1. American History Progressivism

2. Working conditions In 1900 over 1.7 million kids worked outside the home. Factory work was monotonous and often unhealthy. Coal mines hired 9 year boys who were paid 60¢ for a 10-hour day. States passed laws that required minimum age and a maximum number of work hours. Compulsory education laws required young children to go so school 150 women died in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory—the doors had been locked from the outside. Stricter building codes were made.

3. Political Corruption In American cities, the mayor could appoint his friends to head city departments. Often, these friends and supporters didn’t know anything about city services. Progressives argued for a city manager who would be an expert to run city departments. Graft: bribes and kickbacks from contractors

4. Political Reform “Give the government back to the people” Direct PrimaryALL party members (not just the party bosses) can vote for a candidate to run in a general election. InitiativeCitizens can introduce a bill, and then the legislature votes on it. Referendum Legislation goes to the voters for approval.

5. Progressivism An era of reform in the early 1900s A reaction to corruption and poor inner-city conditions of the late 1800s

6. 17 th amendment Old way to elect Senators The state legislators voted for the 2 Senators from each state. New way to elect Senators All voters in a states vote directly for their state Senators.

7. Urban Poverty Poverty Disease Crime All were a part of everyday life for immigrants in the cities.

8. Jacob Riis described urban problems in How the Other Half Lives.

9. Racial Discrimination Segregation: races were kept separate The Progressives didn’t do anything to help African Americans. Lynching

10. NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Founded to fight against racial discrimination and segregation W.E.B. du Bois was one of the founders.

11. Women’s Suffrage* * The right to vote Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. AnthonyCarrie Chapman Catt

12. 19 th Amendment Women got the right to vote.

13. Temperance The movement to eliminate the use of alcohol WCTU: the Women’s Christian Temperance Union led the movement. It led to... Prohibition

14. 18 th Amendment It prohibited the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol.

15. 21 st amendment It repealed (cancelled) the 18 th amendment. Speakeasies Bootleggers Rumrunners Moonshine Al Capone Organized crime Many Americans broke the Prohibition law.

16. Muckrakers Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption Standard Oil Company was investigated by Ida Tarbell Upton Sinclair described conditions in the meatpacking industry. A description of the political machines and vote stealing. Gov’t passed the Food & Drug Act.

17. Teddy Roosevelt “Trustbuster” Nickname given to Teddy Roosevelt He worked to limit the power of monopolies. “A Square Deal” Teddy Roosevelt’s campaign slogan He promised that his reform programs would make life more fair for different groups.

18. “Trustbuster”- TR didn’t dislike all trusts—just the “bad trusts.”

19. Bull Moose* Taft followed TR as President. TR didn’t think Taft was a very good Progressive, so he decided to run for president again. TR broke from the Republican Party and started his own party, the Progressive Party. *The Progressive Party was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party because TR said he was “fit as a bull moose” to run again.

20. Woodrow Wilson Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) won because the Republican votes were split between Taft And Roosevelt. “New Freedom” Wilson wanted to put limits on the power of government. Freedom is more important than efficiency.

21. 3 Progressive Presidents Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson