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While I take Attendance. Go to my classroom website and download your 5.4 Notes. We will fill these in together during class. Progressive Era. Unit 5 Lecture. Progressivism.
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While I take Attendance • Go to my classroom website and download your 5.4 Notes. • We will fill these in together during class.
Progressive Era Unit 5 Lecture
Progressivism • Progressive Movement: the middle-class workers (writers, scholars, teachers) sought to fix certain problems in America through reform. • Four Areas: Social, Moral, Economic, and Government
Social • Child Labor • Improve Life For the Lower Class • Creation of the YMCA • Woman Suffrage • Women worked mostly industrial jobs or agricultural jobs(in the South) • Women started attending college • Marriage wasn’t the only choice for women anymore • Right to Vote • Lobbied State Legislatures • Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho • Supreme Court ruling on the 14th Amendment • Constitutional Amendment – 19th Amendment
Moral • 18th Amendment • Prohibition – forbidding the sell or production of alcohol
Economic • Socialism • Labor unions • Progressive Reforms to make factories safer • Scientific Management – simpler tasks – Assembly Line • 16th Amendment – Income tax to generate money for government programs
Government • Fair Elections • Secret Ballot (Australian Ballot) • Voting • Initiative – a bill originated by the people instead of legislature • Referendum – a vote by the people on an Initiative • Recall – a way to remove elected officials from office • Direct Primary – the people decide who runs for office based on a primary vote (ex. Presidential Races) • Direct Election of Senators – 17th Amendment
Political Changes • Direct Primary • Recall • Initiative • Referendum
amendments • 16th Amendment • Income Tax is legal • 17th Amendment • Direct Election of Senators • 18th Amendment • Alcohol is Illegal • 19th Amendment • Women’s Suffrage
Federal trade commission (FTC) • Created by Woodrow Wilson • Groundwork laid by Theodore Roosevelt • Responsible for regulating businesses (corporations) on the stock market. • Prevent corporations from engaging in unfair and deceptive tactics (Netflix and Walmart) • Keeping legal and accurate business records (Enron)