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Progressivism:Changing Relationship between Business and Government
Pressure to Regulate Business
• Problems• Child Injuries• Wealth Gap• Low Wages• Unfair Business
Practices• Corruption• Health and Sanitary
Conditions
Pressures on the System
Third Parties• The growth of the
People’s Party (Populist), and the Progressive (Bull Moose), and Socialists took votes away from the major parties
• Major parties started adopting positions of the Progressives to attract voters
Labor Unions• Strikes disrupt the
economy• What to do with unskilled
workers and immigrants• Child Laborers• Farmers / The Grange• Unpopularity of using
federal troops to break strikes
Pressures on the System
Urbanization• Overcrowding• Widespread Poverty• Anti-immigrant Feelings• Sanitation• Need for infrastructure
and basic necessities
Corruption• Widespread Corruption• Influence of the elite• Party
Machines/Patronage• Laissez-Faire Policies
that empower the richest of society
Pressures on the System
Muckrakers• Stories placed public
pressure on the government to make changes
• Stories focused on• Corruption• Public Health• Sanitation• Greed• Business Practices
Beginning of Government Reforms
Reforms
Child Labor Act of 1916
Meat Inspection
Act
Pure Food and Drug
Act
Interstate Commerce
Act
Sherman Anti-Trust
Act
Clayton Anti-Trust
Act
Organic Act of 1916
Reforms
• Populist Reforms (meaning that they benefitted the main population or the common people) were targeted at restricting the power of industries and corporations.
Activities
• Government took on the role of police officer or administrator
instead of friend and ally.• Time to research!
• Find the information about each of the presidents, acts, and
agencies who reformed America.