1. PROGRESSIVE ERA 1890s-1917
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2. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Who were the Progressives?
What reforms did they seek?
How successful were Progressive Era reforms?
Consider: political change, social change(industrial conditions, urban life, women, prohibition)

3. ORIGINS OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM

4. Progressivism WHEN? “Progressive Reform Era” WHO? “Progressives”
1901
1920
1920s
WHO? “Progressives”
urban middle-class: managers & professionals; women
WHY? Address the problems arising from:
industrialization (big business, labor strife)
urbanization (slums, political machines, corruption)
immigration (ethnic diversity)
inequality & social injustice (women & racism)

5. Progressivism HOW? WHAT are their goals?
Democracy – government accountable to the people
Regulation of corporations & monopolies
Social justice – workers, poor, minorities
Environmental protection
HOW?
Government (laws, regulations, programs)
Efficiency
value experts, use of scientific study to determine the best solution (Remember Taylorism??)
Pragmatism – William James, John Dewey ( Darwinism)
(Cf. scientific management/Taylor)
Optimists -
wikipedia

6. Origins of Progressivism
Progressivism had its origins in the state reforms of the early 1890’s, it acquired national momentum with the unexpected Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
The Progressive Era lasted through 3 presidencies (Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson) and ended with U.S. entry into WW I but not before sweeping legislation was passed at the state and national level and forever changed the way Americans viewed the role of government.
Wadsworth.com;

7. Origins of Progressivism
“Muckrakers” (The role of press to identify problems)
1. Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives (1890) poverty
2. Ida Tarbell – “The History of the Standard Oil Co.” (1902)
3. Lincoln Steffens – The Shame of the Cities (1904) corruption
Wadsworth.com;
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens

8. National Progressive REFORMS

9. National REFORMS 1. 16th. Amendment - 2. 17th. Amendment -
5. Meat Inspection Act -
6. Pure Food and Drug Act -
7. Clayton Act -
8. Elkins Act and Hepburn Act -

10. National Reforms
9. Federal Reserve Act 1913 Central bank (Can anyone say 3rd. B.U.S.?) The FED controls the supply of money in Am.

11. National Reforms
The FED is a non-central, centralized banking system. Say what???

12. MUNICIPAL & STATE REFORMS

13. MUNICIPAL REFORM municipal reform
utilities - water, gas, electricity, trolleys
council-manager plan (Dayton, 1913)
Shoe line--Bowery men with gift from Tim Sullivan, February, 1910
"Big Tim" Sullivan, a New York City ward boss, rewarded "repeat voters" with a new pair of shoes. Sullivan once explained, "When you've voted ‘em with their whiskers on, you take ‘em to a barber and scrape off the chin fringe. Then you vote ‘em again…Then to a barber again, off comes the sides and you vote ‘em a third time with the mustache…[Then] clean off the mustache and vote ‘em plain face. That makes every one of ‘em for four votes." (Library of Congress) Pageant 13e Reader’s Companion
Shoe line - Bowery men with gifts from ward boss Tim Sullivan, February, 1910

14. MUNICIPAL REFORM strong mayor system
COUNCIL MEMBER
COUNCIL MEMBER
COUNCIL MEMBER
COUNCIL MEMBER
COUNCIL MEMBER
CITY SERVICES
council-manager plan (Dayton, 1913)
COUNCIL MEMBER
COUNCIL MEMBER
COUNCIL MEMBER
COUNCIL MEMBER
COUNCIL MEMBER
CITY MANAGER
CITY SERVICES

15. STATE POLITICAL REFORM
1. secret ballots -
2. direct primary -
3. Robert M. LaFollette -
4. Initiative -
5. Referendum -
6. Recall -
Wadsworth.com
Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin Governor
“Power to the People.”

16. STATE POLITICAL REFORM
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections,

17. STATE SOCIAL REFORMS professional social workers
settlement houses - education, culture, day care. Best known was Hull House - Jane Addams.
child labor laws
Enable education & advancement for working class children.

