The Progressive Era Business and Politics Society Gender and Race

The Progressive Era

Business and PoliticsSociety

Gender and Race

Business and Political Reforms

At all levels of government, there was corruption!

How did reforms work to stop this?

O City commissionersO Civil Service Commission

To encourage more participation in government . . .

O 17th amendment changed the way senators were elected

O Election Reform (Oregon System)

Trusts and big business were getting too powerful!O Sherman Antitrust ActO Theodore Roosevelt’s Square DealO Federal Trade CommissionO Clayton Antitrust Act

Society

We had serious social problems related to alcohol!

O Women’s Christian Temperance Union

O Anti-Saloon LeagueO 18th amendment prohibited making,

selling, or transporting alcohol

We had unsafe food and medicine!

O Meat Inspection ActO Pure Food and Drug Act

We ridiculously difficult working conditions!

O Children’s Bureau of Labor Department

O Women’s Trade Union LeagueO Mine/railroad safety standardsO Keating/Owen Act

Gender and Race

Women should have the right to vote!

O Woman suffrage movementO State-by-state voting rightsO National Woman’s PartyO 19th Amendment (gave women the

right to vote)

We need to fight prejudice and discrimination!

O Tuskeegee InstituteO National Negro Business LeagueO Niagra MovementO National Association for the

Advancement of Colored PeopleO Society of American IndiansO Mexican American mutualistas

Progressives wanted reform.

Railroad oligopolies were being unfair!

O Interstate Commerce Act/Commission

Were need to preserve our country and conserve our resources!

O U.S. Forest ServiceO National Conservation Commission

Taxes are too high!O “New Freedom” tariff reformO 16th Amendment (

Banks needed to be regulated!

O Federal Reserve Act