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Riis – Due 10/9 ( in class) – Matsuda OUT
10/16 – Study guide #2 out and on website
10/18 – NO CLASS!!
10/23 – Matsuda DUE
10/30 – Exam #2
Thanksgiving Break ...6 more weeks!!
HIST 202 – U.S. HISTORY
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Grew out of:
 Industrialization
 Immigration
 Urban Expansion
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Progressivism is
PROGRESS!!
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National movement
born out of state
reforms
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Progressive presidents:
 Theodore Roosevelt
 William Howard Taft
 Woodrow Wilson
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Country was changing
RAPIDLY!
 Industrialized
 Non-agrarian
 Melting pot of
immigrants
 Innocence was lost
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Participants were
extremely diverse:
 Women
 Liberal educators
 Early civil rights
crusaders
 Middle-class reformers
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Middle-class
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Shop owners
Lawyers
Doctors
Ministers
Religious
 Social Gospel
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Liberals
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Frederick W. Taylor
 Conducted research in
factories
 Timed output cycles
 Discovered ways to
organize people in
efficient manner
 Progressives…govt. can
be more efficient
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Made Americans wake
up!!
Origins
 Henry Demarest Lloyd
 Wealth Against
Commonwealth (1894)
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Magazines
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McClure’s
Collier’s
Cosmopolitan
Authors contributed stories
Books
 Lincoln Steffans – The
Shame of the Cities
 Jacob Riis – How the Other
Half Lives
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Reasons:
 Some stories were hard
to beat
 Magazines were asked to
tone down the stories
 Corporations had public
relation departments
 Legal problems
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Secret ballots
(“Australian Ballot”)
Direct election of
Senators – 17th
Amendment (1913)
Direct primaries
 Robert LaFollette (Wis.)
 Let the people decide
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Initiative
 Method that voters could compel legislators to
consider a bill
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Referendum
 Allowed voters to vote on the issue
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Recall
 Allowed voters to get rid of corrupt officials
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Settlement house
reformers
 Jane Addams
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Believed in social justice
Better schools
Better courts
Divorce laws
Criminal reform
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Get rid of political
machines and bosses
Get control of public
utilities
Voters elect city
managers and
commissioners
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Governors
 Battled with corporate
interests
 Fraudulent companies
 Corrupt railroads
 Tax reform
 Temperance – Wets v.
Drys
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
 March 25th 1911
 146 women perished in
flames
 71 injured
 Blamed poor working
conditions
 No fire plans
 Fire escapes were
damaged or locked!!!
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Progressivism shot into
gear under Teddy
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1902 Coal Strike
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Standard Oil trust
 “Bad trusts”
 “Good trusts”
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Consumer protection
 Pure Food and Drug Act
(1906)
 Meat Inspection Act (1906)
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Environmental protection
 Newlands Reclamation Act
(1902)
 U.S. Forest Service (1908)
 150 million acres of land for
parks
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Won election of 1908
 Defeated William
Jennings Bryan
 Busted the most trusts in
history
 U.S. Steel
 Angered Teddy
 Split Republican party
 Progressives
 Republicans
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Pledged “New Freedom”
Attacked the “triple wall
of privilege”
 Tariffs
 Underwood Tariff (1913)
 Banking
 Federal Reserve Act (1914)
 Trusts
 Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
 Federal Trade Commission
(1914)
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Riis – due tonight
10/11 – Study guide #2 and Matsuda OUT and on
website
10/18 – NO CLASS!!
10/23 – Matsuda DUE
10/30 – Exam #2
Thanksgiving Break ...5 more weeks!!
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2nd rate citizens
“Separate but equal”
Progressive presidents
paid little mind to
 Thought there were
more pressing issues
 Shared in the racist
sentiment
DuBois
Washington
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Mass migration of blacks
from South to northern
cities
 1910-1930
 Aided by the Urban League
(1911)
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Causes
 Deteriorating race conditions
 Crops decimated by boll
weevil
 Job opportunities in cities
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1905 – Niagara
Movement
 Dubois
 Met at Niagara Falls,
Canada
 1908 – NAACP
 1920 – 100,000 members
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Liberal thinkers educated
Wanted equal rights as
men
Suffragist Movement
 Carrie Chapman Catt –
National American Woman
Suffrage Assn. (NAWSA)
 Alice Paul – National
Woman’s Party
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Wilson was VERY
reluctant
1920 – guaranteed
women’s right to vote
Aided in women’s rights
for
 Property
 Divorce
 Birth control
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WWI ends
Progressivism
 Worried about the war
 Many reforms were in
place
 Reformers thought their
jobs were done