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Chapter 18 Section 2. Progressive Legislation. Summarize the Progressives’ views on regulating business. Progressives sought government regulation to protect workers’ rights and business competition. They opposed government control - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 18 Section 2
Progressive Legislation
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Summarize the Progressives’ views on regulating business.
• Progressives sought government regulation to protect workers’ rights and business competition.
• They opposed government control– Except in the cases of
companies that supplied services like water and electricity
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Social Welfare Program
• Progressives believed that government ought to increase its responsibility for the well-being of people
• Social welfare programs would help insure a minimum standard of living– Unemployment benefits– Accident and health
insurance– Social security for disabled
and elderly
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Municipal
• Many of the earliest Progressive reforms were made at the city, or municipal, level
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Give examples of government reforms and social welfare programs at the municipal and state levels during the progressive era.
• Municipal- public baths in Detroit; free kindergarten in Toledo
• State- workers’ accident insurance, child labor legislation
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Home Rule
• A system that gives cities a limited degree of self-rule– Allows cities to escape
domination by state governments controlled by political machines or by business or rural interests
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Direct Primary
• An election in which citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections
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Initiative
• A process in which citizens can put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting voters’ signatures on a petition
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Describe the effect of each of these reforms: a.)home rule; b.)direct relief; c.) initiative.
• Home rule- frees cities from domination by state governments
• Direct primary– voters, not party leaders, choose candidates
• Initiative- voters introduce a bill, then vote on it in the next election
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Referendum
• A process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by the legislature
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Recall
• Procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election
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Holding Company
• A firm that buys up stocks and bonds of smaller companies
• In doing so, it creates a monopoly
• Railroads tended to do this
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What reforms did Theodore Roosevelt achieve under his square deal?
• Antitrust activism; railroad regulation; transforming Interstate Commerce Commission into first regulatory agency; Pure Food and Drug Act; Meat Inspection Act; protecting the environment
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Choose 2 constitutional amendments passed during the Progressive Era and explain how they expanded the role of government in citizens’ lives.
• 16th Amendment- Congress could create an income tax
• 17th Amendment- direct election of senators
• 18th Amendment- Prohibition
• 19th Amendment- Women’s suffrage