The Progressive Era, 1900-1916

An Urban Age and a Consumer

Society

The Rise of the CityYear Urban

Population (Percentage)

Number of Cities with 100,000+

population1880 20% 12

1890 28% 15

1900 38% 18

1910 50% 21

1920 68% 26

The Muckrakers

Lincoln Steffens

Ida Tarbell

Upton Sinclair

The ImmigrantCity Percenta

geNew York

City76%

Cleveland 72%Boston 72%Chicago 71%Detroit 65%

San Francisco

Minneapolis

Pittsburg 59%Seattle 55%

Los Angeles

The Working WomanYear All Women Married

WomenWomen as %

of Labor Force1900 20.4% 5.6% 18%1910 25.2 10.7 241920 23.3 9.0 241930 24.3 11.7 25

Occupation 1900 1920Professional,

Technical8.2% 11.7%

Clerical 4.0 18.7Sales Workers 4.3 6.2Unskilled and Semiskilled

manufacturing

23.7 20.2

Household Workers 28.7 15.7

The New Standard of Living and Consumer Culture

Components of

Progressive America

Industrial Freedom

Socialism

AFL and IWW (Labor)

Feminism

Eugene Debs

Isadora Duncan

Emma Goldman

Margaret Sanger

Progressive Politics

State and Local Reforms

Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones

Robert M. LaFollette

Jane Addams and Hull House

Jane Adams

Ellen Gates Starr

Campaign for Women’s Suffrage

Louis D. Brandeis

Progressive Presidents

Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1908

Election of 1904

John Muir and President Roosevelt in Yosemite, 1903

Election of 1908

William Howard Taft, 1908-1912

Election of 1912

1912 Presidential Election Results

Strong third-party challenges from the Progressive Party and Socialists split the national vote four ways, but Democrat Wilson prevailed to win the presidency in 1912.

Woodrow Wilson, 1912-1920

Wilson ProgressivismLegislation Date Purpose

Underwood Tariff 1913 Reduced duties on foreign imports so that small businesses could thrive

Clayton Act 1914 Exempted labor unions from anti-trust laws

Keating Own Act 1916 Outlawed child labor in the manufacture of goods sold in interstate commerce

Federal Reserve Act 1913 Federally run institution that issued currency, set rates for loans, and held funds in reserve for crisis situations

Federal Trade Commission

1914 Had the power to order companies to cease unfair trading practices

Income Taxes 1913 Started with richest 5% to offset revenue of lowering tariff. Made constitutional by 16th Amendment

The Progressive Era, 1900-1916

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