The Progressive Era
Chapter 9
Four Goals of Progressivism
Goal
Protecting Social Welfare
Promoting Moral
Improvement
Creating Economic Reform
Fostering Efficiency
Meaning
Example
• improve some of the harsh
conditions of industrialization
• help improve poor conditions
•YMCA opened libraries, sponsored
classes, built pools and courts
• Salvation Army opened soup kitchens,
instructed poor immigrants on middleclass values
• Florence Kelly helped pass laws to
improve the lives of women and children
• improve the personal behaviors
of groups to help improve their
lives.
•Women’s Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU) campaigned for prohibition
(banning of alcoholic beverages)
• opened schools for immigrants and
women
• fought for suffrage
• Eugene Debs formed the Socialist Party
• muckrakers (magazine journalists who
wrote about the corrupt side of business
and public life) exposed businesses such as
Rockefeller and Standard Oil Company
• questioned the capitalist
system (due to Panic of 1893)
• promoted/supported socialism
• criticized big business
• used experts and scientists to
make society and the workplace
more efficient
• focused on data that documented the high cost
of working hours on individuals and society
• break manufacturing tasks into smaller parts
• scientific management applied to factories
to see how fast tasks could be completed
• Henry Ford reduced the work day and paid
workers an affordable wage as an incentive
1. Describe the
setting of the
cartoon.
2. How is Carry
Nation portrayed
in this cartoon?
3. What is the
message of the
cartoon?
4. Do you think the
cartoonist had a
favorable or
unfavorable
opinion of this
prohibitionist?
Explain
Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Section 3
Additional Terms
 Meat inspection Act
 Pure Food and Drug Act
 conservation
 Sherman Antitrust Act
• called both sides to the W. H. to
negotiate
• threatened to take over mines
none
• Filed 44 law suits against trusts
under the Sherman Antitrust Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Urged Congress to strengthen the
Interstate Commerce Act (ICC)
• fought for passage of the Elkins and
Hepburn Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Elkins Act – cannot give or receive
rebates
• Hepburn Act – limited free passes
• appointed a commission to investigate
the meatpacking industry
• pushed for the passage of the Meat
Inspection Act
• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Promoted conservation of natural resources
• set aside thousands of acres of forest preserves, waterpower sites, wildlife sanctuaries, and national parks.
• named professional conservationist to head the U.S. Forest
Service
• promoted large-scale irrigation projects
• National Reclamation Act (Newlands
Act)
•Appointed and African American as head of
the Charleston, SC custom-house
• refused to dismiss and African American
postmistress in MS
• Invited Booker T. Washington to dinner
none
Changing Roles of Women
Section 2 and 5
Bell Ringer – 11/22/13
1.
2.
3.
What does this photograph show?
How does this photo show the importance of the invention of
bloomers?
Why would bloomers have been controversial during this period?
Women in the Work Force
 Women began to fulfill important roles outside the home
 Before
• marriage
• care for home and family
 After
• poorer women expected to work outside the home
• handle farm work
• work in factories (textile)
• higher educated women filled new skilled jobs
• Immigrants and African Americans worked as domestic servants
Leading Reform
 Increased attendance at women’s colleges
 Reform the workplace health and safety
 “social housekeeping”
 Formed suffrage organizations
 NACW (National Association of Colored Women)
 NAWSA (National
American Woman
Suffrage Association)
 Founded by Susan
B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
How to add an Amendment
Option 1
Option 2
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2.
2.
National Movement
Increased activism of local groups
1.
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Local groups formed made up of educated women
Door-to-door campaigns
Using bold strategies
2.
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Used heckling and other bold tactics towards gov. officials
Lucy Burns and Alice Paul organized round-the-clock picket
line, resulting in arrest, jailing, and hunger strike
National movement
3.
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Carrie Chapman Catt (President of NAWSA)
Believed in 5 principals (most importantly – gracious,
ladylike behavior)
Women Win
WWI – women’s efforts and contribution increased
Earned them the 19th Amendment – women granted suffrage
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Ratified in August 1920
Progressivism Under Taft
Section 4
Taft’s Presidency
What did Taft support during his presidency?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Republican Party Splits
Progressives
Why did they support or oppose
Taft?
What party did they form or
stay with?
Conservatives
1912 Election
Political Parties
 4 candidates ran from
different parties
Bull Moose Party
(Progressive Party)
2. Republican Party
3. Democratic Party
4. Socialist Party
1.
Your group will be assigned one of
the following parties. You will
complete the following tasks
and present to the class.
1. State your candidate
2. List what their candidate’s
platform issues

3.
Think about tariffs, big
business, women’s suffrage,
progressive reforms, etc.
Create a campaign ad in
support of your candidate
(cartoon, poster, etc)