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Chapter 11. The Progressive Reform Era. Section 1- Origins of Progressivism. Progressive Era refers to the period from 1890-1920 where a variety of reforms were enacted Rapid industrialization Pg. 383. Progressives. Focus mainly on helping the poor and the industrial workers
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Chapter 11 The Progressive Reform Era
Section 1- Origins of Progressivism • Progressive Era refers to the period from 1890-1920 where a variety of reforms were enacted • Rapid industrialization Pg. 383
Progressives • Focus mainly on helping the poor and the industrial workers • The Gov should be more accountable for the citizens • Less Gov corruption • More child labor Laws • Did not seek a ban on strikes, Labor Unions? Pg. 383
Injunctions- court orders that prohibit a certain activity • Usually prevented workers from going on strike Pg. 385
Reformers • Henry George and Edward Bellamy were both journalists • George wrote Progress and Poverty and Bellamy wrote Looking Backward • Their ideas influenced the Populists Party Platform in 1892 • George and Bellamy both wrote about ideas for reforming society Pg. 384
Upton Sinclair • Muckrakers • The Jungle- poverty, living/working conditions, and lack of hygiene during the Progressive Era Pg. 385
Florence Kelly • Prohibiting child labor, limiting worker hours, and regulating sweatshop conditions in Illinois in 1893 • Why would some people not like progressives? Pg. 386
Section 2- Progressive Legislation • Social welfare programs- ? • September 8, 1900 a hurricane hit Galveston killing 6,000 people in 18 hrs • The city created an emergency commission of 5 appointed administrators • Pg. 390
Power to the People • Robert La Follete • Direct primary- an election which citizens vote to select nominees for elections • Referendum- voters can vote on bills directly • Initiative • Recall Pg. 392
TR as President • 1902, United Mine Workers called a strike and TR called for arbitration • “square deal” • Cracked down on big businesses • Set aside 200 million acres for national forests • Regulated food and drugs Pg. 394-395
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Section 3- Progressivism Under Taft and Wilson • Taft is President- 1908 • Taft chose Richard Ballinger for Sec of Interior (oversees National Park Service) • Ballinger upset conservationists- ? • Republicans were angry at Taft because the Ballinger-Pinchot affair Pg. 396-397
The Election of 1912 • Taft, Roosevelt, Wilson • Progressive Party or the Bull Moose Party • Oct. 14 in Milwaukee, TR was shot • “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose” • TR and Taft ended up splitting Republican votes • Pg. 397
Wilson wins election • Federal Reserve System- Woodrow Wilson • 12 districts • Why did Progressivism die after Wilson’s 2nd term? Pg. 400-403
Section 4- Suffrage at Last • Civil Disobedience Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Anthony was arrested in 1872 when she led women to the poles in NY to vote, fined $100 Pg. 404
1890, National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) • by this time, women could buy, sell, and will property • The women’s right to vote failed again and again, after Stanton and Anthony died, it was up to a new generation to gain the right to vote • Pg. 405-406
Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul became the new leaders in women’s suffrage • Paul organized a parade of 5000 in Washington DC • Aggressive militant approach caused a split Pg. 406
Catt continued on with NAWSA and ended up gaining lots support, even winning suffrage in New York • With the U.S. entering WWI in 1917, women • volunteered with medical help and took over jobs left • by men • Suffrage Support? • Pg. 406-407
Carrie Chapman Catt lead NAWSA to victoryand eventually to the end of women’s suffrage • 1919, 19th Amendment? • “It is doubtful that any man…ever realized what the suffrage struggle came to mean to women…It leaves a mark on one, such a struggle.”