Muckrakers

1

• Journalists who exposed social and economic
  evils inspiring
• Reform
• Teddy Roosevelt gave them the nickname
• Lincoln Steffens Shame of the Cities looked into
  the slums of
• Philadelphia
• Upton Sinclair The Jungle examined deplorable
  conditions in
• The meat packing industry
• Jacob Riis photographed the poor and child
  workers
• Ida Tarbell exposed the corrupt business
  practices of
• Rockefeller and Standard Oil inspired government
  to
• Challenge monopolies and trusts

• Muckrakers

2

• NAACP

FOUNDER W.E.B. Dubois MISSION To fight
against discrimination In society CURRENT
STATUS Still a leading Civil Rights
Organization today
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored Peoples
3

• Muller vs. Oregon

Florence Kelley -- A Woman of Fierce Fidelity

• She was an activist who fought for womens rights
• Won them the right to work 10 hours a day and 6
  days a week

4

• suffrage

• This granted women suffrage
• FAMOUS WOMEN
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Carrie Chapman Catt

• 19th Amendment

5
He believed blacks should be patient and work
blue Collar jobs to gain Economic status

• Booker
• T.

He founded the Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama

• Washington

6

• Progressive nurse, she
• believed in birth control
• Believed that giving women
• Access to birth control gave
• them more power and
• independence
• Founder of the Planned
• Parenthood

• Margaret Sanger

7

• Reform in City Government

• Reforms to clean up political machines of the
  cities City Manager and Commission Systems
• Places educated experts in charge of the city
  made decisions based on planning and welfare of
  the people

8

• state level reform

• Allowed the people to directly vote for and
  choose candidates in elections
• Took power away from the political parties and
  gave more power to people

• Direct Primary

9

• Referendum

• state level reform

• allowed voters to vote directly on a law or
  particular issue

10

• Recall

Allows voters to remove certain elected officials
from office if they are not performing adequately
11

• The Pure Food and Drug Act 1906

• Led to the creation of the Food and Drug
  Administration
• Inspired by Upton Sinclairs book The Jungle

12

• W.E.B Dubois

• First African American to graduate from Harvard
• Found the NAACP
• Believed blacks deserved their equal rights
• immediately and they should get their
• rights through increased
• educational opportunities

13

• Robert La Folette

• 'Fighting Bob'

• Progressive governor of Wisconsin
• Took on the political machines
• Fought for state reforms for example
  referendums, recall, and initiative

14

• state level reform

• Initiative

• Allowed voter to directly introduce a law for
  other voters to decide upon
• If the introduced law is voted on then this
  process is called the referendum

15

• square deal

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Roosevelts domestic policy
• Busts Trusts and Monopolies
• Restores competition, conservationism
• And advocates for the rights of
• workers and common people

• square deal

• square deal

• square deal

16

• UMW Coal Strike in PA

• 1902 settled the coal miners strike by sending it
  to
• arbitration
• Arbitration a conflict to be decided by an
  independent party
• The first time government took the side of the
  workers in a labor dispute
• Made Roosevelt wildly popular

• Arbitration

17

• 17th Amendment

• Allowed citizens of the U.S. to
• directly elect their own senators
• Gave more say in government
• to the common person

18

• Conservationism

• Industrialization and expansion were wreaking
• havoc on the environment
• Theodore Roosevelt and friends John Muir
• and Gifford Pinchot set aside huge tracts of
• wilderness for protection

• National Parks

• Water

19

• 16th Amendment

• Income Tax

• Allowed the federal government to tax workers
  income
• It was passed as a way for government to raise
  moneythus providing more services to American
  citizens

20

• Woodrow Wilson
• New Freedom

• He was the third progressive president
• Famous for his leadership during WWI and
• his moralistic leadership
• He passed the Underwood Tariff, Workmans
• Compensation, and the Federal Reserve Act

21

• Workmen's
• Compensation

• Began in New Jersey
• Allowed workers payment if they suffer a job
  related injury
• Provides a safety net for workers and encourages
  owners to improve dangerous conditions

22

• Underwood Tariff 1914

• Lowered the tariff (tax on imports) to allow
  foreign companies to sell their products more
  easily in America
• With increased competition the trusts and
  monopolies were forced to lower their prices

23

• Clatyon Anti-Trust Act

• This act strengthened the Sherman Anti-trust Act
• Made trusts illegal and allowed workers to strike
  and boycott as long as it was peaceful
• Goal restore competition to economy

24

• 18th Amendment

• Prohibited the manufacture, distribution
• and sale of alcohol in America
• Starts the Prohibition Era!!!
• Showed that progressives were moralistic
• and often religious in nature

25

• Law passed by congress in 1906 which gave the
• Interstate Commerce Commission power to set
• maximum railroad rates

• Hepburn Act

26

• Interstate Commerce Commision

• Agency established to regulate freight rates
• Established the Interstate Commerce Act
• in 1887

27

• William Howard Taft

• Conservative president eager to maintain the
  status quo (keep things the same)
• Alienates progressives

28

• Eugene Debs

• Leader of the Socialist Party of America 1901
• Mission Historic mission of the working class to
  
• do away with capitalism and institute a classless
  society
• Wanted a society in which workers controlled both
  the government and the means of production

• Socialism

29

• Divided the country into 12 districts each with a
  federal reserve bank
• All national banks were required to become
  members
• Stands as Woodrow Wilsons greatest domestic
  achievement.

• The Federal Reserve Act

30

• Jane Adams

• Located in Chicago
• Adams vowed to help the poor
• Lobbied for schools, public parks, and better
  garbage collection

• The Hull House