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SSUSH13. The Student will identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era. Reform Movements in the Progressive Era. Preview and Processing. Who is the man in the picture? What position did he hold? Where was this picture taken?.

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SSUSH13

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  1. SSUSH13 The Student will identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.

  2. Reform Movements in the Progressive Era

  3. Preview and Processing • Who is the man in the picture? • What position did he hold? • Where was this picture taken?

  4. Progressive Era1890-1920 • The progressive movement were reform efforts that were meant to give people opportunities and correct injustices. • Goals: • Protecting social welfare • Promoting moral improvement • Creating economic improvements • Fostering efficiency

  5. Progressive Presidents Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson

  6. Theodore Roosevelt

  7. 1858-New York City • Sickly child • Books caused love for outdoors • 1895-NYC Police Commissioner • Merit system • War of 1898/Spanish American War • Rough Riders-San Juan Hill • 1899- Governor of New York

  8. 1900 election-VP to McKinley (Republican) • Sept. 6, 1901- McKinley assassinated • 26th president

  9. Roosevelt’s Presidency • Federal responsibility for welfare programs • Publicity campaigns= model for future presidents • “bully pulpit” • Square Deal

  10. Federal Government Responsible for: • Trustbusting Sherman Antitrust Act • Railroad Regulation Elkins Act Hepburn Act • Regulating Food and Drugs Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act • Land Conservation National Reclamation Act

  11. Yosemite National Park

  12. Yellowstone National Park

  13. 1908 Election • William Howard Taft-Republican (wins) • William Jennings Bryan-Democrat “Vote for Taft this time, You can vote for Bryan anytime.”

  14. Taft • Born in 1857-son of a judge • Yale Graduate • Federal Circuit Judge by 34. Aspirations for Supreme Court • Civil Administrator in the Philippines(roads, school, economy) • Appointed by TR as Secretary of War

  15. Taft’s Presidency • “Cautiously Progressive” • The Payne-Aldrich Tariff • Land Disputes • Secretary of the Interior: Richard A. Ballinger • 1 million acres

  16. Progressives vs. Old Guard • Republican Party splits • 1912- Bull Moose Party “Welfare of the people” • “as strong as a bull moose”- Roosevelt

  17. Bull Moose Party • Advocated for: • Women’s suffrage • 8 hour workday • minimum wage for women • Federal law against child labor • Direct election of senators (17th Amendment) • Initiative • Recall • Referendum

  18. Making the Connection Define : • Initiative • Recall • Referendum

  19. 1912 Election • Republicans: William H. Taft • Bull Moose: Theodore Roosevelt • Democrats: Woodrow Wilson (wins)

  20. Election • Ran on “New Freedom” • Antitrust, banking reform, reduced tariffs • National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) marched on Wilson’s inauguration.

  21. Wilson • Born 1856 in Virginia • Son of a Presbyterian minister • College of New Jersey (Princeton) • lawyer/history professor/Princeton University professor • 1910 Governor of New Jersey

  22. Wilson’s Presidency • 2 antitrust measures: • Clayton Antitrust Act • Federal Trade Commission • New Tax system • Underwood Act • 16th Amendment-Federal Income Tax • Federal Reserve Act of 1913 • Federal Reserve System

  23. 1910:Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Washington, and Idaho • 1919: Women’s Suffrage (19th Amendment)

  24. Muckrakers

  25. Muckrakers • Journalists • John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress • Examples: • Ida Tarbell • Upton Sinclair • Jacob Riis

  26. Upton Sinclair • The Jungle • Chicago meatpacking industry • Meat Inspection Act

  27. Ida Tarbell • History of the Standard Oil Company

  28. Making the Connection 1. What is the definition of a muckraker? 2. What are some of the issues that present day muckrakers could report on now?

  29. Reform Movements

  30. 3 part strategy for suffrage • Tried to convince legislatures for right to vote • Pursued court cases (using 14th Amendment) • Pushed for an amendment that gave them the right to vote

  31. Addam’s Hull House • Influenced by Toynbee Hall • Ellen G. Starr and Jane Addams 1889 • Civic Responsibility • Day care, libraries, classes, employment bureau

  32. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire • March 25, 1911 • Horrible safety missions • Locked doors • 146 Employees dead

  33. Gained support for workers’ unions • Government now had power to make laws to protect the workers • Workplace conditions had to be improved

  34. Jim Crow • Poll tax/Grandfather clause • Segregation laws • Schools/hospitals/parks/transportation • Lynching

  35. NAACP • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Formed in 1909 • W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Ida B. Wells, Henry Moskowitz • 1917: 9,000 1919: 90,000 300+ local branches

  36. Plessy v. Ferguson • 1896 • Separate but equal

  37. Making the Connection • Who were the progressives? • How successful were the progressives in making progress?

  38. Progressive Amendments • 16 Amendment: income tax • 17 Amendment: Direct Election of senators • 19 Amendment: Women’s Suffrage

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