1890 to 1917

“Progressives were reformers who

attempted to solve problems caused by

industrialization, urbanization and

government corruption.”

Progressives wereProgressives were

mostly white ProtestantsMiddle class and native born.

College Educated Professionals Social workers

ScholarsPoliticiansPreachersTeachersWriters

Reform = ProgressTo make gov’t more accountable to citizensLimit power and influence of wealthy industrialists by increased regulationExpand gov’t to help correct social injustices and improve lives of citizens

Eliminate corruption and make government more efficient

When did the movement When did the movement begin?begin?

Farmers organize during the 1870’s

The Grange—1867---local level

Farmer’s Alliance---state level

Populist Party--national levelPeople’s Party

Adopt Populist IdeasAdopt Populist Ideas

Move away from laissez faire with government regulating industry

Make US government responsive to the people (voting)

Limit power of the political bosses.Improve worker’s rights, conditions

for poor and immigrantsClean up the cities

Populists vs ProgressivesPopulists---rural

Progressives---cities

Populists were poor and uneducatedProgressives were middle-class and

educated.

Populists were too radicalProgressives were moderates-

mainstream.

Populists drew attention to problemsProgressives succeeded in making

changes

Areas to ReformAreas to ReformSocial Justice

Political Democracy

Economic Equality

Conservation

Social JusticeSocial Justice Improve working

conditions in industry, regulate unfair business practices, eliminate child labor, help immigrants

and the poor

Political DemocracyPolitical Democracy Give the government

back to the people, get more people voting and

end corruption stemming from political machines.

Political MachinePolitical MachineOrganized group

that controls a cities political party

Give services to voters, businesses

for political, financial supportAfter Civil War, machines gain

control of major cities

Machine organization:

precinct captains, ward bosses, city

boss

The Emergence of

Political Machines

The Role of the Political Boss•May serve as mayor he:

•controls city jobs, business licenses•influenced courts, municipal agencies•arranged building projects community services

•Bosses paid by businesses, get voters’ loyalty, extend influence

Immigrants and the Machine•Many captains, bosses 1st or 2nd generation Americans•Machines help immigrants with naturalization, jobs, housing

Election Fraud and Graft•Machines use electoral fraud to win elections•GraftGraft—illegal use of political influence for personal gain•Machines take kickbacks, bribes to allow legal, illegal activities

Economic JusticeEconomic Justice •Fairness and opportunity in

the work world, regulate unfair trusts and bring about changes

in labor. •Demonstrate to the common

people that U.S. Government is in charge and not the

industrialists.

CONSERVATIONCONSERVATION

Preserve natural resources and

the environment

•Muckrakers were journalists and photographers who exposed the abuses of wealth and power.

•They felt it was their job to write and expose corruption in industry, cities

and government. Muckrakers exposed corruption

but offered no solutions.

MUCKRAKERSMUCKRAKERS

•They believed that if the public could only see or read for itself…..

•There would be an outcry and people would want to help make conditions

better…..

•Or demand the government to make reforms.

““Digging up the dirt”Digging up the dirt” == Investigative Journalism

•Fairness and opportunity in the work world, regulate unfair trusts and bring about

changes in labor. •Demonstrate to the common people that U.S.

Government is in charge and not the industrialists.

Progressive PresidentsProgressive Presidents•Theodore Roosevelt

1901 to 1909•William Howard Taft

1909 to 1913•1912 Election1912 Election

•Woodrow Wilson1913 to 1921

Muckraker

Work Subject Results

Thomas Nast

PoliticalCartoons

Political corruption by NYC's political

machine, Tammany Hall, led by Boss

Tweed.

Tweed was convicted of embezzlement and

died in prison.

Jacob Riis

John Spargo

How the Other Half Lives

(1890)

The Bitter Cry of the Children

Living conditions of the urban poor;

focused on tenements.

Child labor in the factories and education for

children.

NYC passed building codes to promote safety

and health.

Ending child labor and increased enrollment in

schooling.

Investigated dangerous working conditions and unsanitary procedures

in the meat-packing industry.

The Jungle(1906)

Upton Sinclair

In 1906 the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act were passed

Frank Norris

The Octopus (1901)

This fictional book exposed monopolistic

railroad practices in California.

In Northern Securities v. U.S.

(1904), the holding company

controlling railroads in the Northwest was

broken up.

Ida Tarbell

"History of Standard Oil Company" in

McClure's Magazine

(1904)

Exposed the ruthless tactics of the Standard Oil

Company through a series of articles

published in McClure's Magazine.

In Standard Oil v. U.S. (1911), the company was

declared a monopoly and

broken up.

