Progressivism Flashcards
PIAL
Point Issue Argument Link
MEAT
Main Point Evidence Analysis Transition
Conclusion
Summarise argument and significanxe
Issues Progressives faced
Industrial Capitalism- Labour problem, Voting Rights for Women, Education, Corruption in Govt, Power of Trusts, muckracking, costs vs labour
Who were they (progressives
Reformers, Middle Class
Wanted? Progressives
Business regulation, Professional expertise- Taylorism, Social justice, democracy, efficiency
Caused? Progressives
Political system change, restrict vote, suppressed voters- immigrants and African A’s, literacy requirements and taxes
Roosevelt
Expedition Act, Elkins act, ICC, Department of Commerce and Labour, Meat Inspection Act
William Howard Taft
Trustbuster, ICC, Federal income tax, elections of people
Problems Taft
Payne-Aldrich act- little to lower tariffs, Gifford Pinchot- firing
Wilson
Underwood-Simmons, Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission
African Issues
Plessy vs Ferguson 1896, Primary elections, Grandfather Clause 1867, Wages and unions, Lynching, Birth of Nation
Ida B. Wells
Train seat, Journalistic Crusade, Lynching, Free Speech. Headlight editor, White Supremacy end
Booker T. Washington
little to antagonize, skills, Roosevelt, not volatile
W.E.Dubois-
Washington clash, Scientific Social Analysis, Marxism, world context