The progressive era powerpoint on the progressive era

A historical recounting of historical events that occurred in history of the historical day in the ancient past long before the existence of the present day before the recent past.

1. The Progressive Era
Ch 9

2. The Progressive Era
•"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
•and gave her mother 40 whacks.
•
When she saw what she had done,
•
she gave her father 41."

8. Goals of Progressive Movement
•1. protecting social welfare
•2. promoting moral improvement
•3. creating economic reform
•4. fostering efficiency in government

9. The BeginningsThe Beginnings
•A reform movement
•Piggybacked on several
earlier movements
•Began where populists
stopped

10. Who were they?Who were they?
•Progressives were city
dwellers
•Middle-class, well educated
•Moderates= success
•No specific race or class

11. Who were they?Who were they?
•Progressives were city
dwellers
•Middle-class, well educated
•Moderates= success
•No specific race or class

12. The MuckrakersThe Muckrakers
•Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
(1906)
•Ida Tarbell for McClure’s
Mag.
•Jacob Riis: plight of the
immigrant in NYC

14. Chicago Meat-packing Plant
1919

15. •Upton Sinclair: The
Jungle (1906)

17. City ChangesCity Changes
•City Commission set up to
better execute clean up
and relief after natural
disasters
•City Manager-appointed
to run city departments
more efficiently

18. State GovernmentState Government
•Recall
•Referendum
•Initiative
•Primary system

19. CourtsCourts
•Holden v. Hardy
–Women’s hours in mining
and steel
•Muller v. Oregon
–Women’s employment in
hazardous jobs

20. New AmendmentsNew Amendments
•16
th
: income tax-federal tax on
income
•17
th
: Direct election of senators-
until then senators were elected
by state government
•18
th
: Prohibition-NO ALCOHOL
•19
th
: Women’s right to vote

21. Prohibition enforcement
“Who’s Idea is this?”

22. Women’s Suffrage—the VOTE

23. Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton

24. Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony

25. Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt
•B. October 27, 1858
•Very skinny, sickly child
•Unconquerable spirit
–Taught body to overcome
ailments
–Was a very very active person
–Made Harvard boxing team

27. Cowboy Teddy

31. As PresidentAs President
•Wanted active government
–“Bully Pulpit”-President speaking
directly to the people
•Define goals-fix the problem
•Set the policies, don’t wait for
congress
•Give people a square deal

33. •Trustbuster
•Only went after “bad trusts”
–Northern Securities Co. (J.P.
Morgan)
•Elkins Act (1903)
–No refunds from railroads
•Hepburn Act (1906)
–Gov’t can cut rail rates
–Regulate pipelines

35. •Meat Inspection Act (1906)
•Pure Food & Drug Act
–Must label what is in the
product
•Settled a # of strikes
personally

36. Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington
•Work your way up to
equality
•Tuskegee Institute

37. W.E.B. DuBoisW.E.B. DuBois
•Harvard Professor
•Fight to get rid of
discrimination
•N.A.A.C.P (1909) @
Niagara Convention
•Government must step up

38. W.E.B
DuBois

40. Yosemite Valley

44. William
Taft

45. William H. TaftWilliam H. Taft
•B. September 15, 1857 (OH)
•Always wanted to be a
lawyer
•@ 30 becomes a state
supreme court judge
•Appointed federal court
judge by Harrison

49. As PresidentAs President
•Main issue: Tariff
•Got pushed around, seemed
weak
•Wanted a lower tariff, signed a
higher one.
–Payne –Aldrich Act
•Problems with Joe Cannon-
Speaker of the House

50. Joe Cannon

52. VictoriesVictories
•16
th
Amendment
•Broke up a lot of trusts
•8 hr. workday for federal
employees
•Cleans up congressional
campaigns

53. •New Mexico and Arizona
become states

59. Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson
•B. December 29, 1856
•Thomas Woodrow Wilson
•Father was a Presbyterian
minister
•Very intelligent, perfectionist
•Law degree from Princeton
(1879)

62. As PresidentAs President
•Strong willed, intelligent
–No charm, came across snobby
•Gave message to Congress in
person
•Underwood Tariff
–Lowered tariff, included income
tax

67. •Federal Reserve Act (1913)
–Creates the Federal Reserve
•Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
–Stated what corps. Could and
could not do
•Federal Trade Commission
–Keep an eye on corporations
•Had a lot of child labor laws
put down by Supreme court

68. Federal Reserve System

70. African AmericansAfrican Americans
•Wilson segregates
government offices
•Large #’s move north (Jim
Crow Laws)