Progressivism 18901920

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Progressivism1890-1920

• Chapter 21

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Progressive Reformers

• Progressive beliefs / conservative direction
• - the array of disgust/ need for change
• Progressive reformers
• - muckraker- reporters
• - robber barons ghettos
• Increase in newspaper and magazine circulation

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Rise of Progressivism

• Large middle-class movement
• - pressured government
• - cut down on corruption
• - deal with trusts (power in the hands of
  the few)
• - movement centered around exposed abuses
  inequality

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Progressive change

• Settlement houses
• - Jane Addams (1889)
• - care for poor immigrants
• - more than 400 models established
• Prohibition of alcohol
• - many pubs shut down

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Political Reform in state govt

• Corrupt party bosses (A-3)
• (trusts-money-boss-senator-legislation)

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Restoring Sovereignty to the People

• 17th amendment (1913)- election of senators (A-8)
  
• recall check on public officials
• helped ensure honest politicians strengthened
  power of voters

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Voting laws

• voting- a precious benefit
• open vs. secret ballot (1890s)
• register to vote laws (1890s)
• - excluded corrupt
• - also excluded hardworking people
• disenfranchisement
• - difficult becoming a US citizen
• - southern Jim Crow laws
• - voting inequality
• - decline in voting (p 545)

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Women Suffrage

• 1890- NAWSA- Natl American Woman Suffrage Assoc.
• - led by Susan B. Anthony/ Eliz Stanton
• Wyoming in 1890- women right to vote
• Womens vote would cleanse democracy
• National movement
• protest of white house (Alice Paul)
• - arrest / hunger strikes
• 19th amendment / 1920

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African American Progressivism

• policies of Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Niagara Falls Movement (1905)
• - right to vote / abolition of segregation
• rise of the NAACP (1910)
• - beginning of modern civil rights movement
• - thousands join NAACP by 1914

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Presidential Agenda

• McKinley / Roosevelt ticket in 1900
• What happened to McKinley in Sept 1901?
• Roosevelt becomes youngest chief executive in US
  history

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Teddy Roosevelt

• outdoorsman / combat veteran
• breaking up trusts
• - dissolved Northern Securities Com
• regulation of Industries / expansion of powers
• - fix the ICC act of 1887
• - pure food drug act
• - meat Inspection Act (1906)/ The Jungle
• - preservation of natl parks

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The Taft Presidency

• Teddys decision not to seek reelection in 1908
• Roosevelt endorsed his secretary of war
• William H. Taft
• How did Taft view politics?
• promoted dollar diplomacy (p 581)
• - substitute bullets for dollars
• Roosevelt displeased w/ Taft (1910)
• Roosevelt campaigned against Taft
• Bull-Moose Party split Republican party

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Rise of Woodrow Wilson

• Well educated / President of Princeton
• Governor of New Jersey (1910)
• Election of 1912
• - republican party split
• - Taft barely campaigned
• - democrats best chance in 20 years

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Presidential election, 1912
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Federal Reserve Act

• Federal Reserve Act (1913)
• established 12 regional banks, which make loans
  to member banks
• established Federal Reserve Board
• strengthened nations financial market

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The twelve federal reserve districts
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Wilson Administration

• 1st federal workmens compensation bill
• 1st federal law outlawing child labor
• 1st federal law guaranteeing 8-hr work day
• Wilson cared as much about the powerless as
  powerful
• strengthened image of democratic party
• won reelection in 1916

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Conclusion

• Progressives accomplishments enfranchised women,
  reform local natl govt
• enlarged executive branch (p 558)
• emergence of new natl govt
• - power directed toward Washington