The ProgressiveMovement

Unit 9

Chapters 31-33

Progressive Movement

• Idea = return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life

• Roots????• Goals

– Protect social welfare– Promote moral improvement– Create economic reform– Foster efficiency– Political reform

Progressive MovementGOALS

1. Protecting social welfare• Settlement houses, soup kitchens, YMCA

2. Promoting moral reform• Prohibition

3. Creating economic reform• Muckrakers – journalists who wrote about

corrupt business and politics4. Fostering efficiency

• Scientific management• Assembly line production

5. Election reform

Settlement Houses

Assimilation, Education, Independence

Who Will Help?

Crowded?

PROHIBITION

Issues:

Unemployment

Domestic violence

Abandonment

Are there other reasons?Immigration?Social class?Morality?

Muckrakers

Defenders of the free or forces of evil?

Goals?

Methods?

Results?

Election Reforms

• Initiative – a bill originated by citizens (not lawmakers) placed on the ballot

• Referendum – vote on an initiative• Recall – ability of voters to remove

public officials by forcing them to face election sooner than scheduled

• 17th Amendment – direct election of Senators (not state legislatures)

The ‘Govinater’ Elected by Recall

Looks more likeJustice fromAG to me!

1904 (other) Candidates

Judge Alton B. Parker Eugene Debs Round 2!!!

1904 Election

Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal

• TR– Bark or Bite?– Which issues?– Superhero or myth?

Theodore the Meteor!!!!

Square Deal / Taft Pages 689-700

• Details of the Square Deal– Labor– Consumer– Conservation

• Election of 1908• Taft Administration

Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal

• Federal arbitration – 1902 coal strike threatens supply– Government creates a commission to work out a

compromise (a new precedent)– Forced arbitration!!!

• Trust-busting – used Sherman Antitrust Act to sue companies believed to have a monopoly

• Regulation– Meat inspection act – strict guidelines for meat processing– Food and Drug act – halt sale of contaminated foods and

medicines and called for truth in labeling• Conservation

– Set aside over 200 million acres as National Parks, Forests and Preserves

• Civil Rights – no improvement!!!!!

Upton Sinclair – The Jungle

• “There would be meat that tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms…and thousands of rats would race about on it. A man could run his hand over the piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats.”

The Jungle - continued

• “These rats were nuisances, and the workers would put out poisoned bread for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together….There were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat is a tidbit.”

Hungry?

TR Legacy

• Contributions– Conservation– Enlarged power and

prestige of presidency

– Compromise diplomacy

– Public opinion as a political weapon

– Public awareness of global community

1908 Election

Good Old Will

• Father of Dollar Diplomacy– Increase US

investment in strategic areas

• Trustbuster– 2x TR– Standard Oil– US Steel (oops)

Bad Old Will

• Payne-Aldrich Bill– Intended to reduce

tariffs instead raises tariffs

– Breaks campaign promise and splits Republican Party

• Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute– Open public lands

to corporate development

Breaking Up is Hard to Do…..

I want my stuff back (old job!)

Finders, Keepers,Losers,Weepers!