The Progressive Movement Unit 9 Chapters 31-33

Progressive Movement Idea = return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life Roots???? Goals –Protect social welfare –Promote moral improvement –Create economic reform –Foster efficiency –Political reform

Progressive Movement GOALS 1.Protecting social welfare Settlement houses, soup kitchens, YMCA 2.Promoting moral reform Prohibition 3.Creating economic reform Muckrakers – journalists who wrote about corrupt business and politics 4.Fostering efficiency Scientific management Assembly line production 5.Election reform

Settlement Houses Assimilation, Education, Independence

Who Will Help?

Crowded?

PROHIBITIONPROHIBITION Issues: Unemployment Domestic violence Abandonment Are there other reasons? Immigration? Social class? Morality?

Muckrakers Defenders of the free or forces of evil? Goals? Methods? Results?

Election Reforms Initiative – a bill originated by citizens (not lawmakers) placed on the ballot Referendum – vote on an initiative Recall – ability of voters to remove public officials by forcing them to face election sooner than scheduled 17 th Amendment – direct election of Senators (not state legislatures)

The ‘Govinater’ Elected by Recall Looks more like Justice from AG to me!

1904 (other) Candidates Judge Alton B. ParkerEugene Debs Round 2!!!

1904 Election

Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal TR –Bark or Bite? –Which issues? –Superhero or myth? Theodore the Meteor!!!!

Square Deal / Taft Pages Details of the Square Deal –Labor –Consumer –Conservation Election of 1908 Taft Administration

Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal Federal arbitration – 1902 coal strike threatens supply –Government creates a commission to work out a compromise (a new precedent) –Forced arbitration!!! Trust-busting – used Sherman Antitrust Act to sue companies believed to have a monopoly Regulation –Meat inspection act – strict guidelines for meat processing –Food and Drug act – halt sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling Conservation –Set aside over 200 million acres as National Parks, Forests and Preserves Civil Rights – no improvement!!!!!

Upton Sinclair – The Jungle “There would be meat that tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms…and thousands of rats would race about on it. A man could run his hand over the piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats.”

The Jungle - continued “These rats were nuisances, and the workers would put out poisoned bread for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together….There were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat is a tidbit.”

Hungry?

TR Legacy Contributions –Conservation –Enlarged power and prestige of presidency –Compromise diplomacy –Public opinion as a political weapon –Public awareness of global community

1908 Election

Good Old Will Father of Dollar Diplomacy –Increase US investment in strategic areas Trustbuster –2x TR –Standard Oil –US Steel (oops)

Bad Old Will Payne-Aldrich Bill –Intended to reduce tariffs instead raises tariffs –Breaks campaign promise and splits Republican Party Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute –Open public lands to corporate development

Breaking Up is Hard to Do….. I want my stuff back (old job!) Finders, Keepers, Losers, Weepers!