1. THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT Don’t worry about section 2 of this chapter
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Don’t worry about section 2 of this chapter

2. 15.1 - THE ROOTS/ORIGINS OF PROGRESSIVISM
What was Progressivism?
collection of ideas and activities striving to improve various aspects of American society such as…
Working conditions
Women's’ rights
Children's’ rights
poverty

3. 15.1 - THE ROOTS PROGRESSIVISM
Who were the Progressives?
Unhappy with socioeconomic results of industrialism and urbanization
Belonged to both parties (Democrats and Republicans)
Mostly urban, educated, middle-class
Most thought gov’t should be more active and involved
Gov’t itself needed fixing
Strong faith in science and technology (similarities with today?)

5. MUCKRAKERS
Journalists, photographers who investigated social conditions and political corruption
Corporations, beef industry, political machines, poverty, dangerous working conditions
Show clip from 20th Century Turning Points in U.S. History (14,000 miners go on strike - 3 mins)
Show clip from The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History – The Worst of Times – 5 mins)
They brought a lot of attention to problems people wanted fixed
Show clip from 20th Century Turning Points in U.S. History (1906 – Upton Sinclair – 3 mins)

6. FAMOUS MUCKRAKERS Jacob Riis - pictures Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair - video

7. Direct Primary, Initiative, Referendum, Recall
REFORMING GOVERNMENT T A Y L O R
Direct Primary, Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Making gov’t more efficient
Direct election of Senators

8. SUFFRAGE (the right to vote)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton calls for it in 1848
Early supporters were called immoral, unfeminine….
14th and 15th Amendments
For African-Americans, not women
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Created in 1890 to push for women’s suffrage
19th Amendment (1919/1920); finally gave women the right to vote
Show clip from The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History – The Struggle for Suffrage– 4 mins)
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

9. REFORMING SOCIETY Health Child Labor & Safety Codes Big Business
Prohibition

10. REFORMING SOCIETY – POSTERS use pages 526-527
TITLE – copy the read heading on page 526 or 527
Summarize (2-3 sentences) what had people upset about your issue/topic (give at least 1 specific example of an accident, crime…..)
Describe 1 person or group involved in trying to get changes made
Were any laws passed to deal with this issue? If yes, what were they and what did they do?
Include 2 pictures related to your topic and be prepared to explain what they are

11. 15.2 – ROOSEVELT & TAFT Theodore Roosevelt (R)
President from 1901 – 1909
Took office after the assassination of McKinley
FP – he was a Social Darwinist
DP – he was a Progressive (Square Deal)
He greatly increased the role/power of the presidency

12. 15.2 – ROOSEVELT & TAFT William Howard Taft (R)
President from 1909 – 1913
Pursued tariff reform, continued conservation policies
Policies angered many Progressives (sold Square Deal down the river?)
Successes included going after monopolies, child labor reform

13. 15.2 POSTERS TR Takes on Trusts Coal Strike of 1902
Regulating Big Business
Consumer Protection
Conservation
Roosevelt’s Legacy
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Ballinger v. Pinchot
Taft’s Achievements

14. PROHIBITION VIDEOS A nation of drunkards - 6mins
Anti Saloon league – 8mins
The Good Bootlegger – 6mins
Beer Wars/Capone – 5mins
Georgetown Bootlegging – 2mins
Speakeasies

15. 15.3 – WILSON YEARS Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Progressive Party
William Taft
Republican Party and current President
Wilson Roosevelt Taft

16. WILSON v. ROOSEVELET WILSON ROOSEVELT
He was very critical of monopolies and trusts; they should be destroyed and not regulated
He believed Roosevelt would give the federal government too much power
New Freedom – the name of his program/plan to govern
He accepted the existence of large trusts/monopolies but wanted to regulate them more
Wanted legislation to protect women and children
Supported worker’s compensation
New Nationalism – the name of his program/plan to govern

17. ELECTION OF 1912
Republican voters were split between Roosevelt and Taft (why?)
Wilson won the election with 435 electoral votes but only 42% of the popular vote
How is this possible? – see the map on page 537

19. WILSON’S REFORMS TARIFFS Underwood Tariff Act of 1913
Reduced tariffs by 30% on imported goods
Allowed for an income tax (16th Amendment)
Show clip from 20th Century Turning Points in U.S. History (16th Amendment allows… - 3 mins)
Tariff - a tax on an imported good
Why did Wilson think lowering tariffs was a good idea?

20. WILSON’S REFORMS BANKS
Banks sometimes closed/collapsed and people lost their money; Wilson wanted to restore people’s confidence in banks
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Created 12 regional banks to be supervised by a Board of Governors
Allowed for a more secure banking system
Incredibly important piece of legislation!!!!!
See page 538 for important information about the Federal Reserve (Fed)

21. WILSON’S REFORMS ANTITRUST ACTION What is a trust?
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Given the power to investigate companies to limit unfair practices by businesses
Created by Congress at Wilson’s request
Clayton Antitrust Act
Outlawed certain business practices
Retailers couldn’t be by a company to stop selling a competitor’s goods
Price discrimination
Passed by Congress because they didn’t think Wilson had done enough

22. WILSON’S REFORMS REGULATING BUSINESS Keating-Own Child Labor Act
First federal law to regulate child labor
Prohibited the employment of children under 14 in certain factories
Law was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
Why was the law still important?

23. THE LIMITS OF PROGRESSIVISM
Read page 541 and list 3 areas in which the Progressive movement “failed”