1. 1890 to 1917
âProgressives were
reformers who attempted to
solve problems caused by
industry, growth of cities
and laissez faire.â
2. Progressives wereProgressives were
ďś White Protestants
ďśMiddle class and native born.
ďśCollege Educated Professionals
ďśSocial workers
ďśScholars
ďśPoliticians
ďśPreachers
ďśTeachers
ďśWriters
3. Reform = Progress
ď§Always possible and good
ď§Progress not inevitable but blocked by
ignorance and corruption
ď§Everyone / everything can be improved
ď§Traditions = automatically suspect
ď§Experts can ALWAYS find one best way
ď§Education & Purity always = progress.
ď§Mission = Progress for world
4. When did the movement begin?When did the movement begin?
â˘Farmers organize during the 1870âs
â˘The Grangeâ1867---local level
â˘Farmerâs Alliance---state level
â˘Populist Party--national level
Peopleâs Party
5. Adopt Populist IdeasAdopt Populist Ideas
â˘Move away from laissez faire with
government regulating industry
â˘Make US government responsive to the
people (voting)
â˘Limit power of the political bosses.
â˘Improve workerâs rights, conditions for
poor and immigrants
â˘Clean up the cities
â˘End segregation and Jim Crow
7. Areas to ReformAreas to Reform
Social Justice
Political Democracy
Economic Equality
Conservation
8. Social JusticeSocial Justice
Improve working
conditions in industry,
regulate unfair
business practices,
eliminate child labor,
help immigrants and
the poor
10. Economic JusticeEconomic Justice
â˘Fairness and opportunity in
the work world, regulate
unfair trusts and bring about
changes in labor.
â˘Demonstrate to the
common people that U.S.
Government is in charge and
not the industrialists.
12. â˘Muckrakers were journalists and
photographers who exposed the
abuses of wealth and power.
â˘They felt it was their job to write
and expose corruption in industry,
cities and government.
Progressives exposed corruption
but offered no solutions.
MUCKRAKERSMUCKRAKERS
13. â˘They believed that if the public
could only see or read for itselfâŚ..
â˘There would be an outcry and
people would want to help make
conditions betterâŚ..
â˘Or demand the government to
make reforms.
ââDigging up the dirtâDigging up the dirtâ ==
Investigative Journalism
15. Muck
raker
Work Subject Results
Thomas
Nast
Political
Cartoons
Political
corruption by
NYC's political
machine,
Tammany Hall, led
by Boss Tweed.
Tweed was
convicted of
embezzlement and
died in prison.
Jacob
Riis
John
Spargo
How the Other
Half Lives
(1890)
The Bitter Cry of
the Children
Living conditions of the
urban poor; focused on
tenements.
Child labor in the
factories and education
for children.
NYC passed building
codes to promote safety
and health.
Ending child labor and
increased enrollment in
schooling.
Muck
raker
Work Subject Results
Investigated
dangerous working
conditions and
unsanitary procedures
in the meat-packing
industry.
The Jungle
(1906)
Upton
Sinclair
In 1906 the Meat
Inspection Act and
Pure Food and Drug
Act were passed
16. Upton Sinclairs, The Jungle, exposed the filthy,
unsanitary working conditions and corruption in a
meatpacking company in Chicago
17.
18.
19. President Roosevelt
proposed legislation
to clean up the
meatpacking
industry after
reading The Jungle.
Food and Drug ActFood and Drug Act
Meat Inspection ActMeat Inspection Act
20. â˘Reading The Jungle, TR
brought about reform in
proposing and signing into
law the Meat Inspection Act,
1906
â˘All meat sold must
inspected
â˘Must be marked by Federal
inspectors and graded.
â˘Meat industry cleaned up.
â˘Fish is regulated.
21. â˘Pure Food and Drug
Act, 1906
â˘Federal inspection to all
packaged foods and drugs.
â˘Labels with medicine as well
as food.
â˘Contents of food and drug
packages must be listed
â˘All additives/chemicals
must be listed on labels.
â˘FDAFDA today or Food and Drug
Administration
28. John Spargo: The Bitter Cry of the ChildrenJohn Spargo: The Bitter Cry of the Children
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37. Jane
Addams
SOCIAL GOSPEL
Pioneer in the field of social work
who founded the settlement
house movement through the
establishment of Hull House in
Chicago, Illinois.
Margaret
Sanger
Educated urban poor about the
benefits of family planning through
birth control. She founded the
organization that became Planned
Parenthood.
Social Reformers
38. â˘To provide a center for
higher civic and social
life; to institute and
maintain educational
and philanthropic
enterprises.
