progressive era reform. today is the last day to turn in your review for credit!!!!
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Match the following
1. The goal was to break up monopolies and promote competition.
2. Required applicants to pass exams for government jobs.
3. Required Rail Roads to charge all customers the same rates.
4. Purchase of Alaska.
a. Pendleton Civil Service Act.
b. Seward’s Folly
c. Interstate Commerce Act (Interstate Commerce Commission)
d. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Warm Up: Use page 383 to answer the following in your notebook
1.In what sections of the U.S. did Populism thrive?
2. Where did Populists have their roots?
3.To what did these new reformers react?
4.How did industrialization cost some members of society?
Progressive Beliefs“Government should”
1. Be more accountable to its
citizens
2. Protect workers & help the poor
Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle” exposes dangerous conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Henry George wanted to make land speculation less profitable by imposing a single tax on the value of land.
Their articles & books exposed corruption &
inspired many to join efforts for reform:
1. Lincoln Steffens
2. Ida Tarbell
3. Upton Sinclair
Reform OrganizationsLabor Movement
1. Employers discourage union membership
2. Injunctions-court orders prohibit certain
activities e.g strikes
Socialists1. Wanted to end capitalist system
2. Distribute wealth equally
3. Govt. ownership of American industries
Women ReformersFlorence Kelley:
Convinced states to abolish child laborAlong w/ Jane Addams worked to reform local labor conditions
Mother Jones:Organized unions in mines of WV & CO
Power to Voters1. Direct primary- citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections
2. Initiative- citizens propose new laws
3. Referendum- allows citizens to approve/reject laws
4. Recall- voters remove public officials from office
Roosevelt & Reform
Record included:1. Conservation of land-
more than 200 million acres
2. Breakup of trusts
3. Regulation of food & drugs
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
1. Management of public lands
2. Ballinger opposed conservation policies on
federal land
3. Pinchot-head of US Forest Service
The Bull Moose Party“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.” TR1. Name comes from
TRcomment
2. Platform supported women's suffrage
Wilson as President1. Clayton Antitrust Act
favored by labor unions
2. FTC given power to stop businesses
from unfair business tactics
The Federal Reserve 1.
Established to
reorganize federal bank
2. Created in response to
economic overhaul
Arguments Against Suffrage
1. Would make women
“too masculine”
2. Easily manipulated
3. Distract from home
Susan B. Anthony
Civil disobedience:nonviolent refusal to
obey a law
Nations most famous suffragist
Arrested for insisting on voting