1. The Progressive Era
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2. The Progressive Era "Lizzie Borden took an axe,
and gave her mother 40 whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave her father 41."

8. Goals of Progressive Movement
1. protecting social welfare
2. promoting moral improvement
3. creating economic reform
4. fostering efficiency in government

9. The Beginnings A reform movement
Piggybacked on several earlier movements
Began where populists stopped

10. Who were they? Progressives were city dwellers
Middle-class, well educated
Moderates= success
No specific race or class

11. Who were they? Progressives were city dwellers
Middle-class, well educated
Moderates= success
No specific race or class

12. The Muckrakers Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)
Ida Tarbell for McClure’s Mag.
Jacob Riis: plight of the immigrant in NYC

14. Chicago Meat-packing Plant 1919

15. Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)

17. City Changes
City Commission set up to better execute clean up and relief after natural disasters
City Manager-appointed to run city departments more efficiently

18. State Government
Recall
Referendum
Initiative
Primary system

19. Courts Holden v. Hardy Muller v. Oregon
Women’s hours in mining and steel
Muller v. Oregon
Women’s employment in hazardous jobs

20. New Amendments 16th : income tax-federal tax on income
17th : Direct election of senators-until then senators were elected by state government
18th : Prohibition-NO ALCOHOL
19th : Women’s right to vote

21. Prohibition enforcement “Who’s Idea is this?”

22. Women’s Suffrage—the VOTE

23. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

24. Susan B. Anthony

25. Theodore Roosevelt B. October 27, 1858 Very skinny, sickly child
Unconquerable spirit
Taught body to overcome ailments
Was a very very active person
Made Harvard boxing team

27. Cowboy Teddy

31. As President Wanted active government Define goals-fix the problem
“Bully Pulpit”-President speaking directly to the people
Define goals-fix the problem
Set the policies, don’t wait for congress
Give people a square deal

33. Only went after “bad trusts”
Trustbuster
Only went after “bad trusts”
Northern Securities Co. (J.P. Morgan)
Elkins Act (1903)
No refunds from railroads
Hepburn Act (1906)
Gov’t can cut rail rates
Regulate pipelines

35. Settled a # of strikes personally
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Pure Food & Drug Act
Must label what is in the product
Settled a # of strikes personally

36. Booker T. Washington
Work your way up to equality
Tuskegee Institute

37. W.E.B. DuBois Harvard Professor Fight to get rid of discrimination
N.A.A.C.P Niagara Convention
Government must step up

38. W.E.B DuBois

40. Yosemite Valley

44. William Taft

45. William H. Taft B. September 15, 1857 (OH)
Always wanted to be a lawyer
@ 30 becomes a state supreme court judge
Appointed federal court judge by Harrison

49. As President Main issue: Tariff Got pushed around, seemed weak
Wanted a lower tariff, signed a higher one.
Payne –Aldrich Act
Problems with Joe Cannon-Speaker of the House

50. Joe Cannon

52. Victories 16th Amendment Broke up a lot of trusts
8 hr. workday for federal employees
Cleans up congressional campaigns

53. New Mexico and Arizona become states

59. Woodrow Wilson B. December 29, 1856 Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Father was a Presbyterian minister
Very intelligent, perfectionist
Law degree from Princeton (1879)

62. As President Strong willed, intelligent
No charm, came across snobby
Gave message to Congress in person
Underwood Tariff
Lowered tariff, included income tax

67. Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Creates the Federal Reserve
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
Stated what corps. Could and could not do
Federal Trade Commission
Keep an eye on corporations
Had a lot of child labor laws put down by Supreme court

68. Federal Reserve System

70. African Americans Wilson segregates government offices
Large #’s move north (Jim Crow Laws)