The Progressive Era

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Chapter 17

• The Progressive Era

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Four Goals of Progressives

• Protecting the Social Welfare
• Promoting moral improvements
• Creating economic reform
• Fostering efficiency

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Social Welfare

• Lessen some of working conditions
• YMCA
• Florence Kelly
• Soup Kitchens
• Slum Brigades

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Moral Improvements

• Prohibition
• 18th Amendment
• WCTU- Women's Christian Temperance Union
• Alcohol was the deterioration of America

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Confiscated Booze
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The first Bootlegger
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Economic Reform

• Eugene V. Debs Formed the socialist Party to
  unite the workers of America
• Muckraking
• Ida Tarbell attacks Rockefeller

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Fostering Efficiency

• Fredrick Taylor
• Taylorism
• Beginnings of Assembly line work
• How quickly a task could be performed

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Child Labor reform
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Child Labor draws to a close

• National Child Labor Committee
• Keating Owen Act 1916 Ended Child Labor

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Adult Labor Restrictions

• Muller vs. Oregon Limited the workday hours for
  women to ten hour work day
• Bunting vs. Oregon Limited the workday for men
  to ten hours

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Reforming Elections

• Initiative - bill originated by the people
• Referendum A vote on the Initiative
• Recall Ability to force public officials to
  face another election

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17th Amendment

• The direct election of Senators. This allows the
  Senator to be free from political corruption from
  political bosses

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Women reform

• Domestic workers
• Higher Education
• NACW Nation Association of Colored Women
• Susan B. Anthony
• Suffrage 19th Amendment

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Upton Sinclair
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1901 Theodore Roosevelt wins the Presidency
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Theodore Roosevelt

• Rough Rider
• Governor of New York
• Secretary of Navy
• Vice president

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Rough Riders/ San Juan Hill
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Roosevelts Political Platform

• The Square Deal

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Trust busting
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Coal Miners Strike

• More Money
• Fewer hours
• The Right to unionize
• President had the right to step in

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Railroad Regulation

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Interstate Commerce Commission
• Hepburn Act limited the free passes issued by
  railroads and established the principle that the
  government had the right to establish RR fares

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Health and Environment

• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Conservation

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Meat Inspection Act

• Sparked By Sinclairs The Jungle
• Cleanliness requirements

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Pure Food and Drug Act

• Halted sale of contaminated food
• called for truth in labeling

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Conservation
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National Parks Service
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Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy) was an avid sportsman,
Loved to hunt and fish. On one excursion allowed
a baby bear to go free, Toy makers made the
stuffed animal called
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The Teddy Bear
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NAACP

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People
• Leaders from the Niagara Falls Convention form
  with white civil rights leaders
• 6,000 members

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1909 William Taft
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William Howard Taft

• Payne-Aldrich Tariff

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1912 Woodrow Wilson
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Election of 1912

• Democrats won
• Woodrow Wilson
• The last of the Progressive Presidents

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Wilsons Accomplishments

• Clayton Anti-trust Act
• Prohibits one company buying the stock of another
  company if doing so would create a monopoly
• Federal Trade Commission
• Established a watchdog agency to monitor
  companies trading practices
• Federal Reserve
• 19th Amendment
• Carrie Chapman Catt