Progressive LegislationProgressive Legislation

Chapter 11, Section 2Chapter 11, Section 2

Terms• All vocabulary termsAll vocabulary terms

• Triangle Company FireTriangle Company Fire

• Robert M. La FolletteRobert M. La Follette

• ““bully pulpit”bully pulpit”

• Square DealSquare Deal

• Sherman Antitrust ActSherman Antitrust Act

TSC Fire• 10-story Asch building (10-story Asch building (NYCNYC))

• 600 workers600 workers

• 88thth floor fire floor fire

• Frances Perkins watches Frances Perkins watches from streetfrom street

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Reaction• Call for social welfare Call for social welfare

programsprograms• Municipal levelMunicipal level

• RobertRobertLa FolletteLa Follette

• WorkplaceWorkplacereformsreforms

TR• ““Bully pulpit”Bully pulpit”

• 1902 Coal Strike1902 Coal Strike• Square DealSquare Deal

• Sherman Antitrust ActSherman Antitrust Act

• Pure Food and Drug ActPure Food and Drug Act

• Meat Inspection ActMeat Inspection Act

An Expanded Role for GovernmentAn Expanded Role for Government

• Progressives sought more social welfare programs to help ensure a minimum standard of living.

• Many of the earliest Progressive reforms were made at the municipal, or city, level.

• Some municipal reformers worked for home rule, a system that gives cities a limited degree of self-rule.

An Expanded Role for GovernmentAn Expanded Role for Government

• Municipal reformers opposed the influence of political bosses.

• Reformers made efforts to take over city utilities such as water, gas, and electricity.

• Some reform mayors led movements for city-supported welfare services such as public baths, parks, work-relief programs, playgrounds, kindergartens, and lodging houses for the homeless.

Outlawed monopolies and practices that restrained trade, such as price fixing.

Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890

Created to plan and develop irrigation projects.National Reclamation Act, 1902

Created to manage the nation’s water and timber resources.

United States Forest Service, 1905

Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroad rates.

Hepburn Act, 1906

Banned interstate shipping of impure food and deliberate mislabeling of food and drugs.

Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906

Required federal inspection of meat processing to ensure sanitary conditions.

Meat Inspection Act, 1906

Cabinet department created to promote the welfare and employment of working people.

Department of Labor, 1913

Gave Congress the power to levy an income tax.

16th Amendment, 1913

Provided for the direct election of senators.17th Amendment, 1913

Created Federal Reserve System of government banks to supervise private banks and provide a flexible money supply.

Federal Reserve Act, 1913

Created to administer the nation’s parks.National Park Service, 1916

Prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor. (Repealed in 1933)

18th Amendment, 1919

Granted women full suffrage.19th Amendment, 1920

Created within the Department of Labor to improve the status of working women.

Women’s Bureau, 1920