History - Chapter 17 - Progressive Movement
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- When did the prgressive movement take place?
- 1890's - 1920's
- What is the progressive movement?
- Return control of government to the people restore economic opportunity and correct injustices.
- Prohibition
- Banning of Alcohol *Social Reform*
- Suffrage
- Right to vote - Woman
- NAACP
- National Assosation (for) Advancement (of) Colored People
- NACW
- National Assosation (For) Colored Woman
- Which Admendment gives the woman the right to vote?
- 19th
- Social Reforms
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(1) Prohibition
(2) Sufferage
(3) Segregation / Discrimation - Jimmy Crow Laws
- Seperate bathrooms / Water fontains, diners, stores. Ect. Ect.
- W.E.B. DuBois established what?
- NAACP - National Assosation (for) Advancement (of) Colored People
- Muckrakers
- Journalists writing about corrupt businesses (Ida Wells)
- People who helped establish the womans right to vote...
- Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady-Stanton, Carrie Chapmen-Catt
- Economic + Government Reforms
- Fosering Efficiency, Protecting Workers, Intro. of City/Town Councils, Regulating Railroads/Mines/Mills,
- Fostering Efficiency
- First guy to make it work - Henry Ford. He invented the assembly line (people stand in a line, first person puts one part, second person, next part) Reduced hours to 8 hours, and got 5 dollars a day
- Protecting Workers
- Limits womans working hours to 10 hours a day. Compensation (Pay if you get hurt at work) child Labor Laws
- Robert La Follete
- Government Reformer, changed a lot of the stuff
- Initiative
- Bill Comming from the people - petition
- Referendom
- Added to state laws for our protection / Vote on the bill
- Direct Primary
- Voters choose candidates
- 17th Admendment
- Senators elected by people rather than legislature.
- Teddy Roosevelt
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Wasn't suppose to be president.
Thought he was too zellus
wanted to control him
McKinly got assassenated - Coal Strike 1902
- 144 thousand people freezing to death
- Teddy Roosevelt - Trustbusting
- Regulated 44 Trusts in 7 years
- One good thing about Teddy
- Believed in the everyday/average joe
- Meet Inspection Act
- Teddy Roosevelt - The jungle by Upton Sinclair - Read it and couldnt' believe it.
- "The Jungle" ~ Upton Sinclair
- A book about the meat packing industry. Rats, spitting, rotten meat, poison
- Pure Food and Drug act
- Teddy Roosevelt - Made sure food was labeled correctly
- Conservation
- Teddy set aside millions of acres for natural resources
- Gifford Pinchot
- Major conservationalist -
- John Muir
- Preservation - Perfect
- William Taft
- Busted 90 Trusts in 4 years, sold a million acres of conservation land, fired Gifford Pinchot
- Payne-Alrich Tarrif
- Didn't tax "silly" things - Canary Bird Seed, Hide and Sea weed - William Taft
- Republican Party Splits
- Progressives (Bull Moose Party) vs. Conservatives.
- Election of 1912
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Socialist - Eugene V. Debs
Republican - William H. Taft
Progressive - Theodore roosevelt
Democratic - Woodrow Wilson - Woodrow Wilson
- Trusts should be broken up, Government - not bigger Buisness smaller, Slightly supported sufferage, nothing for civil rights
- Clayton Anti-trust Act
- Allows unions to exist without fear of being thrown in jail or paying a fine. Declairs certain buisness practices illegal.
- 16th Amendment
- Income Tax
- Federal Trade Commison
- Watch Dogs