Who is this lady and what did she stand for???

• 20% of Males between 25 and 34 are now living where?
– At home
• One out of seven Americans have ten of these.
What are they?
– Credit Cards
• Every state in the U.S. has a city with this name. What is it?
– Lincoln

What does the word “Progressive” mean?

Progressives urged the government to:
1.
Distribute Wealth Equally
1.
Protect Social Welfare
1.
Promoting Moral Improvements
1.
Creating Economic Reform and Stop Unfair Business
Practices
1.
Reduce government corruption
1.
Fostering Efficiency

People/Groups Involved
• YMCA, Salvation Army,
Settlement Houses, Hull
House, etc…
• Jane Adams, Florence Kelly, etc…
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
• Created a variety of public services

People/Groups Involved
• Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union, Anti-
Saloon League
• Frances Willard, Carey
Nation, etc…
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
• Prohibition adopted by many town and state governments
• 18 th Amendment
(Prohibition)

People/Groups Involved
• American Socialist Party,
Muckrakers
• Eugene Debs, Ida Tarbell, etc…
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
• Exposed corruption in different industries
• Equal distribution of wealth
• 16 th Amendment (Income
Tax)

People/Groups Involved
• Ford Motor Company
• Fredrick Winslow Taylor,
Henry Ford, etc…
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
• Ford Assembly Line, the
“Five Dollar Day”, Scientific
Management

People/Groups Involved
• National Child Labor
Committee
• Louis Brandeis, Florence
Kelly, Josephine Goldmark, etc…
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
• Keating-Owen Act, Workers
Compensation, 10 hour workday for women and men

People/Groups Involved
• Commissions, City Councils
• Hazen Pingree, Tom
Johnson (Socialists)
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
• Property taxes, public ownership of utilities and transportation, as well as other economic reforms

People/Groups Involved
• Robert M. La Follette, James
Hogg, etc…
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
• Laws regulating railroads, and end government corruption because of relationships with Big
Business

People/Groups Involved
• William S. U’Ren
Successes (laws, legal decisions, etc…)
• Secret Ballot, Initiative,
Referendum, recall, direct primary, and the 17 th
Amendment (direct election of senators)

Chapter 17 Sec 2

What types of jobs were women in each group likely to hold?
Lower Class
• Agricultural, domestic and manufacturing
Middle and Upper Class
• White-collar jobs (book keepers, stenographers, operators, etc…)

What types of jobs were women in each group likely to hold?
African Americans
• Agricultural and domestic
Immigrants
• Agricultural, domestic, piecework, taking in boarders, and manufacturing

How did educational opportunities for middle-and upper-class women change?
• New women’s colleges established

How did these new opportunities affect the lives of middle-and upper-class women?
• Marriage was no longer a woman’s only alternative
• Offered opportunity to pursue a profession
• Allowed to devote oneself to reform movement

What three strategies were adopted by the suffragist to win the vote?
1. Tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote
2. Pursued court cases to test the 14 th Amendment
3. Campaigned for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote
What results did each strategy produce?
1. Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho granted women the vote (other states it failed)
2. The Supreme Court ruled that women were citizens, but that citizenship did not automatically confer the right to vote
3. It was always voted down

T.R./TAFT/WILSON

 Big Business
 Enforced Sherman Anti-Trust Act (49
Cases)
 Hepburn Act (Interstate Commerce
Commission)
 Federal Reforms
 “Square Deal”=progressive reforms to even the playing field
 Negotiated deals b/t workers and owners
(ex: coal strike 1902)
 Meat Inspection Act /Pure Food and Drug
Act
 Conservation
 National Reclamation Act (1902) Set aside
200 million acres of land
 U.S. Forest Service (1905)
 Civil Liberties
 Women
 Supported Women Suffrage
 Race
 Failed to truly endorse African
Americans
 Invited Booker T Washington to the
White House

 Big Business
 Enforced Sherman Anti Trust Act (90 cases)
 Lowered Tariffs slightly (Payne Aldrich
Act)
 Federal Reforms
 Supported Labor
 Department of Labor
 Conservation
 Allowed private business group to obtain several millions of acres of
Alaskan public land (angered conservationists)
 Reserved more land then T.R.
 Civil Liberties
 Women
 Supported Suffrage
 Race
 Talked about issues but did nothing for African Americans

• Big Business
– Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• Federal Reforms
– 16 th Amendment=income tax
– Federal Trade Commission
– Federal Reserve System
– Supported strikes, picketing, and boycotts
• Conservation
– Signed the National Park Service Bill
(1916)
• Civil Liberties
– Women
• Lightly supported Suffrage
– Race
• Extended Jim Crow Laws
• Endorsed “Birth of a Nation”

What were the reasons for these “Progressive” movements?
To address the problems that had contributed to the social upheavals of the 1890’s

Candidate party
Popular
Vote
Woodrow Wilson Democrat 6,296,000
Bull Moose 4,118,000 Teddy Roosevelt
William Taft Republican 3,486,000
Eugene Debs Socialist 900,000
%
42% (435)
27% (88)
23% (8)
6% (0)

Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican Ticket

Date
1890
1905
1906
1906
1913
Legislation Purpose
Sherman Anti-
Trust Act
United States
Forest Service
Meat inspection
Act
Outlawed monopolies and unfair business practices
Create to manage nation’s water and timber resources
Required federal inspection of meat processing to ensure clean conditions
Outlawed dishonest labeling of food and drugs
Pure Food and
Drug Act
Department of
Labor
Cabinet department created to promote welfare of working people