1. INTRO TO GILDED AGE & PROGRESSIVE ERA
Progressive Politics

2. Populist Party
Represented Farmers, common people and Industrial workers
1896 their candidate was William Jennings Bryan who ran as a Democrat. Defeated by McKinley.
Their goals were coinage of silver, government regulation of Railroads, direct election of senators, and income tax

3. Women’s Rights Women were fighting for suffrage – the right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony was one the main leaders of this movement. She proposed an amendment in 1878 that would eventually become the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Helped organize the first Women’s Rights Conference the Seneca Falls Convention in New York
Also many women supported temperance – the limitation of alcohol consumption.

5. Key Progressive Amendments
16th
17th
18th
19th I S A W
Congress can tax Income
Direct election of Senators by state voters
Prohibited the manufacture and sale of Alcohol
Women earn the right to vote

6. TEDDY ROOSEVELT The first of the 3 progressive Presidents.
Created the reform “Square Deal” to help workers, broke up trusts (trustbuster), and passed ”Pure Food & Drug and Meat Inspection Acts of 1906” and also supported women having the right to vote.
He also was a conservationist starting the National Parks.

7. WILLIAM TAFT The second of the 3 progressive Presidents.
He signed the Payne – Aldrich Bill which raised tariffs
Controversy over the Baller-Pinchot Dilemma

8. Impact of Third Parties
Progressive Party- founded on the ideals of reform
1912 Election- Theodore Roosevelt runs as a “third party” candidate (a political party outside the two party system)
Called the “Progressive Party” or “Bull Moose Party”
Caused a Republican split between Roosevelt and Taft
Democrat Woodrow Wilson wins election

10. WOODROW WILSON
Last of the 3 progressive Presidents and created the reform “New Freedom” to try and eliminate all trusts.

11. Economic Issues of Progressive ERA
Federal Reserve Act of Passed by President Wilson. US divided into 12 regions, each with a Federal Reserve Bank
Private banks remain independent, but operate under the Federal Reserve System rules
“The Fed” loans money to banks if they run short of funds
Makes the US financial system more stable