Politics

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Politics Progressivesin the Gilded Age

• 1877-1920

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The Gilded Age

• Mark Twain
• Superficial glitter new wealth
• forgettable presidents
• Causes of inaction
• Laissez Faire, campaign tactics, party patronage

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Campaign Strategy

• Close elections led to moderate cautious
  positions on issues
• Campaigns brass bands, parades, free beer, but
  LITTLE SUBSTANCE
• Voter loyalty ethnicity, religions, regional
  ties

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Political Machines

• NYC Boss Tweed Tweed Gang Democratic machine
• Republican NYS Senator Roscoe Conklin The
  Stalwarts

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Who were the Progressives?

• The Populist Party
• Suffragists
• Muckrakers
• Journalists, Novelists, Cartoonists,
  Photographers
• Temperance
• Anti-Imperialists

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Names to Know

• Upton Sinclair The Jungle
• Ida Tarbell History of Standard Oil
• Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Jane Adams Settlement House Movement
• Eugene Debs Socialist Party

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Goals of Progressivism

• End child labor
• Safe food drugs
• Peace?
• Womens rights, suffrage
• Limit power of trusts
• Aid for the poor
• Political Reform

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Jane Addams 1860 - 1935
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Jane Addams at Hull-House, 1927.
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IDA M. TARBELL, 1857-1944
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Upton Sinclair
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Victories for Progressives

• Pure Food Drug Act FDA
• 16th Amendment Congress can collect taxes on
  income
• 17th Amendment Direct Election of Senators
• 18th Amendment Prohibition of alcohol
• 19th Amendment Gave Women the Right to Vote

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Other important vocabulary

• Recall can vote to remove state officials
• Referendum citizens can vote directly for or
  against laws
• Initiative citizens can introduce bills to the
  legislatures
• Primary Election citizens vote for their
  partys candidate