18. STATE SOCIAL REFORMS workplace & labor reforms 1. eight-hour work day
2. improved safety & health conditions in factories
3. workers compensation laws
4. minimum wage laws
5. unionization
6. child labor laws
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, NYC

19. State Social Reform: Child Labor
“Breaker Boys” Pennsylvania, 1911
Child Laborers in Indiana Glass Works, Midnight, Indiana. 1908
(1) Description: Child Laborers in Indiana Glass Works, Midnight, Indiana Photographer, Lewis W. Hine; Credit: Nartional Archives and Records Administration;
(2) Description: Child Laborer, Newberry, S.C The overseer said apologetically, "She just happened in." She was working steadily . photographer, Lewis W. Hine;Credit: Nartional Archives and Records Administration;
(3) The coal mines of Pennsylvania employed more than ten thousand boys under the age of 16. Known as "breaker boys," they sorted coal. Such work was dangerous and sometimes fatal, as attested by this 1911 headline. (Library of Congress); Pageant 13e History Companion
(4) Lewis W. Hine. Shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Bay St. Louis, Miss., March 3, 1911.;"On other side of shed still younger children were working. Out of sixty working,... I counted 15 apparently under 12 years of age. Some 3, 4, and 5 years old were picking too.... Boss said they went to work at 3 A.M. and would quit about 3 or 4 P.M." ; PBS American Photography
Shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Bay St. Louis, Miss., March 3, 1911
Child Laborer, Newberry, S.C. 1908

20. Settlement Houses Settlement Houses Hull-House – Jane Addams
Hull House today: (1906 picture)
Jane Addams (1905)
Hull-House Complex in 1906

21. Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Anti-Saloon League
Temperance Crusade
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Anti-Saloon League
Frances Willard ( ), leader of the WCTU
Anti-Saloon League Campaign, Dayton

22. TEMPERANCE & PROHIBITION
Eighteenth Amendment – Why??
Henretta, America’s History 4e from
Prohibition on the Eve of the 18th Amendment, 1919

23. SOCIALISM
ALTERNATIVES

24. SOCIALISM Socialist Party Eugene V. Debs
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or “Wobblies”)
Socialists parade, May Day, 1910
Though their objectives sometimes differed from those of middle-class Progressive reformers, socialists also became a more active force in the early twentieth century. Socialist parades on May Day, such as this one in 1910, were meant to express the solidarity of all working people. (Library of Congress)
Socialists parade, May Day, 1910
Eugene V. Debs

25. Roosevelt, Taft & Wilson as Progressive presidents
NATIONAL REFORM
Roosevelt, Taft & Wilson as Progressive presidents

26. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How effective were Progressive Era reformers and the federal government in bringing about reform at the national level in the period ?
Did the Courts uphold Progressive legislation??
(2003B DBQ)

27. Assassination of President McKinley, Sept 6, 1901
Description: Assassination of William McKinley. Czolgosz shoots President McKinley with a concealed revolver, at Pan-American Exposition reception, Sept. 6th, Keywords: Credit: Library of Congress

28. Theodore Roosevelt: the “accidental President” Republican (1901-1909)
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography
(The New-York Historical Society)

29. Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”
1902 Anthracite Coal Miners Strike
“Square Deal”
Wadsworth.com (both)
Anthracite miners at Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1900

30. Roosevelt the “trust-buster”
Northern Securities Company (1904)
“good trusts” and “bad trusts”
Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act (1906)
Scanned from The Verdict 22 May 1899 by C. Gordon Moffat
“ONE SEES HIS FINISH UNLESS GOOD GOVERNMENT RETAKES THE SHIP”

31. TR the “Trustbuster”
TR accepted monopolies as a fact of life but felt that government regulation was the best way to control corrupt businesses.

