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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