â˘To investigate and
improve the conditions
in the industrial
districts of Chicago.
â˘To help assimilate the
immigrant population
â˘To provide a center for
higher civic and social
life; to institute and
maintain educational
and philanthropic
enterprises.
â˘To investigate and
improve the conditions
in the industrial
districts of Chicago.
â˘To help assimilate the
immigrant population
RUN BY COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMENRUN BY COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMEN
provide educational, cultural, social
services
send visiting nurses to the sick
help with personal, job, financial
problems
39. â˘In 1889, the
settlement house
movement spread
rapidly.
â˘By 1900 more
than 400 houses
had been
established in
major cities across
the country.
40. Hiram Johnson---Governor of Calif.
â˘Workerâs compensation
â˘State insurance supported workers
injured on the job.
Robert La Follette---Gov. of Wisconsin
â˘Wisconsin Idea = La Follette Plan
â˘Taxes on incomes and corporations
41. 16th
Amendment: Income Tax (1913)
Progressive income tax assigned higher tax
rates to people with higher incomes.
42. 1818thth
Amendment:Amendment:
Prohibition (1919)
Banned manufacture
and sale of alcoholic
beverages
â˘Movement begins at the local, state levels and
eventually effects the national levelâŚ..
â˘WCTU or Womenâs Christian Temperance Union
founded in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio
â˘Frances Willard
â˘Carrie Nation
â˘Anna Howard Shaw
â˘Anti-Saloon League
43. Muck
raker
Work Subject Results
Frank
Norris
The Octopus
(1901)
This fictional
book exposed
monopolistic
railroad
practices in
California.
In Northern
Securities v.
U.S. (1904), the
holding
company
controlling
railroads in the
Northwest was
broken up.
Ida
Tarbell
"History of
Standard Oil
Company" in
McClure's
Magazine
(1904)
Exposed the
ruthless tactics of
the Standard Oil
Company through
a series of articles
published in
McClure's
Magazine.
In Standard Oil
v. U.S. (1911),
the company
was declared a
monopoly and
broken up.
44. Social Reformers
Booker T.
Washington
Former slave who founded the Tuskegee
Institute that focused on teaching
African-Americans trade skills to earn a
living and gain the trust of white society.
Muck
raker
Work Subject Results
Provided statistics on
the lynching of
African-Americans.
NAACP joined the
fight for Federal anti-
lynching legislation.
45. City
Commissione
r Plan
Cities hired experts in different
fields to run a single aspect of city
government. For example, the
sanitation commissioner would be
in charge of garbage and sewage
removal.
City Manager
Plan
A professional city manager is hired
to run each department of the city
and report directly to the city
council.
City Reforms
46. RecallRecall
Allows voters to petition to have an
elected representative removed
from office.
Initiative
Allows voters to petition state
legislatures in order to consider a
bill desired by citizens.
Referendum
Allows voters to decide if a bill or
proposed amendment should be
passed.
Ensures that voters select
candidates to run for office, rather
than party bosses.
State Reforms
Secret BallotSecret Ballot
Privacy at the ballot box ensures
that citizens can cast votes without
party bosses knowing how they
voted.
Direct PrimaryDirect Primary
47. ď§Given out only at the
polls
ď§Vote in secret
ď§Printed at public
expense
ď§Lists names of all
candidates and their
parties
48. CaucusCaucus---small group of individuals who
would choose a candidate
ConventionConvention---members from the
political parties nominate a candidate
Direct PrimaryDirect Primary---allow registered voters
to participate in choosing a candidate
1790 to 18281790 to 1828
1828 to 19001828 to 1900
Current SystemCurrent System
UsedUsed
51. Preparing the Way for Suffrage
ďŽ American women activists first demanded the right to
vote in 1848 at the Seneca Falls ConventionSeneca Falls Convention in New
York.
ďŽ The movement eventually split into two groups:
ďŽ The National Woman Suffrage Association fought
for a constitutional amendment for suffrage.
ďŽ The American Woman Suffrage Association worked
to win voting rights on the state level.
ďŽ In 1890, WyomingWyoming entered the union and became the
first state to grant women the right to vote.
ďŽ In 1872, in an act of civil disobedience, a suffrage
leader, Susan B. Anthony, insisted on voting in
Rochester, New York. She was arrested for this act.
52. Suffragist Strategies
Constitutional Amendment
ďŽ Winning suffrage by a
constitutional amendment
ďŽ The first federal amendment
was introduced in Congress
in 1868 and stalled.
