The Progressive Era

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The Progressive Era

• Chapter 21

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Reform

• Political Corruption
• Bribes
• Kickbacks
• Spoils System
• Pendleton Act
• Exams for Federal Jobs

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Muckrakers

• Investigative reporters undercover
• The Jungle
• Chicagos meat packing industry
• Nellie Bly
• Pretended to be insane and entered an asylum
• Lewis Hines
• Took pictures of child laborors

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Changes in Politics

• Robert Fighting Bob LaFollette
• Wisconsin Idea
• Direct primary
• Oregon
• Referendum and Recall
• 17th Amendment
• Direct election of Senators

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The New Woman

• Changes
• Smaller families
• Family away from home more
• Easier Housework
• Results
• Higher Education
• Professionals

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Womens Clubs

• Classes
• Recreational Activities
• Social Services
• Womens Rights
• Equal Rights

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Suffrage

• Suffragists
• Fighting for the right to vote

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Opposition

• Upset societys natural balance
• Lead to divorce and neglect of children
• Gained right state by state
• 19th Amendment passed in
• 1920

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Working for Reform

• Supported and staffed
• Libraries, schools, settlement houses
• Raised money for charity
• Sponsored laws regulating labor for women and
  children
• Reforms in food and medicine industry
• Pensions for widows and single mothers

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Temperance Crusade

• Supported Prohibition
• laws banning the making or selling of alcohol

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18th Amendment

• Prohibition Law
• Ratified in 1919
• Social reasons, moral reasons, health reasons

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Theodore Roosevelt

• McKinleys VP
• Assassinated
• Youngest president to date

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William Howard Taft

• Passed 16th Amendment
• Legalized income taxes

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Woodrow Wilson

• Tariff Reform
• Federal Reserve Act
• Federal Trade Commission

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Discrimination

• Anti-Catholic
• Anti-Semitic
• Anti-Asian
• Anti-African-American
• Anti-Mexican American
• Racial Violence