32. Consumer Protection Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Wadsworth.com (stockyards, Meatpacking workers); Brinkley 11e Instructor Resource CD (The Jungle); Theodore Roosevelt cartoon "A nauseating job, but it must be done“; Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, published in 1906, prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to order an investigation of Sinclair's allegations about unsanitary practices. Roosevelt then used the results of that investigation to pressure Congress into approving new federal legislation to inspect meatpacking. (Utica Saturday Globe) Pageant 13e
Chicago Meatpacking Workers, 1905
"A nauseating job, but it must be done"

33. Roosevelt & Conservation
Used the Forest Reserve Act of 1891
U.S. Forest Service (1906)
Gifford Pinchot
White House conference on conservation -1908
John Muir
Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, 1907
Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, 1907; The two friends and allies in the conservation cause aboard the steamboat Mississippi on a 1907 tour with the Inland Waterways Commission. (Library of Congress)’; [Pageant 13e History Companion]
Description: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, c1906;Credit: Library of Congress;
Theodore Roosevelt & John Muir at Yosemite 1906

34. CONSERVATION: National Parks and Forests
Faragher, Out of Many, 3rd Ed.;

35. William Howard Taft President 1909-13 Republican
This postcard depicts how President Theodore Roosevelt, in command of the Republican Party, persuaded his friend William Howard Taft to run for president in Taft was not eager for that office, but Roosevelt succeeded in convincing him to seek it. With Roosevelt's strong support, Taft was elected, but he proved a disappointment to Roosevelt. (Collection of Janice L. and David J. Frent)
Postcard with Taft cartoon

36. Taft’s Progressive Accomplishments
trust-busting
forest and oil reserves
Sixteenth Amendment
BUT: Caused split in Republican Party
Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy
(Taft has) “…completely twisted around the policies I advocated and acted upon.”
-Theodore Roosevelt

37. Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson Progressive Party (“Bull Moose party”)
“New Nationalism”
significance ….
Wilson: Wadsworth.com; Description: Theodore Roosevelt as an opera singer who wins the favor of "Miss Insurgency", while Robert La Follette watches in disgust. 03/18/1912. Artist, Berryman, Clifford K.;Credit: National Archives and Records Administration;
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt cartoon, March 1912

38. 1912 Presidential Election
wadsworth

39. Wilson Woodrow Wilson “New Freedom” Underwood Simmons Tariff (1913)
Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
Keating-Owen Act (1916)
Wadsworth.com
Wilson at the peak of his power

40. Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Act
Thomson Wadsworth.com

41. WOMEN & SUFFRAGE

42. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
To what extent did economic and political developments as well as the assumptions about the nature of women affect the position of American women during the period ?
(1997 DBQ)

43. WOMEN “women’s professions” “new woman” clubwomen
A local club for nurses was formed in New York City in Here the club members are pictured in their clubhouse reception area. (Photo courtesy of the Women's History and Resource Center, General Federation of Women's Clubs.)
The Women's Club of Madison, Wisconsin conducted classes in food, nutrition, and sewing for recent immigrants. (Photo courtesy of the Women's History and Resource Center, General Federation of Women's Clubs.)

44. Women’s Suffrage National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Carrie Chapman Catt
Wadsworth.com
Ohio Woman Suffrage Headquarters, Cleveland, 1912

45. Woman suffrage before 1920
Thomson Wadsworth Wadsworth.com

46. Women’s Suffrage Alice Paul National Woman’s Party
Nineteenth Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment
Suffragette Banner 1918
Description: Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. The first picket line - College day in the picket line line, 1917;Credit: Library of Congress.
Description: The 19th amendment; Credit: Library of Congress
19th Amendment
National Woman’s Party members picketing in front of the White House, 1917
(All: Library of Congress)

47. RACE RELATIONS

48. Black Population, 1920
Faragher, Out of Many, 3rd Ed.;

49. Civil Rights for minorities
In championing democracy for the America people, most leaders of the Progressive Movement (state, local, national) thought only in terms of the white race (and nativist).
Blacks, Indians, recent immigrants were largely ignored.
Lynchings. Ida B. Wells Lynching in Am.

50. Civil Rights for Minorities
The Great Migration -

51. Civil Rights for Minorities
Birth of A Nation –
Endorsed
by Pres.
Wilson.
1915