Progressivism Flashcards
What are Muckrakers
Journalist who expose problems about corruption and abusement
What is Progressivism
Reform Movement
“How the other half live” by
Jacob Riss
Where does the Progressive Movement have their roots?
The Progressives had their roots in the Greenback Labor Party of the 1870s and 1880s and the Populist (or People’s) Party of the 1890s.
“The Financier” and “The Titan” by
Theodore Dresser ,who also wrote “Sister Carrie”, exposéd corruption of banks
What was the purpose of the progressive?
Use government as a tool to reform
“Shame of the Cities” by Lincoln Stephens
In 1902, Lincoln Steffens launched a series of articles in McClure’s entitled “The Shame of the Cities,” in which he unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and the government.
Ida Torbellis
Exposed ruthlessness of the Standard Oil Trust
John Spargo’s “The Bitter Cry of the Children” exposed what?
Child labor
What are the “tools” of the Progressive?
Initiatives
Referendum
Recall
Australian Ballot
Progressives were mostly?
Middle class citizens
What were the four amendments pass due to the progressive movement?
16- Income tax
17- direct election of senators
18- prohibition
19- women’s suffrage
Example of local government reform?
Galveston, TX the city-manager system, which was designed to take politics out of municipal administration.
example of local government reform in Wisconsin?
In Wisconsin, Governor Robert M. La Follette wrestled control from the trusts and returned power to the people, becoming a Progressive leader in the process.
Where does progressive take root?
California, Oregon, Wisconsin
Muller vs. Oregon?
Attempt to protect women workers but results in women not being seen as equal so paid less
Lochner vs NY
Invalidates NY city law establishing a ten hour day for bakers
When was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and what happen after?
1911, leads to Protective Legislative
Square Deal?
Theodore Roosevelt’s platform
Intention: was to level the playing field
Square Deal consisted of the 3 ?
3 C’s
Control Corporation
Consumer Protection
Conversation of Natural Resources
Anthracite Coal Miners Strike?
Strike breaks out in 1902 in Pennsylvania T.R calls both sides to White House and sides with labor. TR threatens to take over mines with federal troops if a deal is not work out:
Results 10% raise and 9 hour workday
Who is know as a the TRUSTBUSTER ?
Theodore Roosevelt in reality Trust regulator: philosophy good/bad trusts
What is the Department of Commerce and Labor?
In 1903, the Department of Commerce and Labor was formed which probe businesses engaged in interstate commerce; it was highly useful in “trust-busting.”
Biggest example of trust busted by T.R?
In 1902 Northern Securities Trust by JP Morgan and James Hill
