1. Unit 3 Chapter 9
The Progressive Era

2. Id and Define Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4
Progressive movement
Prohibition
Muckraker
Scientific management
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
17th amendment
Section 2
NACW
Suffrage
NAWSA
Section 3
The Jungle
Square Deal
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Conservation
NAACP
Section 4
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Bull Moose Party

3. The Origins of Progressivism
Progressive movement aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices 4 GOALS
1. protecting social welfare
2.Promoting moral improvement
3.Creating economic reform
4.Fostering efficiency

4. Protecting Social Welfare
Social Gospel and settlement houses
YMCA (young men’s Christian association)
Salvation Army
Florence Kelly – became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children

5. Florence Kelley is third from the left

8. Promoting Moral Improvement
Improving the lives of the poor through moral change
Prohibition was one of the programs
WCTU – Women’s Christian Temperance Union crusaded for prohibition
Singing, praying and urging saloon keepers to stop selling alcohol
Suffrage

9. Carrie Nation
Led a campaign to eliminate the “evils” of liquor through violent means.
She had an axe yo!

10. Frances Willard
Took a Small Midwest campaign and turned it national

11. Creating Economic Reform
Panic of 1893
Some embraced socialism
Labor leader Eugene V. Debs created the American Socialist Party
Progressives distanced themselves from socialism

13. Cont.
Muckrakers – journalists who wrote for popular magazines about the corruption
Ida Tarbell – exposed the Standard Oil company in McClures Magazine
Yellow journalist – exaggerates a story to sell newspapers

15. Fostering Efficiency
Louis D. Brandeis fought to limit women’s work day to 10hours
Using the high cost of the long working hour “Brandeis Brief”

16. Frederick Winslow Taylor used time and motion studies to improve efficiency by breaking manufacturing tasks into simpler parts
“Taylorism” –Applying scientific management studies to see how quickly a task can be performed

18. Henry Ford using the assembly line and reducing the work day to 8hours and $5 a day.
Which gave workers incentive work

19. Cleaning Up Local Government
Galveston, Texas – Hurricane revealed the failure of the government
Dayton, Ohio – flood
Set up City Manager plan
Reform Mayors – introduced progressive reforms

22. Reform at the State level
Reform governors
Robert M. La Follette “fighting Bob” entered the Senate
Targeted the railroad industry

25. Protecting Working Children
In 1904 the National Child Labor Committee gathered evidence to show the plight of children
Keating-Owen Act in prohibited the transportation of goods across state lines that were produced by children
Later declared unconstitutional

31. Effort to Limit Working Hours
Bunting vs. Oregon
Persuaded the court to uphold a 10 hour work day for men

34. Lost youth

35. Reforming Elections Initiative – a bill originated by the people
Referendum - a vote on the initiative, requires legislator to vote on it.
Recall - enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions

36. Recall election results

37. Direct Election of Senators
17th Amendment to the Constitution
Kept the senators honest by making them accountable to the people

38. Section 2 Women in Public Life
Women in the Work Force
1 out of 5 American women had jobs
They were paid half as much as men
Domestic Workers

39. Women Lead Reform
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in NYC – 146 workers died
Encouraged women's groups
Fought for reform
Women began to attend colleges
NACW, National Association of Colored Women

40. Triangle shirtwaist fire

41. Susan B. Anthony
fought for suffrage along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton – founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) which united with the NAWSA

42. Women's Suffrage 3 part strategy
1. Get the vote from state legislatures
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho
2. Women pursued court cases to test the 14th amendment
3. National Constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote

43. Section 3 Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Roosevelt was known as the progressive president
NY politician who was considered too radical for state party politics
They attempted to bury him in the Vice Presidency

44. T. Roosevelt becomes President
The Death of McKinley put Roosevelt in office at the age of 42 he was the youngest president
Wanted to help the common people by giving them a Square Deal
Progressive reforms

45. Using Federal Power
Trust busting – did not truly end trust just regulated them
Sherman Anti-Trust Act – too loosely worded
1902 Coal Strike, Roosevelt came out on the side of the strikers

46. Roosevelt Health and Environment
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Described the filthy conditions of the slaughter houses for workers
Inspired the Meat Inspection Act
And 1906 congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act

47. Roosevelt appointed Gifford Pinchot as head of the U.S. Forest Service
Conservation
John Muir, a naturalist and writer persuaded Roosevelt to set aside 148 million acres of forest
Roosevelt appointed Gifford Pinchot as head of the U.S. Forest Service
Newlands act, irrigation project
Roosevelt and Muir

48. Section 4 Progressivism Under Taft
Roosevelt promised not to run for a third term instead he wanted William Howard Taft to become president

51. Taft as president
Did not receive much credit for programs or the busting of 90 trusts
The Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Taft wanted to lower tariffs, he supported the Payne Bill
However the Senate passed a weakened bill
Conservationist
Gifford Pinchot believed in managing for public enjoyment and private development

52. 3 candidates election of 1912
Republicans –Taft
Progressive/Bull Moose – T. Roosevelt
Democrat – Woodrow Wilson

53. The Republican Party Splits 1912
The Bull moose party - 3rd party form by Roosevelt who decides to run for a third term

55. Woodrow Wilson Campaign with women’s votes and black rights.
Carrie Chapman Catt
NAWSA PRES
Lady like behavior
Radical Leaders
Lucy Burn and Alice Paul
NWP

56. Alice Paul
Lucy Burns