JaneAddams

SOCIAL GOSPEL

Pioneer in the field of social work who founded the settlement house

movement through the establishment of Hull House in Chicago.

MargaretSanger

Educated urban poor about the benefits of family planning through

birth control. She founded the organization that became Planned

Parenthood.

Social Reformers

CityCommissioner

Plan

Cities hired experts in different fields to run a single aspect of city government.

For example, the sanitation commissioner would be in charge of

garbage and sewage removal.

City ManagerPlan

A professional city manager is hired to run each department of the city and

report directly to the city council.

City Reforms

RecallRecall

Allows voters to petition to have an elected representative removed from

office.

InitiativeAllows voters to petition state

legislatures in order to consider a bill desired by citizens.

ReferendumAllows voters to decide if a bill or proposed amendment should be

passed.

Ensures that voters select candidates to run for office, rather than party

bosses.

State Reforms

Secret BallotSecret BallotPrivacy at the ballot box ensures that citizens can cast votes without party bosses knowing how they voted.

Direct PrimaryDirect Primary

Given out only at the polls

Vote in secret

Printed at public expense

Lists names of all candidates and their

parties

CaucusCaucus---small group of individuals who would choose a candidate

ConventionConvention---members from the political parties nominate a candidate

Direct PrimaryDirect Primary---allow registered voters to participate in choosing a candidate

1790 to 18281790 to 1828

1828 to 19001828 to 1900

Current System Current System UsedUsed

electoral

16th Amendment: Income Tax (1913) Progressive income tax assigned higher tax rates

to people with higher incomes.

NATIONAL LEVELNATIONAL LEVEL

17th Amendment: Direct Election of Senators (1913) Increased voters’

power and reduced corruption in Senate

17th Amendment:

Direct Election of Senators (1913) Increased voters’

power and reduced

corruption in Senate

1818thth Amendment: Amendment: Prohibition (1919) Banned manufacture and sale of

alcoholic beverages

•Movement begins at the local, state levels and eventually effects the national level…..

•WCTU or Women’s Christian Temperance Union founded in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio

•Frances Willard•Carrie Nation•Anna Howard Shaw

•Anti-Saloon League

NATIONAL LEVELNATIONAL LEVEL

19th Amendment

•Women’s Suffrage (1920)

•Women won the right to vote

Preparing the Way for Suffrage

American women activists first demanded the right to vote in 1848 at the Seneca Falls ConventionSeneca Falls Convention in New York.

The movement eventually split into two groups: The National Woman Suffrage Association fought

for a constitutional amendment for suffrage. The American Woman Suffrage Association worked

to win voting rights on the state level. In 1890, WyomingWyoming entered the union and became the

first state to grant women the right to vote. In 1872, in an act of civil disobedience, a suffrage

leader, Susan B. Anthony, insisted on voting in Rochester, New York. She was arrested for this act.

19th Amendment provides full suffrage to women in all the states, 1920.

National Reclamation Act

(1902)Roosevelt

Encouraged conservation by allowing the building of dams and irrigations

systems using money from the sale of public lands.

Elkins Act(1903)

Roosevelt

Outlawed the use of rebates by railroad officials or shippers.

Pure Food and Drug Act

(1906/1911)Roosevelt

Required that companies accurately label the ingredients contained in

processed food items.

Meat Inspection Act

(1906)Roosevelt

In direct response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, this law required that meat

processing plants be inspected to ensure the use of good meat and

health-minded procedures.

Progressive Era Federal Legislation

Progressive Era Federal LegislationHepburn Act

(1906)Roosevelt

Strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission, allowing it to

set maximum railroad rates.

Federal Reserve Act

(1913)Wilson

Created 12 district Federal Reserve Banks, each able to issue new currency and loan member banks funds at the prime interest rate, as established by the Federal Reserve

Board.

Clayton Antitrust Act

(1914)Wilson

Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by outlawing the creation of a monopoly

through any means, and stated that unions were not subject to antitrust legislation.

Federal Trade Act(1914)Wilson

Established the Federal Trade Commission, charged with investigating unfair business

practices including monopolistic activity and inaccurate product labeling.

