Monday, 12/7/15
Write the following question below
in your notebooks and answer it,
after reading the handout:
• What is the main point
of the handout? Why?
Robert M. LaFollette,
Wisconsin Governor 1900-06
“Progressive Reform Era”
1890s
1917
1901
1920s
WHO were the “Progressives?”
- Middle class reformers
- Feared socialism &
wealthy capitalists
- Mexico, really, did not have a middle
class during the early 1900’s.
- ** How did this fact affect Mexican
society during the early 1900’s?
Theodore Roosevelt: the
• The “Bully
Pulpit”
** Video – Early years of
TR’s presidency (questions)
• Trust-buster
– Northern Securities
holding company (1902)
• 1902 Coal Strike &
arbitration
“accidental President”
Republican (1901-1909)
Write the following questions below in your
notebooks and answer it, working in smallgroups, and reading the textbook
(pages 298-99, 302, 304, 310-311):
• (1) What were the Progressive
Era reforms, listed on these
pages, meant to improve within
the lives of the working- and
middle-classes? How did they
benefit?
• (2) Could you argue we all today
benefit from these changes?
Why or why not?
Wednesday, 12/9/15
Questions I forgot to include on
the Study Guide, so make sure to write these down:
• ** (1) How does Theodore
Roosevelt change the American
Presidency: what were his
actions, and how these are
different from those of previous
presidents?
• ** (2) Summarize the impact of
the Progressive Era Reforms:
how do these reforms change
America, and is this socialism?
Why or why not?
“Progressive Era Reforms”
Are these
reforms
socialism?
Socialism vs.
Progressivism
• Regulation regarding child labor, workers’
compensation, limiting hours, zoning and
building codes
• Alcohol prohibition
• Hepburn Act (1906)
• Meat Inspection Act (1906)
• Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
• Environmental Conservation
• 16th Amendment – income tax
• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
K‐12.C.1 Students will explain, compare and contrast, and analyze the
historical principles and philosophical purposes and various forms of
governments.
Socialism vs. Progressivism
• Socialism is an economic system characterized by
government ownership or social ownership of land, goods,
resources and programs meant to “encourage” success by
many Americans.
– Redistribute wealth
– Abolish capitalism or remove certain sectors of the economy away
from the capitalist system
– Goal: Public management of production resources
• Progressivism in the U.S. is a political reform movement,
generally considered to be middle class and reformist in
nature.
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“Regulate” business
Support capitalism
Programs that help the working class
Goal: raise the standard of living of the average member of society
Reform at the City / State Level
Socialism?
• Child Labor – By 1929, every state banned children under 14
from working
• Workers’ Compensation – Starting in 1911, 10 states
passed laws requiring businesses to provide workers’ comp.
• Zoning Laws – divided cities into
commercial & residential sections
• Building Codes – safer standards
• Regulating Food and Drugs
Why the reform?
- Selections from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
– “They use everything about the hog except the
squeal.”
– “These rats were nuisances, and the packers would
put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and
then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers
together.”
– “[The] old sausage that had been rejected, and that
was moldy and white – it would be dosed with borax
and glycerine, and dumped, and made over again for
home consumption.”
Theodore Roosevelt: the
“accidental President”
Republican (1901-1909)
• Meat Inspection Act (1906)
– Federal Inspection of Meat-packing plants
& standards of cleanliness
• Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Socialism?
– Prohibited sale of impure drugs
• Hepburn Act (1906)
– Strengthens the I.C.C.
** Eliminated bribery used by railroads
Theodore Roosevelt: the • National Forest Service
“accidental President”
(1905)
Republican (1901-1909)
Socialism?
Conservationist
vs.
Preservationist
– Managing forest
resources
• Antiquities Act (1906)
– Protecting lands of historical &
scientific interest and prehistoric lands
– Gives the president “nearly-unfettered
discretion”
Socialism?
• Other protected habitats
- 51 bird sanctuaries
- 5 national parks
- 4 game refuges
- 18 national monuments
- 148 million acres of forest
reserves
- 80 million acres of protected
under the U.S. Geological Survey
CONSERVATION:
National Parks and Forests
Wilson’s Progressive Era Reforms
• Sixteenth
Amendment
(1913) – income tax,
new source of
revenue!!
• Federal Reserve
Act (1913)
• Federal Reserve
Banking System
Woodrow
Wilson
President 1913-21
Democrat
• Clayton AntiTrust Act (1914)
• Further regulated
businesses
• Allowed unions to exist
Wilson at the peak of his power
• Federal Reserve Act (1913)
The Federal Reserve System … es muy importante
Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy
• Federal Reserve strives to manage the money supply as well as
availability of credit with the goals of …
– Maximum employment
– Stable prices
– Moderate long-term interest rates
• (1) Open market operations – buying and selling securities,
U.S. bonds
• (2) The discount rate – interest charged other banks
• (3) Reserve requirements – keeping $$$ on hand