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The Progressive Movement

The Progressive Movement. Attacks against the rich. Henry Demarest Lloyd - Wealth against Commonwealth. Standard Oil. Bloated Trusts. Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class . “predatory wealth” & “conspicuous consumption.”

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The Progressive Movement

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  1. The Progressive Movement

  2. Attacks against the rich. • Henry Demarest Lloyd- Wealth againstCommonwealth. Standard Oil. Bloated Trusts. • Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of theLeisure Class. “predatory wealth” & “conspicuous consumption.” • Jacob A. Riis - How the other half lives. New York slums.

  3. Muckrakers • Journalism. • McClures, Cosmopolitan, Collier’s, Everbody’s. • Exposure of public wrongs. • More democracy would cure the ills.

  4. Democracy in action • Initiative: A procedure whereby ordinary citizens could propose laws for consideration by their state legislatures. • Referendum: A procedure whereby citizens could vote directly on whether to approve public laws. • Recall: A public official could be removed from office by a direct vote of the citizens.

  5. More Demo • Secret Ballot: Public voting and voter records were kept until this time. • Direct primary: Party candidates chosen by rank-and-file party members instead of party bosses. • Direct election of US Senators: Seventeenth Amendment. (1913) • Women’s Suffrage: Nineteenth Amendment. (1920)

  6. Efficiency • City manager system. Paid professional administrators ran the day-day affairs of the city. • Centralization of decision-making process. Streamline government. • Movements to eliminate government corruption.

  7. Regulation of Large Corporations and Monopolies • Laissez-Faire: Let the market decide. • Trust-busting: Suppression of competition. • Regulation: Some large corporations or monopolies are inevitable and maybe even desirable, but they need supervision. • Socialism: Government should acquire ownership of large corporations and run them for the public good.

  8. Social Justice • Development of professional social workers. Welfare and charity work should be done by professionals. • The building of Settlement Houses. Raise the standard of living by providing schools, day care centers and cultural enrichment programs. • Child Labor Laws: School vice work.

  9. Social Justice con’t • Support for the goals of organized labor. Eight hour work day, improved health and safety conditions, workman’s compensation, minimum wage, Unionization. • Prohibition laws. Eighteenth Amendment (1919)

  10. Odds and ends • TR’s square deal. • Panic of 1907. • Conservation. • Election of 1908. • Taft as president. • Dollar diplomacy.

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