ďŽ In 1878, suffragists
introduced a new
amendment.
ďŽ Stalled again, the bill was not
debated again until 1887. It
was defeated by the Senate.
ďŽ The bill was not debated
again until 1913.
Individual State Suffrage
ďŽ Winning suffrage state by
state
ďŽ State suffrage seemed more
successful than a
constitutional amendment.
ďŽ Survival on the frontier
required the combined efforts
of men and women and
encouraged a greater sense of
equality.
ďŽ Western states were more
likely to allow women the
right to vote.
NWSANWSA AWSAAWSA
53. ďŽ Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, leaders of the
suffrage movement, died without
seeing the victory of womenâs
suffrage.
ďŽ At the turn of the century, Carrie
Chapman Catt became the leader
of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association
(NAWSA).
ďŽ She led the movement from 1900 to
1904 and again after 1915.
ďŽ In March 1913 Alice Paul and Lucy
Burns organized a parade of 5,000
women in Washington, D.C.
A New Generation
Womenâs Suffrage
56. Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, it used
educational, social, and political means to promote
legislation which dealt with issues ranging from
health and hygiene, prison reform and world peace.
protection of women and children at home and work
women's right to vote
shelters for abused women
support from labor movements such as the Knights of Labor
the eight-hour work day
equal pay for equal work
founding of kindergartens
assistance in founding of the PTA
federal aid for education
stiffer penalties for sexual crimes against girls and women
uniform marriage and divorce laws
57. Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, it used
educational, social, and political means to promote
legislation which dealt with issues ranging from
health and hygiene, prison reform and world peace.
prison reform, police matrons and women police officers
homes and education for wayward girls
pure food and drug act
legal aid
world peace
Opposed and worked against
the drug traffic
the use of alcohol and tobacco
white slavery and child labor
army brothels
58. Most successful work was in alerting the nation of the evils of
alcohol and promoting legislation to outlaw it.
â˘Passage of the 1818thth
AmendmentAmendment in 1919 to outlaw alcohol.
59. Most successful and
well known WCTU
reformer was Carrie
Nation.
She would march into
a bar and sing and pray,
while smashing bar
fixtures and stock with
a hatchet.
60.
61. National
Reclamation Act
(1902)
Roosevelt
Encouraged conservation by
allowing the building of dams and
irrigations systems using money
from the sale of public lands.
Elkins Act
(1903)
Roosevelt
Outlawed the use of rebates by
railroad officials or shippers.
Pure Food and
Drug Act
(1906/1911)
Roosevelt
Required that companies
accurately label the ingredients
contained in processed food
items.
Meat Inspection
Act
(1906)
Roosevelt
In direct response to Upton
Sinclair's The Jungle, this law
required that meat processing
plants be inspected to ensure the
use of good meat and health-minded
procedures.
Progressive Era Federal Legislation
62. Progressive Era Federal Legislation
Hepburn Act
(1906)
Roosevelt
Strengthened the Interstate
Commerce Commission, allowing
it to set maximum railroad rates.
Federal Reserve
Act
(1913)
Wilson
Created 12 district Federal Reserve Banks,
each able to issue new currency and loan
member banks funds at the prime interest
rate, as established by the Federal Reserve
Board.
Clayton
Antitrust Act
(1914)
Wilson
Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act
by outlawing the creation of a monopoly
through any means, and stated that
unions were not subject to antitrust
legislation.
Federal Trade
Act
(1914)
Wilson
Established the Federal Trade Commission,
charged with investigating unfair business
practices including monopolistic activity
and inaccurate product labeling.
63. Underwood
Tariff
1913
Wilson
Substantially reduced import fees and enacted a
graduated income tax (under the approval of the
recent 16th
Amendment
Keating-
Owen
Act
1916
Wilson
Wilsonâs New Freedom
Enacted by U.S. Congress which sought to address theEnacted by U.S. Congress which sought to address the
perceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale inperceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in
interstate commerce of goods manufactured byinterstate commerce of goods manufactured by
children. Signed into law by President Wilson. Actchildren. Signed into law by President Wilson. Act
declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Courtdeclared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court
64. ďśThomas Nast was the artist for
Harper's Weekly in the late
1800âs.
ďś "He has been called, the
Father of American Caricature."
ďśNast's campaign against New
York City's political boss
William Tweed is legendary
ďśNast's cartoons depicted
Tweed as a sleazy criminal
ďśTweed was known to say,
"Stop them damn pictures.
I don't care what the
papers write about me. My
constituents can't read.
But, damn it, they can see
the pictures."