PROGRESSIVE ERA

REFORM

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Match the following

1. The goal was to break up monopolies and promote competition.

2. Required applicants to pass exams for government jobs.

3. Required Rail Roads to charge all customers the same rates.

4. Purchase of Alaska.

a. Pendleton Civil Service Act.

b. Seward’s Folly

c. Interstate Commerce Act (Interstate Commerce Commission)

d. Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Warm Up: Use page 383 to answer the following in your notebook

1.In what sections of the U.S. did Populism thrive?

2. Where did Populists have their roots?

3.To what did these new reformers react?

4.How did industrialization cost some members of society?

Progressive Beliefs“Government should”

1. Be more accountable to its

citizens

2. Protect workers & help the poor

Goals1. Moral improvement of society

2. Reduction of govt. corruption

3. Child labor laws

Writers & Reform

Muckrakers: Journalists

who uncover

wrongdoing in politics or business

Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle” exposes dangerous conditions in the meatpacking industry.

Henry George wanted to make land speculation less profitable by imposing a single tax on the value of land.

Their articles & books exposed corruption &

inspired many to join efforts for reform:

1. Lincoln Steffens

2. Ida Tarbell

3. Upton Sinclair

Reform OrganizationsLabor Movement

1. Employers discourage union membership

2. Injunctions-court orders prohibit certain

activities e.g strikes

Socialists1. Wanted to end capitalist system

2. Distribute wealth equally

3. Govt. ownership of American industries

Women ReformersFlorence Kelley:

Convinced states to abolish child laborAlong w/ Jane Addams worked to reform local labor conditions

Mother Jones:Organized unions in mines of WV & CO

Results of Triangle Factory Fire

1. 146 workers killed

2. New workplace protections

Expanded Role for Govt.

Social welfare programs:

Ensure minimum standard of living

Municipal Reform1. Aimed to end govt. corruption at city level

2. Favored city control of utilities

State Reforms:1.

Helped to end govt. corruption

2.Citizens gain more

political power

Power to Voters1. Direct primary- citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections

2. Initiative- citizens propose new laws

3. Referendum- allows citizens to approve/reject laws

4. Recall- voters remove public officials from office

Roosevelt & Reform

Record included:1. Conservation of land-

more than 200 million acres

2. Breakup of trusts

3. Regulation of food & drugs

TR's “Square Deal”1.

United Mine workers strike

2. TR demands arbitration

Taft &

Wilson

Conservationists:people who favor protection of the environment

Ballinger-Pinchot Affair

1. Management of public lands

2. Ballinger opposed conservation policies on

federal land

3. Pinchot-head of US Forest Service

Election of

1912

Taft

Roosevelt

Wilson

Debs

The Bull Moose Party“I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't

know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill

a Bull Moose.” TR1. Name comes from

TRcomment

2. Platform supported women's suffrage

Split in Rep. Party gives Wilson win

Wilson as President1. Clayton Antitrust Act

favored by labor unions

2. FTC given power to stop businesses

from unfair business tactics

The Federal Reserve 1.

Established to

reorganize federal bank

2. Created in response to

economic overhaul

Limits of Progressivis

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Focused mainly on:

1. Municipal problems

2. Problems of urban residents

3. African-Americans felt

ignored

4. Ended by World War I

Suffrage at LastEarly success

with some states allowingwomento vote

Arguments Against Suffrage

1. Would make women

“too masculine”

2. Easily manipulated

3. Distract from home

Susan B. Anthony

Civil disobedience:nonviolent refusal to

obey a law

Nations most famous suffragist

Arrested for insisting on voting

Split in campaign

caused by Alice Paul's aggressive military strategy

WWI

More Americans support suffrage

Blurred lines b/t men's & women's roles

Ended by passage of

19th Amendment