The Progressive Era

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Muckrakers

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Writers who exposed unethical tactics in both government and business during the progressive era
Newspaper editors realized these stories increased circulation

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Social Gospel movement

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Originated in the Protestant church
Aimed to help the urban poor
Influenced progressives
Ex. Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives

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17th Amendment

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Allowed voters of state legislatures to elect US senators

Championed by progressives

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Initiative process

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Supported by progressives

Allowed any citizen to propose a law, which could appear on the next ballot if it received enough signatures

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Referendum process

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Allowed CITIZENS (rather than legislature) to vote on proposed laws

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Recall process

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Allowed voters to remove an elected faucial from office before his term expired

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Direct primary

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Allowed part members to vote for prospective candidates

Previously they had been chosen by party bosses

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Hull House

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Settlement house in Chicago
Est. by Jane Addams
Became a model for settlement houses around the nation
Showed crucial role of women in the progressive era
Offered social, educational, and health aid

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National American Woman Suffrage Assoc.

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Est. in 1890

Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

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Triangle Shirtwaist fire

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In NYC
Killed 150 fee mail factory workers because thy were looked in
*initiated the beginning of factory reforms

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The Jungle

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By Upton Sinclair
Revealed horrors of meat packaging co.s
Inspired the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act

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Goals of progressives

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(Mostly made up of middle class)
1. Improve life of lower class (with reforms dictated by the lower class)
2. Est. reforms (that opposed socialism)
Not universally popular because they called for increased government control
Knocked out political machines
Wanted lower tariffs
FELL SHORT OF AIDING FARMERS AND MINORITIES

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National Consumers League

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Wanted protection for women and children at home and in the workplace
Mostly made up of women

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National Woman’s Party

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Radical
Est. by Alice Paul
Pushed for suffrage

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Muller vs. OR

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Limited the hours women could work

Based on ideal of the women’s sphere and necessity for women to spend time accomplishing their roles as mothers at home

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Square Deal

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Est. by Teddy after his rise to presidency after Mckinley’s assassination
Emphasized how government intervention could help the plight of ordinary Americans
Used to break the United Mine Workers strike (on behalf of the workers)

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Finally enforced by Teddy because it seemed like Wall St. controlled the entire economy
Targeted trusts and holding co.s
DISCLAIMER: Teddy ONLY opposed trusts that HURT the economy, not all trusts (ex. He liked the Standard Oil Co.)
Continued by Wilson with the Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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United States Forest Service Act

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Est. by Teddy

His greatest accomplishment was environment conservation

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16th Amendment

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Authorized the collection of federal income tax which were previously collected from tariffs
Ex. Of Sq. Deal leveling the playing field

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New Nationalism

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Teddy’s campaign for a 3rd term vs. Taft
Called for expanded role of the government
Called for mostly workplace reforms
Under Bull Moose progressive party
Lost to Woodrow Wilson and New Freedom

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New Freedom

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Platform for democrat, Woodrow Wilson 
Did NOT want to simply regulate monopolies he wanted to try to break them up 
Pleased reformers (ex. Underwood Tariff cut high tariff on imported goods)

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Birth of a Nation

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Film by D. W. Griffith
Glorified the KKK
Supported by Woodrow Wilson

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Eugene Debs

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Ran for presidency in 1912 under the Socialist Party
Did fairly well
Socialism did not coincide with progressivism except in the fact that both believed capitalism created massive inequality in the US