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Chapter 18 The Progressive Era, 1900–1916. An Urban Age, a Consumer Society  Farms and Cities  The Muckrakers.

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1 Chapter 18 The Progressive Era, 1900–1916

2 An Urban Age, a Consumer Society  Farms and Cities  The Muckrakers

3 Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Table 18.1 Rise Of The City, 1880–1920

4 An Urban Age, a Consumer Society  Immigration as a Global Process

5 Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 18.1 The World on the Move, World Migration 1815-1914

6 Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Table 18.2 Immigrants and their Children

7 An Urban Age, a Consumer Society  The Immigrant Quest for Freedom

8 An Urban Age, a Consumer Society  Consumer Freedom  The Working Woman

9 Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Table 18.3 Percentage of Women 14 Years and Older

10 An Urban Age, a Consumer Society  The Rise of Fordism

11 Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Table 18.5 Sales of Passenger Cars

12 An Urban Age, a Consumer Society  The Promise of Abundance  An American Standard of Living

13 Varieties of Progressivism  Industrial Freedom

14 Varieties of Progressivism  The Socialist Presence  The Gospel of Debs

15 Varieties of Progressivism  American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

16 Varieties of Progressivism  The New Immigrants on Strike  Labor and Civil Liberties

17 Varieties of Progressivism  The New Feminism  The Rise of Personal Freedom

18 Varieties of Progressivism  The Birth-Control Movement  Native American Progressivism

19 The Politics of Progressivism  Effective Freedom  “social legislation”  Sought to renew notions of an “activist, socially conscious government”  Reject old assumptions: powerful gov’t threatened liberty  State and Local Reforms  Raised property taxes  Schools, parks, etc  Robert M. La Follette (Gov, R -WI)  Laboratory for democracy  Primaries

20 The Politics of Progressivism  Progressive Democracy  Return  Government by Expert

21 The Politics of Progressivism  Jane Addams and Hull House  “Spearheads for Reform”

22 The Politics of Progressivism  The Campaign for Woman Suffrage  Maternalist Reform

23 The Politics of Progressivism  The Idea of Economic Citizenship

24 The Progressive Presidents  Nationalization  the most significant political development of the early 20 th century  Poverty and economic insecurity are national problems that needed government solutions.  “Jefferson ends” of democratic self- determination and individual freedom could be secured only through the “Hamiltonian means” of government intervention  Theodore Roosevelt  1 st progressive president  Youngest to ever hold the office  Square deal – target “bad” corporations”  Northern Securities Company  J.P. Morgan  Ordered it dissolved

25 The Progressive Presidents  Roosevelt and Economic Regulation  President should settle labor disputesj  Hepburn Act  ICC set RR rates  The Conservation Movement  Avid outdoorsman  Millions of acres set aside for nat’l parks

26 The Progressive Presidents  Taft in Office  Ohio judge  More aggressive against trusts than Roosevelt  Standard Oil  American tobacco  16 th Amendment

27 The Progressive Presidents  The Election of 1912  New Freedom and New Nationalism

28 Warm Up 02.20.14  Please answer the following question in your binder:  Rank the three progressive presidents, 1 being the highest. Explain your reasoning for your top choice.

29 Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 18.3 The Presidential Election of 1912

30 The Progressive Presidents  Wilson’s First Term:  Split in Republican Party gives Wilson the victory  Underwood Tariff  Reduced duties on imports  Graduated income tax on wealthy  Clayton Act 1914:  Exempted unions from anti- trust laws  Barred courts from preventing workers’ right to strike  Other legislation:  Outlawing child labor  Limiting work on RRs to 8 hrs/ day  Credit to farmers who stored crops in gov’t warehouses

31  The Expanding Role of Government  Wilson began to look like Roosevelt  Federal Reserve System  Federal Trade Commission  By 1916, Progressive-Era efforts had vastly increased the powers of the national state


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