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Positives of progressivism
The place is growing and moving forward
What is progressivism
A belief by mainly middle class Americans that social, economic and political progress of the nation required the intervention by concerned citizens willing to initiate reforms at local, state, and national level
Conservative view of progressivism
You are letting the government take complete control of you
How long did progressivism last?
1890’S to the end of WWI
The issues progressivism wanted to solve
Fair business practices, public health, honesty in government, women’s suffrage,
Where/what were the settlement house movements?
Established in poor neighborhoods, only living with the poor= bridge class divide, women formed the backbone, and this is a secular movement
What is the social gospel
Christian vision of reforming individuals & society
What belief does the social gospel connect with?
Social Darwinism/ gospel of wealth
Founder of social gospel?
Washington Gladden
Beliefs and goals of the temperance/prohibition
Attacks on alcohol, hand in hand with social purity, element of nativism, and environment, not heredity= human behavior
What was sympathetic to the settlement houses
Labor
What was the alliance?
Cross- class alliance ?
What did the WTUL
Working and middle class women unite, under American Federation of Labor
What happened to the triangle shirt waist company after the public outcry over building safety codes and when?
1911, 146 women died, brown building (NYU Science Lab)
Who is Jane Addams?
Pioneer in th settlement house movement, founded Hullhouse in Chicago
Lillian Wald
“Mother of public health nursing” founded the henry street settlement
Who is Florence Kelley
Led the National consumer league to protect women and children
Progressivism problem solutions
Government should be more active, social problems are impacted by government action & legislation, money is needed to fix problems, reliance upon scientific investigation and academic expertise
What did the reform of Darwinism and social engineering do?
Questioned survival of the fittest and use intellect to reform environment
What are technocrats?
Scientific bureaucrats who attempt to control social change
Who said blind natural forces in society must give way to human foresight?
Frank ward a sociologist
In 1900 progressivism won elections in both what?
Local and state government
Who was the progressive crusader from 1899-1909?
Tom Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
What was the issue did Tom Johnson have and what was it called?
Mayor Tom Johnson v. Streetcars; wanted to lower prices of fares from 5 cents to 3 cents; he did this by instituting a new tactic of municipal ownership
How many times did Tom Johnson get reelected and why?
Reelected 4 times, but lost eventually because of reforms like the streetcars
What is a referendum?
The practice of submitting a measure passed or proposed by legislature to the citizens for their approval
What is a recall?
The removal of a public official from office taken by a vote of the people after a petition drive has been certified
Initiative
A procedure by which citizens propose an ordinance or an amendment and bring it to a popular vote for approval or rejection
Progressive crusader from 1911-1917
Hiram Johnson, Governor of CA and one of the founders of the progressive party
Who kills McKinley and who becomes president after him ?
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition and Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
What did TR suffer from
Asthma
What are three professions of TR?
Politician, author, soldier and youngest man to move into the White House
What were TR political views
Republican and leader of progressives
Who was the first president to have secret service?
TR
What did TR do as president ?
Strengthened government, anti- laissez faire, viewed wealthy capitalist as criminals
What was the name of Roosevelt’s campaign slogan?
The Square deal
What did the campaign slogan of TR consist of ?
Natural resources, control of big business, consumer protection and believed in the stewardship theory, and presidency was a bully pulpit
What was the trust buster of 1904
Northern Securities S.C. Case
What did the arbitrator cause
The United mine workers strike
What did the square include?
Roosevelt threatened seize of mines, 1906, “meat inspection act and pure food and drug act are signed into law by TR, ban mislabeled food products, eventually leads to the FDA
What are Muckrakers?
People that had a style of journalism that exposed corruption of big business and government
What book was most important from the Muckrakers
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
What was roosevelts contribution to conservation
He went from 43 million acres of forest in government resources to 194 million acres
Who was Gifford and what did he do?
Headed the national forest service and was the chief forester
Who was John Muir and what did he do?
Helped establish Yosemite National park founded and head by Sierra club
TR view of foreign policy
Involved and aggressive
What did TR support
Monroe doctrine and the idea of supremacy of the civilized nations
What happened for the Panama Canal to be built
Colombians reject 10 million dollar and 250 k yearly , Panama Canal took ten years to build and costed 350 million, 5,500 american lives lost
TR wielded what?
The big stick in the Western Hemisphere
What was the Monroe doctrine?
European powers should stay out of the Western Hemisphere and we stay out of European affairs
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
In order to prevent such intervention, the U.s. Was justified in acting first (Latin American must act with decent to prevent brutality)
What prize does TR win and why?
Nobel peace prize after helping Japan and Russia negotiate the treaty of Portsmouth
