1. The Progressive Era Focus Questions:
What were the reasons the progressive movement began?
What were the different themes of progressivism?
Describe the different elements of those themes.
Be able to identify the three progressive presidents and their policies.
Analyze progressive legislation.
The purpose of the focus questions is to help students find larger themes and structures to bring the historical evidence, events, and examples together for a connected thematic purpose.
As we go through each portion of this lecture, you may want to keep in mind how the information relates to this larger thematic question. Here are some suggestions: write the focus question in the left or right margin on your notes and as we go through, either mark areas of your notes for you to come back to later and think about the connection OR as you review your notes later (to fill in anything else you remember from the lecture or your thoughts during the lecture or additional information from the readings), write small phrases from the lecture and readings that connect that information to each focus question AND/OR are examples that work together to answer the focus question.

2. The Progressive Era
The middle class take their cue from the Populists to correct political and economic injustices.
The Progressive Era

3. Roots of Progressivism
1890’s Depression
Roots of Progressivism
Populism
Roosevelt’s Ascension to the Presidency
The ills of the Gilded Age
Mugwumps
Muckrakers

4. Themes of progressivism
17th Amendment
1. Political Reform
19th Amendment
Direct Primaries
Initiative, Referendum and Recall

5. 2. Efficiency in business and government
Pendleton Act
3. Regulation of giant corporations
Clayton Anti-Trust Act

6. 4. Social reform
Child Labor
Women's Labor
18th Amendment

7. Social Reformers
Ida B. Wells—African American woman who organized an anti-lynching movement.
W.E.B. DuBois—wanted education for blacks and founded Nat’l Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Booker T. Washington— preached for immediate, forceful equality.

8. Roosevelt’s Progressivism: “Square Deal”
●Three Elements
●Trust regulation
*Northern Securities case, 1904
●Coal strike of 1902
●Election of 1904

9. Reforms in second term ●Regulation of food and drugs ●TR’s conservation movement

10. Famous Muckrakers
Jacob Riis— photographed urban conditions in How the Other Half Lives.
Upton Sinclair— described unsanitary meat- packing conditions in The Jungle.

11. Taft’s Progressivism: 1908-1912
●Election of 1908 ●Taft’s Background ●Taft’s progressivism

12. Election of 1912
●The Campaign ●Significance of the election

13. Wilson’s Progressivism
●Wilson’s background

14. Wilsonian reform
●Tariff Reform and the 16th Amendment ●Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ●Efforts for new anti-trust laws