The Progressive Movement

THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTChapter 8

Section 1The Roots of Progressivism

The Rise of Progressivism

Who were the Progressives? Urban Middle-class

Americans Journalists Social workers Educators Politicians Clergymen

The Rise of Progressivism

The Muckrakers Ida Tarbell and

Standard Oil Jacob Riis wrote

“How the Other Half Lives”

Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle”

Reforming Government

Making Government Efficient A commission plan A council-manager

system

Reforming Government

Democratic Reforms La Follette’s

Laboratory of Democracy Robert M. La Follette

Direct primary Initiative Referendum Recall

Reforming Government

Democratic Reforms Direct Election of

Senators 17th amendment

Suffrage

Early Problems Seneca Falls, New

York- 1848 Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady

Stanton

Suffrage

Early Problems 14th amendment 15th amendment

Suffrage

Building Support NAWSA Alice Paul Carrie Chapman

Catt 19th amendment

Reforming Society

Child Labor John Spargo wrote

“The Bitter Cry of the Children” 60 cents for 10 hours

of work in the coal mine

Reforming Society

Health and Safety Codes Triangle Shirtwaist

Company

Reforming Society

The Prohibition Movement Temperance

movement WCTU Prohibition

Reforming Society

Progressives vs. Big Business Big businesses

need regulation Interstate

Commerce Commission

Section 2Roosevelt and Taft

Roosevelt Revives the Presidency Roosevelt Takes on

the Trusts Square Deal Roosevelt becomes

known as a trustbuster and takes on J.P. Morgan

Roosevelt Revives the Presidency

The Coal Strike of 1902 United Mine

Workers go on strike

arbitration

Roosevelt Revives the Presidency Regulating Big

Business Department of

Commerce and Labor

Hepburn Act

Roosevelt Revives the Presidency

Consumer Protection Checking out cures Upton Sinclair

writes “The Jungle” Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug

Act USDA

Conservation

Western Land Development

Gifford Pinchot Roosevelt’s Legacy

Taft’s Reforms

The Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Ballinger vs. Pinchot Ballinger replaces

James Garfield as Secretary of the Interior.

Pinchot is fired for insubordination.

Taft’s Reforms

Taft’s Achievements Children’s bureau Trustbuster

Section 3“The Wilson Years”

The Election of 1912

Pick the Candidates Progressive party

Nicknamed the Bull Moose Party

The Election of 1912

Wilson vs. Roosevelt New Nationalism New Freedom

Wilson’s Reforms

Reforming Tariffs Wilson appears

before Congress (1st President to do so since John Adams).

Wilson lowers tariffs.

Wilson’s Reforms

Reforming the Banks Federal Reserve Act

Wilson’s Reforms

Antitrust Action Federal trade

commission Clayton Antitrust

Act

Wilson’s Reforms

Regulating Business Keating-Owen Child

Labor Act Prohibits employment

of children under the age of 14

But Congress declares it unconstitutional.

Progressivism’s Legacy and Limits

A New Kind of Government

Progressivism’s Legacy and Limits The Limits of

Progressivism W.E.B. Dubois met

at the Niagara Movement in 1905. The 1st attempt at

civil rights NAACP-1909