chapter 7: the progressive era 1900-1920. you could be in any party and still be a progressive. they...
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Chapter 7: The Progressive Era
1900-1920
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You could be in any party and still be a Progressive. They wanted to fix:
• Unregulated industrialization
• Unplanned urbanization• Unrelenting
immigration• Social instability• Economic injustice• Political corruption
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The Muckrakers
• Muckrakers were named by TR because they could only look down at the problems of society
• The muckrakers saw their primary objective as exposing social problems to the public.
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Features of Progressivism:• Democracy – the direct
primary, initiative, referendum, recall, & the 17th amendment
• Efficiency – scientific government, commission system, city-manager plan
• Regulation – restore the competition of small firms
• Social Justice – private charities like Settlement Houses, labor legislation for children, and women
• Prohibition – amendment sent to the states in 1917 Robert M. La Follette
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company Disaster
in 1911
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Teddy Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”
• He called for enforcement of exiting anti-trust laws
• During the 1902 Coal Strike TR won support for his use of the “big stick” against business
• By taking these actions TR expanded Federal power
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Teddy Roosevelt’s Own Term
The Hepburn Act – authorized the ICC to set maximum rates for railroads
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Upton Sinclair author of the Jungle
TR signed The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act (b/c of the novel the Jungle)
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Teddy Roosevelt and Conservation
Environmental Conservation with his friend George Bird Grinnell who the Audubon Society
TR was an ardent conservationist and sportsman
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The 1908 Presidential Race
The Democrats once again nominate
William Jennings Bryan
Vs.TR’s hand picked successor was
Republican William Howard Taft
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Taft as President
• Domestic Policies i.e. the Tariff and Department of Interior
• Conservation• Anti-Trust suit against
United States Steel• 16th and 17th
Amendments
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The Presidential Election of 1912
Eugene V. Debs Socialist
Socialism- advocates
State ownershipof business
Anti-Capitalism 900,000 votes
William Howard Taft Nominated
by the Republicans
2,500,000 votes8 Electoral Votes
Theodore Roosevelt Split the Republican Party and started a Progressive Party “The Bull Moose
Party”4,100,000 votes
88 Electoral Votes
Woodrow Wilson Democrat
6,300,000 votes435 Electoral
Votes
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Wilson’s 1st Term as President
• The Tariff• Wilson appointed
William Jennings Bryan as secretary of state
• The Federal Reserve Act• The Federal Highways
Act• No Woman’s Suffrage• Allowed Racism in Gov.• No support for Anti-
Child Labor laws• No Support for Farmers
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The Federal Reserve
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The Federal Highway Act
• Passed in 1916• This also marked a
sharp turn from Jacksonian opposition to internal improvements at federal expense
• This would help the farmers with their new automobiles
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Limits of Progressivism• At the same time of
progressivism blacks were losing their rights
• Progressivism was mainly for the middle-class not the poor
• Voter turn out would see a steady decline
• When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917 the Progressive Era would end