Underwood Tariff1913

Wilson

Substantially reduced import fees and enacted a graduated income tax (under the approval of the

recent 16th Amendment

Keating-OwenAct

1916Wilson

Wilson’s New Freedom

Enacted by U.S. Congress which sought to address the Enacted by U.S. Congress which sought to address the perceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in perceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods manufactured by interstate commerce of goods manufactured by children. Signed into law by President Wilson. Act children. Signed into law by President Wilson. Act declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Courtdeclared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court

•Corrupt political leader put New York City in debt

Political bossPolitical boss

•Kept Democratic Party in power in NYC by organizing a political machine called Tammany Hall

•Formed the Tweed Ring

•Bought votes, encouraged corruption, controlled NYC politics

Exposed for his corruption by cartoonist and editor, Thomas

Nast

Tweed Ring fell and 1873 Tweed

convicted of embezzlement

Later Tweed was arrested on a civil charge and jailed in NYC, later died

there

Upton Sinclairs, The Jungle, exposed the filthy, unsanitary working conditions and corruption in a meatpacking

company in Chicago

                                    

                                                                

President Roosevelt proposed legislation

to clean up the meatpacking industry after

reading The Jungle.

Food and Drug ActFood and Drug Act

Meat Inspection ActMeat Inspection Act

President Roosevelt proposed legislation

to clean up the meatpacking industry after

reading The Jungle.

Food and Drug ActFood and Drug Act

Meat Inspection ActMeat Inspection Act

Square Deal•Reforms of the Progressives

start with President Roosevelt….

•Areas which he wanted to reform and use the “bully pulpit”

of the Presidency were the following:

•Bad Trusts vs. Good Trusts

•Take the side of labor

•Railroads

•Limiting corruption in the workplace

•Conservation

Square Deal•Reforms of the Progressives

start with President Roosevelt….

•Areas which he wanted to reform and use the “bully pulpit”

of the Presidency were the following:

•Bad Trusts vs. Good Trusts

•Take the side of labor

•Railroads

•Limiting corruption in the workplace

•Conservation

Square Deal•TR believed in the “capitalistic system” but believed that the system must be regulated by

US Govt.

•TR was a Hamiltonian but for the betterment of the

“common man” as opposed to benefit the elite.

Square Deal•TR believed in the “capitalistic system” but believed that the system must be regulated by

US Govt.

•TR was a Hamiltonian but for the betterment of the

“common man” as opposed to benefit the elite.

•TR believed the U.S. Government was running the country and not the rich and corrupt industrialists….

•U.S. Government involvement with “regulatory agencies”….Similar to “checks and balances”

TR, the “Trustbuster”

•Department of Labor

•Bureau of Corporations

•Filed more than 40 anti-trust suits using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

•Northern Securities

•Standard Oil

•Swift Beef

Anthracite 1903 Coal Strike

•Union wanted shorter days and higher wages and owners would not negotiate.

•Winter, nation needed coal to heat homes.

•TR calls a White House Conference.

•TR threatens to send in troops to run mines

•Owners back down and TR becomes the “hero” of the common working man.

•Importance:Importance: First time US Govt. took the side of labor in a dispute.

TR’s Conservation PolicyTR’s Conservation Policy•125,000 acres in reserve

•National Reclamation Act 1902

•25 water projects

•Founding of the National Park System

•Federal Children’s Bureau

•Creation of a Dept. of Labor

•8 hr. workday

•Mann-Elkins Act

•Aligns with Conservative

Republicans and splits with

Roosevelt’s Progressives.Goodness gracious, I must have been dozing

•TR runs against Taft for the Republican nomination.

•TR is not nominated for the Republican nomination because the Conservatives

supported Taft.

•Ballinger-Pinochet quarrel,

•Sec. of the Interior Ballinger opened public

lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska to

development

•Angered TR's pro-conservation stand.

•TR forms his own party called the Progressive “Bull Moose Party”……..

•As a result, TR splits the Republican Party and Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) wins election.

GOP Divided by Bull Moose

Equals Democratic Victory!

GOP Divided by Bull Moose

Equals Democratic Victory!

Wilson’s Slogan• New FreedomNew Freedom: restore the

free competition and equal opportunity but not through big government….

• Tackle the “triple wall of triple wall of privilegeprivilege”: the tariff, the banks, and the trusts.

Wilson’s Slogan• New FreedomNew Freedom: restore the

free competition and equal opportunity but not through big government….

• Tackle the “triple wall of triple wall of privilegeprivilege”: the tariff, the banks, and the trusts.

•Wilson passes quite a bit of legislation which was similar to Roosevelt’s New Nationalism….

•Federal Trade Commission •16th Amendment

•Underwood Tariff Bill•Federal Reserve Act

•Clayton Anti-Trust Act

•Wilson passes quite a bit of legislation which was similar to Roosevelt’s New Nationalism….

•Federal Trade Commission •16th Amendment

•Underwood Tariff Bill•Federal Reserve Act

•Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Progressive Movement ends with US entrance into WWIWWI

Wilson’s time is devoted to the WWIWWI

instead of the Progressive Reforms.