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Reminders Riis – Due 10/9 ( in class) – Matsuda
OUT 10/16 – Study guide #2 out and on
website 10/18 – NO CLASS!! 10/23 – Matsuda DUE 10/30 – Exam #2 Thanksgiving Break ...6 more weeks!!
PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1901-1918
HIST 202 – U.S. HISTORY
Origins of Progressivism Grew out of:
Industrialization Immigration Urban Expansion
Progressivism is PROGRESS!!
Origins of Progressivism
National movement born out of state reforms
Progressive presidents: Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
Attitudes and Motives Country was
changing RAPIDLY! Industrialized Non-agrarian Melting pot of
immigrants Innocence was lost
Attitudes and Motives Participants were
extremely diverse: Women Liberal educators Early civil rights
crusaders Middle-class
reformers
Who were Progressives? Middle-class
Shop owners Lawyers Doctors Ministers
Religious Social Gospel
Liberals
Scientific Management Frederick W. Taylor
Conducted research in factories
Timed output cycles Discovered ways to
organize people in efficient manner
Progressives…govt. can be more efficient
The Muckrakers Made Americans
wake up!! Origins
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)
Popular Literature Magazines
McClure’s Collier’s Cosmopolitan Authors contributed
stories Books
Lincoln Steffans – The Shame of the Cities
Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives
Decline of Muckraking Reasons:
Some stories were hard to beat
Magazines were asked to tone down the stories
Corporations had public relation departments
Legal problems
Political Reform in Cities and States Secret ballots
(“Australian Ballot”) Direct election of
Senators – 17th Amendment (1913)
Direct primaries Robert LaFollette
(Wis.) Let the people
decide
Political Reforms Initiative
Method that voters could compel legislators to consider a bill
Referendum Allowed voters to vote on the issue
Recall Allowed voters to get rid of corrupt officials
Social Welfare Settlement house
reformers Jane Addams
Believed in social justice
Better schools Better courts Divorce laws Criminal reform
Municipal Reform Get rid of political
machines and bosses
Get control of public utilities
Voters elect city managers and commissioners
State Reform Governors
Battled with corporate interests
Fraudulent companies
Corrupt railroads Tax reform
Temperance – Wets v. Drys
Occupational Reform Triangle Shirtwaist
Fire March 25th 1911 146 women perished
in flames 71 injured Blamed poor working
conditions No fire plans Fire escapes were
damaged or locked!!!
Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal Progressivism shot
into gear under Teddy
1902 Coal Strike
Standard Oil trust “Bad trusts” “Good trusts”
T.R.’s Square Deal Consumer protection
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Environmental protection Newlands Reclamation Act
(1902) U.S. Forest Service (1908)
150 million acres of land for parks
Taft’s Presidency Won election of
1908 Defeated William
Jennings Bryan Busted the most
trusts in history U.S. Steel Angered Teddy
Split Republican party Progressives Republicans
Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive Program Pledged “New
Freedom” Attacked the “triple
wall of privilege” Tariffs
Underwood Tariff (1913) Banking
Federal Reserve Act (1914) Trusts
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) Federal Trade Commission
(1914)
Reminders Riis – due tonight 10/11 – Study guide #2 and Matsuda
OUT and on website 10/18 – NO CLASS!! 10/23 – Matsuda DUE 10/30 – Exam #2 Thanksgiving Break ...5 more weeks!!
African Americans 2nd rate citizens “Separate but
equal” Progressive
presidents paid little mind to Thought there were
more pressing issues Shared in the racist
sentiment
Two Approaches – Washington and DuBois
DuBois Washington
The Great Migration Mass migration of blacks
from South to northern cities 1910-1930 Aided by the Urban League
(1911)
Causes Deteriorating race
conditions Crops decimated by boll
weevil Job opportunities in cities
Civil Rights Organizations 1905 – Niagara
Movement Dubois Met at Niagara Falls,
Canada 1908 – NAACP
1920 – 100,000 members
Progressives and Women
Liberal thinkers - educated
Wanted equal rights as men
Suffragist Movement Carrie Chapman Catt –
National American Woman Suffrage Assn. (NAWSA)
Alice Paul – National Woman’s Party
19th Amendment Wilson was VERY
reluctant 1920 – guaranteed
women’s right to vote
Aided in women’s rights for Property Divorce Birth control
End of Progressivism WWI ends
Progressivism Worried about the
war Many reforms were
in place Reformers thought
their jobs were done