1. Progressives

4. Fighting Corruption c. Who is Boss Tweed? a. What is corruption?
Dishonest or illegal actions
Ex: governor takes “government” plane to a vacation
Ex: town councilman takes a bribe and votes to build a highway
b. What are political machines?
Powerful organizations linked to political parties
Controlled local government (city council, mayor etc…)
Controlled who got government jobs
c. Who is Boss Tweed?
William Tweed who controls NYC Democratic Party

5. Corruption Political Machines & Boss Tweed Thomas Nast
William M. Tweed ran New York City’s
Democratic Party political machine
The Tweed Ring controlled the city’s
police, courts and some newpapers
Collected millions of dollars in bribes
Thomas Nast
Newspaper cartoonist exposes
corruption in NYC in the paper
Tweed is investigated, arrested,
found guilty and sent to prison
Cities across the nation attempt to
end corruption

6. Spoils System Spoils System Pendelton Act
Andrew Jackson formalized practice of
patronage that gives supporters jobs in
government
Many people who get jobs are
unqualified
President Hayes and Garfield attempt to
end the system
Pendelton Act
President Arthur signs bill that
establishes the Civil Service
Commission
Applicants for federal government
jobs must pass examination
demonstrating the skills necessary
for the job

7. What company?

9. Sherman-Anti Trust Act
Monopoly
Monopoly
Trusts and monopolies controlled certain
key industries (oil, steel etc…)
Many believed they had too much money
and power
Sherman-Anti Trust Act
In early, 1900s, the law is used to break up monopolies
Most famous monopoly broken up was the Standard Oil Trust
T. Roosevelt was known as the “trust buster”

10. Railroads ICC Oligopoly
In 1887, Interstate Commerce Act passed
Required railroad companies to charge and publish “reasonable and just” rates
Oligopoly
A few companies controlled prices of railroads in the entire industry

11. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Food
Food
“Horrors” of the meatpacking industry
Mukrakers &
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Muckrakers are reporters who expose
corruption in society
(muck = dirt = corruption)
Upton Sinclair writes a book about the
meat packing industry shocking people
Congress passes the Meat Inspection
Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act

12. Muckrakers
a. Who where the Muckrakers? How did they expose problems in America?
Muckrakers are reporters who expose corruption in society (muck = dirt = corruption)
Ida Tarbell = exposed unfair practices of Standard Oil
Upton Sinclair = “horrors” food industry
Robert La Follette = encouraged direct primary elections

13. What were three causes “women” fought for to improve America?
Suffrage – “woman’s vote”
Charities and Community Organization – settlement houses and libraries
Prohibition – banning alcohol

14. What three presidents are known as “progressive presidents”
What three presidents are known as “progressive presidents”? List one cause that they helped reform.
Theodore Roosevelt - conservation
William Howard Taft – anti-trusts & worker safety
Woodrow Wilson – tariff reform

15. Roosevelt’s Square Deal
“Fair and equal treatment for all citizens”
Proposed an active role for FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to balance problems between “big business” and “labor”
Treated labor unions as equals (miner’s strike)
Uses Sherman Anti-Trust Act – against trusts
Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act – safer food by inspection
Antiquities Act – president controls “public lands”

16. “Progressive” Amendments
16th Amendment – Income Tax
(allows for tariff reform and prohibition of liquor)
17th Amendment – Direct Election of Senators
(more democracy – people vote)

17. 19th Amendment – Women’s Right to Vote
18th Amendment – Prohibition of Liquor
(no making, transporting, buying or selling of liquor)
19th Amendment – Women’s Right to Vote
(allows for women to vote in all elections)

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