Alan Brinkley,
The Unfinished Nation 6/e
Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
The Progressive Impulse
Belief in Progress
“Antimonopoly”
Faith in Knowledge
– The Muckrakers and the Social Gospel
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The Progressives
The Progressive Impulse
– The Settlement House Movement
Jane Addams and Hull House
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The Progressives
The Progressive Impulse
– The Allure of Expertise
– The Professions
Lawyers’ Club in New York
(Library of Congress)
American Medical
Association
National Association
of Manufacturers
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
The Progressive Impulse
– Women and the Professions
Women Stenographers
(Library of Congress)
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The Progressives
Women and Reform
Key Role of Women in Reform Causes
– The “New Woman”
“Boston Marriages”
– The Clubwomen
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Women’s Trade Union League
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The Progressives
The Colored Women’s
League of Washington
(Library of Congress)
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The Progressives
Women and Reform
– Woman Suffrage
Radical Challenge of Woman Suffrage
NAWSA
Nineteenth Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment
Suffragette Banner
(Library of Congress)
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The Progressives
The Assault on the Parties
Reforming Government
– Early Attacks
– Municipal Reform
City-Manager Plan
9
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The Progressives
The Assault on the Parties
– Statehouse Progressivism
Initiative and Referendum
Direct Primary and Recall
Robert La Follette
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The Progressives
The Assault on the Parties
– Parties and Interest Groups
Decline of Party Influence
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The Progressives
Sources of Progressive Reform
– Labor, the Machine,
and Reform
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
– Western Progressives
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
(Library of Congress)
12
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The Progressives
Sources of Progressive Reform
– African Americans and Reform
NAACP Founded
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The Progressives
“Is it possible and probable that nine millions
of men can make effective progress in
economic lines if they are deprived of political
rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only
the most meager chance for developing their
exceptional men?”
W. E. B. Du Bois
14
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The Progressives
Crusades for Social Order and Reform
– The Temperance Crusade
WCTU
Eighteenth Amendment
– Immigration Restriction
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Crusades for Social Order and Reform
– The Dream of Socialism
Eugene Debs
“Wobblies”
Socialism’s Demise
– Decentralization and Regulation
“Good Trusts” and “Bad Trusts”
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Assassination of McKinley
(Library of Congress)
17
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern
Presidency
– The Accidental President
Roosevelt’s Vision
of Federal Power
Northern Securities
Company
Theodore Roosevelt in
Hunting Attire
(Library of Congress)
18
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern
Presidency
– “The Square Deal”
Hepburn Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Advertising The Jungle
(Library of Congress)
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The Progressives
Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern
Presidency
– Roosevelt and the
Environment
Competing
Conservationist
Visions
Theodore Roosevelt and
John Muir in Yosemite
(Library of Congress)
20
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The Progressives
Establishment of National Parks and Forests
21
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern
Presidency
– Panic and Retirement
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
22
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
The Troubled Succession
William Howard Taft
– Taft and the
Progressives
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute
William Howard Taft
(Library of Congress)
23
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The Progressives
Troubled Succession
– The Return of Roosevelt
“New Nationalism”
– Spreading Insurgency
– Roosevelt versus Taft
The Progressive Party
(Taft has) “…completely twisted around the
policies I advocated and acted upon.”
Theodore Roosevelt
24
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
– Woodrow Wilson
Wilson’s
“New Freedom”
Election of 1912
25
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
– The Scholar as President
Lowering the Tariff
Federal Reserve Act
– Retreat and Advance
Child-Labor Laws
Woodrow Wilson
(Library of Congress)
26
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
Debating the Past:
Progressivism
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Chapter Twenty:
The Progressives
America in the World:
Social Democracy
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