Chapter 28 Flashcards
What did the progressives want?
To improve humanity, to use the government to combat monopolies, instill order and instability,
social Gospel movement: it was their Christian duty to be concerned about the poor and immigrants.
Muckrakers: Jacob Riis, upton sinclaiir, Ida Tarbell, frank Norris, Lincoln Steffens
Who are the progressives?
Men, women, middle-class, Protestants
He wrote how the other half lives, he wrote to inform about the children in the streets
Jacob Riis
Wrote the jungle; it was about meatpacking
Upton sinclaiir
Wrote history of the standard oil company
Ida Tarbell
Wrote the I octopus
Frank Norris
Wrote the
Shame of the cities (unmasked corrupt alliance between big businesses and municipal government.
Lincoln Steffens
- investigated the governments role in urban problems.
- tried to make a model government
- The city manager system; city manager’s in charge of municipal affair.
- public ownership of utilities
- minimum wage and maximum working hours were established for city employees.
- some municipalities funded recreational and day care facility.
The national municipal league
State reforms of progressives
- banned child labor
- minimum wage and Max hours to protect women
- worker’s Compensation
- pensions for widows and children when the husband or father was killed on the job
- businesses regulated like railroads insurance companies
- building codes and state inspections (triangle shirtwaist company fire.
- corrupt practices act: made political leaders more liable when wrongdoings happen
- Was elected governor of Wisconsin in 1901
- very militant, progressive Republican leader
- Took power from the trusts and gave it back to the people + scheme for regulating public utilities.
Robert m la follete (fighting bob)
- was elected California governor in 1910
- republican
- broke dominant control of the Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics.
Hiram w. Johnson
Reformist republican governor of New York gained international fame as an investigator malpractices by gas and insurance companies and by the cool trust.
Charles Evan Hughes
Progressive women organizations
Women’s trade Union league, national consumers league, children’s Bureau 1912, women’s bureau 1920
Resident of Jane Addams hull house, became the state of Illinois first chief factory inspector, and one of the nations leading advocates for improved factory conditions. 1899 she took control of national consumers league (mobilized consumers to pressure for laws safeguarding women children in the workplace)
Florence Kelley
What case??
Louis Steve brandeís persuaded the Supreme Court to except the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers (women having weaker bodies).
-now it seems discriminatory, close to many male jobs to women
-employers to control over the workplace
Muller v Oregon 1908
The American Growth burst Daytimers from female activism focused more or lasts on the protecting women and children then on granting benefits to everyone?
More
What Supreme Court case?
The court denied a New York law establishing a 10 hour day for bakers but in 1917 the court upheld a 10 hour-long factory workers. The farms on factories were not enforced. And 1911 triangle shirt waist company in New York–>fire–>146 women died. –> public outcry –> massive strike by women–> New York legislature past stronger laws regulating the hours and conditions of sweatshop toil.
Lochner v New York 1905
Anti-liquor campaigners received support from militant organizations such as women’s Christian temperance union with founder__ who fell to her knees in prayer on the saloon floor, mobilize daily 1 million women, WCTU Largest organization of women in the world
Francis e Willard
Laws that controlled or restricted or abolished alcohol
Dry laws
Theater Roosevelt started demanding a square deal for capital, labor, and the public at large. Embraced the three C’s.
- Control the corporation
- consumer protection
- conservation of natural resources
The __. Was created in 1887 to restrain railroads but it was inadequate. Congress passed an effective railroad legislature, the__: aimed at rebate evil. Heavy fines to be placed on both the railroad that gave rebates, and On shippers that accepted them.
-more effective was the __ that restricted free passes.
Interstate Commerce Commision
Elkins act of 1903
Hepburn act of 1906
Brett Burk described the detail the filth, disease of Chicago’s damp, ill ventilated slaughterhouses. Roosevelt appointing a commission to investigate and found the novel to be true.
Upton sinclairs, the jungle, 1906
Required meat shipped over state lines to be federally inspected
Meat inspection act of 1906
Designed to prevent adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.
Pure food and drug act of 1906
