the progressive era
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The Progressive EraState Standards 7.3, 7.6, and 7.9
ProgressivismProgressivism
A reform movement focused on improving living conditions, education, working conditions, stopping political corruption, and gain women the right to vote
Populist Party
Progressivism.Three Progressive Presidents
1. Teddy Roosevelt2. William Howard Taft3. Woodrow Wilson
Economic ReformsTheodore Roosevelt
Hates big business and its impact on the government
Sherman Anti-Trust Act Take legal action against
the country’s largest corporations
“The trustbuster”Conservation of
natural resourcesProtection of wildlife
Economic Reforms.William Howard Taft
Sixteenth Amendment Allowed Congress to
levy income taxes
Economic Reforms..Woodrow Wilson
Focused on labor and business “New Freedom”
Tariff reform and rules for banks
Federal Reserve Act Set up the Federal
Reserve Banking System Regulates the
nations money supply
Economic Reforms…Woodrow Wilson
Clayton Antitrust Act Used to break fight
against big businessKeating-Owen Child
Labor Act Forbade the sale of
products made by children across state lines
MuckrakersMuckrakers
Writers who attempted to expose abuses in business and corruption in politics by using their writing
Very important to the Progressive Movement
Their work helped educate the public about changes needed
Muckrakers.Ida Tarbell
History of the Standard Oil Company Brought the
company’s monopoly to light and eventually led to a government antitrust suit against the company
Muckrakers..Upton Sinclair
The Jungle Told of unsafe and
unsanitary conditions in meat processing plants
Causes public uproarPure Food and Drug Act
of 1906 Mandated safe and
sanitary conditions for food preparation and packing Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Put regulations on food
and medicines
Political Reform“Wisconsin Idea”
Proposed to use University professors to study problems and recommend solutions
Leads to the 17th AmendmentAllowed for the direct
election by the people of senators on a national level
Oregon SystemLeads to the direct election
of senators and a process with which to recall them
Women’s Suffrage (Giving women the right to vote)
Seneca Falls ConventionDeclaration of Sentiments
Drew upon the Declaration of Independence to articulate women’s rights
National Suffrage LeaguesElizabeth Cady StantonSusan B. AnthonyLucy StoneWorked through suffrage
leagues to securing the right to vote for women
Women’s Suffrage.Alice Paul
Mass MarchesHunger StrikesUsed to
demonstrate against a government that did not allow half of its population to vote
Women’s Suffrage..Tennessee
“The Perfect 36”Nineteenth Amendment
35 states had ratified this amendment to give women the right to vote
Tennessee was not one of them If Tennessee ratified the
amendment it would become the perfect 36th state
Governor Albert H. Roberts Holds an assembly to vote
on the amendment
Women’s Suffrage...Tennessee
Tennessee was the deciding state for Women’s Suffrage If Tennessee ratified the
amendment then it would become law
Harry Burn Legislator who vote to pass
the amendment because his mom told him to
Results in Tennessee giving women the right to vote
Women’s Suffrage….Female Leaders in
Progressive EraWomen’s Trade
Union League Lobbied for the 18th
amendment Prohibition- stop the
sale of alcohol
Settlement HousesHull House
Jane AddamsFormed to help
immigrants and the poor “settle into” American culture
Henry Street SettlementLillian Wald
New York’s lower east side
Taught immigrant women about health and hygiene
The Great MigrationPopulation Shift
Employment opportunities were opened in the North
African Americans leave the south for the North Nearly half a million
African Americans migrated north between 1916 and 1919
Urban areas during this time period
New YorkChicagoBoston
North East!
African American Cultural FiguresW.E.B. Du Bois
Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Black Nationalist Policy Believed African Americans should stay independent of white
Americans
Booker T. WashingtonAssimilation of blacks into white culture
Believed African Americans should be worked into white American culture “Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are Speech”
Marcus GarveySegregationist policies and revolutionary tactics