23) Progressive Movement Flashcards
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Progressives Overview
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- Progressive leaders were primarily middle-class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues
- Reformers believed that government should be used to ameliorate social problems
- Wanted to use government power to regulate industrial production and improve labor conditions
- Rejected Social Darwinism
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Progressive Goal - Democratization of the Political Process
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- Direct election of senators
2. Women’s suffrage
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Progressive Goal - Reform of Local Governments
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- Initiative, recall, and referendum - ways to make local governments more responsive to public opinion
- Commission or city-manager forms of government to make local governments more professional
- Nonpartisan local governments to weaken political machines
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Progressive Goal - Regulation of Big Business
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- Passage of child labor laws
- Passage of antitrust legislation
- Passage of Pure Food and Drug Act
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Progressive Constitutional Amendments
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- 16th Amendment: Congress power to lay and collect income taxes
- 17th Amendment: Senators shall be elected by popular vote
- 18th Amendment: Prohibition
- 19th Amendment: Women’s Suffrage
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16th Amendment (1913)
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- Established Congress’s right to impose a Federal Income Tax
- Designed to relieve the poor of a disproportionate burden in funding the federal government and make the wealthy pay for a greater share of the nation’s tax burden
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17th Amendment (1913)
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- Allowed voters to cast direct votes for Senators (prior, senators were chosen by state legislatures)
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18th Amendment (1920)
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- Prohibition
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19th Amendment (1920)
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- Women’s right to vote
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What did Teddy Roosevelt Reform Initiatives address?
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- Conservation of natural resources and wildlife
- Unsanitary conditions in meatpacking industry
- Monopolization and consolidation of the railroad industry
- Unsafe drug products
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What did Woodrow Wilson Reform Initiatives address?
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- Launched an all-out assault on high tariffs, banking problems, and trusts
- Supported the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 : established a system of district bank by a central board
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Muckrackers
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- Investigative reporters who promoted social and political reforms by exposing corruption and urban problems
- Leading critics of urban bosses and corporate robber barons
- Rise of mass-circulation newspapers and magazines enabled muckrakers to reach a large audience
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State and Local Reforms
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- Many states enacted the initiative, referendum, and recall
- Several states enacted legislation that would undermine the power of the political machine
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Jane Addams
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- Founded the Hull House in Chicago (settlement house)
- Hull house and other settlement houses were dedicated to helping the urban poor
- Settlement-house workers established day nurseries for working mothers, published reports condemning deplorable housing conditions, and taught literacy classes
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union
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- Successfully convinced many women that they had a moral responsibility to improve society by working for prohibition
