The Progressive Era: 1900 1917

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The Progressive Era1900- 1917

• Chapter 21

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The Progressive Era

• New purpose and function of government
• Changes in government policies and institutions
• Political agitation
• Newspapers and journalism

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Muckrakers

• The Muckrakers
• exposed and attempted to correct graft and
  corruption in both government and business
• Nationwide
• Lincoln Steffens
• The Shame of the Cities

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Muckrakers

• Ida Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil
  Company
• Upton Sinclair - The Jungle

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Municipal Reforms

• City-wide elections
• City managers
• Commissioners
• Municipal Utilities
• City planning

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State Government

• Robert LaFollete
• Wisconsin Idea
• Hiram Johnson California
• Workers compensation
• Other Reforms
• Initiative
• Referendum
• Recall
• Direct Primary

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Race

• Lack of moral tone
• 1,100 lynchings 1900 1917
• Mixed message
• Washington vs. DuBois
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Niagara Movement
• NAACP - 1910

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Moral Tone

• Limiting working hours - women
• Temperance
• WCTU
• Suffrage

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Labor

• Socialist Party of America
• American Railway Union
• Eugene V. Debs
• Industrial Workers of the World
• One Big Union
• Reform

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The Progressive Era
Legislation Meat Inspection Act 1906 Pure Food
and Drug Act 1906 Federal Reserve
Act 1913 Clayton Antitrust Act 1914 Federal
Trade Commission Act 1914
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The Constitution

• Income Taxes 16th Amendment
• 1913
• Direct Election of Senators 17th Amendment 1917
• Prohibition 18th Amendment 1919
• Women Suffrage 19th Amendment 1920

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Foreign Policy

• Desire for a canal
• Phillipe Bunau-Varilla
• Caribbean
• Speak softly
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Russo- Japanese War

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Summary

• Time of dramatic change
• Role of government
• Action by individuals
• Scope
• Transforming
• Modern society
• National in scope, but not inclusive
• Ends abruptly