1. Populist Movement
Farmers who ban together in order to deal w/problems. ??
Debt- wanted gov’t to use Silver backed $$ instead of Gold ? Money is worth less, so is their debt.
RR abuses- took advantage of small farmers when shipping goods. $$$ High Prices$$$
Populist Parties ideas later become laws.Ex:8hr.work day,Income tax, Direct Election of Senators.

3. William Jennings Bryan

4. Cross of Gold Speech

5. The Gilded Age
The Populists & Progressives after them, looked to fixed the problems of what Mark Twain called The Gilded Age
Twain & others criticized Industrialization & the fact that Big Business leaders were taking advantage of poor for their own gain.
The US had gained wealth but at what cost?

6. The Progressive Movement
Who-
Middle-Upper Class Reformers
What they wanted-
Progress/Change-deal w/problems caused by industrialization-Influenced by Populists
When-
1880’s-1920’s
Muckrakers-
Journalists who exposed problems

7. The Progressive Movement Consumer Protection

10. Upton Sinclair’s work led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act

11. Jacob Riis Journalist/Photographer

17. Helping the Poor
Settlement Houses helped immigrants and poor w/education Jane Addams established one of these in Chicago called Hull House

18. Helping the Poor

19. Thomas Nast Political Cartoonist who exposed political corruption

22. Government Begins to Regulate Big Business

23. Government Begins to Regulate Big Business
Sherman Anti-Trust Act/Clayton Anti-Trust Act-
Attempted to regulate/control monopolies/trusts
Interstate Commerce Commission-
Government regulate/control shipping of goods
Federal Trade Commission-
Stops unfair business practices

24. Government Begins to Regulate Big Business
Federal Reserve Banking System “The Fed”-
Controls amount of $$$ banks can loan and interest rates on loans.
The Fed will lower interest rates to get people to take out loans-mainly on homes. Meant to stimulate the economy.

25. Progressive Presidents
Teddy Roosevelt( ) becomes the first progressive president.
His domestic policies were called the Square Deal-all citizens should be treated fairly by government and business.

27. Progressive Presidents
TR wanted monopolies controlled.
For this he became known as the “Trustbuster”

28. Progressive Presidents
TR was a conservationist-today we would say environmentalist
He began the National Parks Service

29. Progressive Presidents
TR began the Progressive/Bull Moose Party for the 1912 Presidential Election
He ran against his successor-William Howard Taft and the eventual winner Woodrow Wilson

31. Progressive Presidents
William Howard Taft would actually break up more trusts than Roosevelt but never got the credit.
One of these was the Standard Oil Company-Rockefeller’s

35. Progressive Presidents
Woodrow Wilson
4 Amendments were passed during his presidency
16th-19th

36. 16th Amendment Progressive Federal Income Tax The More you make the more you pay

37. More Participation in Government
17th Amd.-citizens directly vote for US Senators-originally voted by State Law makers
Referendum-citizens vote on laws
Initiative-citizens propose laws
Secret Ballot- less intimidation
Robert LaFollette-Progressive
Wisconsin Governor

38. 18th Amendment Prohibition of Alcohol
1920
1933

39. 19th Amendment Women’s Suffrage/Vote 1920
Carrie Chapman
Alice Paul

40. Women’s Rights Margaret Sanger-
Planned Parenthood

41. African American Rights 1896-Plessy v
African American Rights 1896-Plessy v. Ferguson-Separate But Equal legal
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Learn a skill/vocation, make money-Tuskege Institute
Fight for civil rights, one of founders of NAACP-1909