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The Progressive Era, 1900-1916. An Urban Age and a Consumer Society. The Rise of the City. The Muckrakers. Lincoln Steffens. Upton Sinclair. Ida Tarbell. The Immigrant. The Working Woman. The New Standard of Living and Consumer Culture . Components of Progressive America. Eugene Debs. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Progressive Era, 1900-1916
An Urban Age and a Consumer
Society
The Rise of the CityYear Urban
Population (Percentage)
Number of Cities with 100,000+
population1880 20% 12
1890 28% 15
1900 38% 18
1910 50% 21
1920 68% 26
The Muckrakers
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
The ImmigrantCity Percenta
geNew York
City76%
Cleveland 72%Boston 72%Chicago 71%Detroit 65%
San Francisco
64%
Minneapolis
63%
Pittsburg 59%Seattle 55%
Los Angeles
45%
The Working WomanYear All Women Married
WomenWomen as %
of Labor Force1900 20.4% 5.6% 18%1910 25.2 10.7 241920 23.3 9.0 241930 24.3 11.7 25
Occupation 1900 1920Professional,
Technical8.2% 11.7%
Clerical 4.0 18.7Sales Workers 4.3 6.2Unskilled and Semiskilled
manufacturing
23.7 20.2
Household Workers 28.7 15.7
The New Standard of Living and Consumer Culture
Components of
Progressive America
Industrial Freedom
Socialism
AFL and IWW (Labor)
Feminism
Eugene Debs
IWW
Isadora Duncan
Emma Goldman
Margaret Sanger
Progressive Politics
State and Local Reforms
Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones
Robert M. LaFollette
Jane Addams and Hull House
Jane Adams
Ellen Gates Starr
Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
Louis D. Brandeis
Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1908
John Muir and President Roosevelt in Yosemite, 1903
Election of 1908
William Howard Taft, 1908-1912
Election of 1912
1912 Presidential Election Results
Strong third-party challenges from the Progressive Party and Socialists split the national vote four ways, but Democrat Wilson prevailed to win the presidency in 1912.
Woodrow Wilson, 1912-1920
Wilson ProgressivismLegislation Date Purpose
Underwood Tariff 1913 Reduced duties on foreign imports so that small businesses could thrive
Clayton Act 1914 Exempted labor unions from anti-trust laws
Keating Own Act 1916 Outlawed child labor in the manufacture of goods sold in interstate commerce
Federal Reserve Act 1913 Federally run institution that issued currency, set rates for loans, and held funds in reserve for crisis situations
Federal Trade Commission
1914 Had the power to order companies to cease unfair trading practices
Income Taxes 1913 Started with richest 5% to offset revenue of lowering tariff. Made constitutional by 16th Amendment
