon (1922)
The Prohibition Movement

Temperance/Prohibition

Women’s Christian Temperance Union
2
o

4.
Francis Willard
The Anti-Saloon League
Progressives Versus Big Business

Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

Socialism
o
Eugene Debs
Lesson 2- Roosevelt and Taft
Social Darwinism
Roosevelt Revives the Presidency

Trust Buster
Arbitration
1.
Roosevelt’s Beliefs?
Roosevelt Takes on the Trusts

Views on Trusts?

Northern Securities
o
Northern Securities v. United States (1904)
2. Northern Securities and the Commerce Clause

Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution
3. Coal Strike of 1902

United Mine Workers

Roosevelt’s Role?
4. Regulating Big Business

Department of Labor and Commerce

“Gentlemen’s Agreement”

Hepburn Act (1906)

Issues in Consumer Protection
o
Medication
o
Meat Packing


Upton Sinclair – The Jungle
Government Responses to the Issues?
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Environmental
Conservation

Meat Inspection Act?
Conservation
1.
Richard Ballinger
Western Land Development

Newlands Reclamation Act (1902)

Gifford Pinchot
o
US Forest Service
2. You Answer: What was Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy?
Insubordination
Taft’s Reforms
1.
Taft Angers Progressives

Academic
Taft’s Views on Tariffs?
o
Progressives
o
Conservative Republican’s
o
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
2. Taft’s Achievements
Direct Tax
Indirect Tax

Trustbuster?

Children’s Bureau

Bureau of Mines
Lesson 3 – The Wilson Years
The Election of 1912

Candidates and Parties?
1.
Wilson versus Roosevelt

Roosevelt’s Positions
o New Nationalism

Income Taxes
Wilson’s Positions
o New Freedom
Wilson’s Reforms
1.
Income Taxes and the 16th Amendment
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Unfair Trade
Practices

Article I, Section 2 of the US Constitution

Supreme Court decision on Income Taxes

The 16th Amendment

Revenue Act of 1913 (Underwood Act)
2. Reforming the Banks

Federal Reserve Act of 1913
o
Purpose
o
Significance
Unconstitutional
3. Antitrust Action
 Federal Trade Commission

Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
o
16th Amendment
Samuel Gompers views on the Act
4. Regulating Bug Business

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

Adamson Act

Federal Farm Loan Act
Progressivism’s Legacies and Limits
1.
New Roles for Government
 What new roles did the federal government take-on during the Progressive Era?
2. The Limits of Progressivism
 Most Significant limit?


W.E.B. DuBois
o Niagara Movement
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Anti-Defamation League
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