when was the progressive era
1900-1917
specific goals
ending political corruption
protecting workers improving working conditions
equality for women and AA
ending child labor
returning to traditional democratic values
temperance banning alcohol
improving housing and city living conditons
expanding public edu
what are the 5 types of progressives
new intellectuals(social scientists)
muckrakers(journalists expose political)
religious reformers(social gospel movement)
women(sufferage)
AA
industrialization
natural resources ideas and growing markets industrial boom
urbanization
growth of cities mostly in the regions of the northeast and Midwest
monopoly
one company has control over its industry production wadges and prices
trust
multiple companies that link up to reduce competition
Eugene Debs
Leader of the American Railway Union, he voted to aid workers in the Pullman strike. He was jailed for six months for disobeying a court order after the strike was over.
tenement
multifamily urban dwelling
Jane Adams
Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak Englis
Settlement House
community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in community especially immigrants
Ida Wells
African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores
Booker T Washington
African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality. accommodation education
W E B DuBois
first AA to receive doctorate from Harvard thought AA should fight social equality and gain rights
Muckraker
1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business
Political Reforms
Direct Primary
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
direct primary
direct vote by the people local elections
17th Amendent
Direct Election of Senators
Initiative
people originate a bill and gov approves
A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment.
Referendum
gov originate law people vote
a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate
recall
remove elected official from office
Susan B Anthony
social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
Suffrage
right to vote
Upton Sinclair
muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen.
Teddy Roosevelt
26th President, from 1901-1909, passed two acts that purified meat, took over in 1901 when McKinley was shot, Went after trusts, formed the "Bull Moose Party", wanted to build the Panama canal, and make our Navy ( military stronger )trust buster
Meat inspection act
1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
pure food and drug act
1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.
NAACP
National Association for the advancement of colored people 1909
19th ammendment
Gave women the right to vote
Woodrow wilson
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points
16 ammendment
Income tax legal
18th ammendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages
what was the impact of the progressive era
large gov expansion new gov role protector of public interest
gov was charged with tackling the problems of rapid industrialization and urbanization
Economic Impact
Gov regulation of big business
1916 congressional workers compensation law
limited workday for women
meat inspection and pure food and drug act
1916 child labor regulation
16 am
trust busting sherman and clayton anti trust act
political impact
referendum recall initiative direct primary
17 am
gov officials more accountable to citizens voters taxpayers citizen have more political power
social impact
compulsory public education
school year increases education curriculum studied
18amd
19amd
women empowerment
triangle shirtwaist fire
March 1911 fire in New York factory that trapped young women workers inside locked exit doors; nearly 50 ended up jumping to their death; while 100 died inside the factory; led to the establishment of many factory reforms, including increasing safety prec