1. State Standards 7.3, 7.6, and 7.9

2. Progressivism
 Progressivism
 A reform movement
focused on improving
living
conditions, education,
working
conditions, stopping
political corruption, and
gain women the right to
vote
 Populist Party

3. Progressivism.
 Three Progressive Presidents
1. Teddy Roosevelt
2. William Howard Taft
3. Woodrow Wilson

4. Economic Reforms
 Theodore Roosevelt
 Hates big business and
its impact on the
government
 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
 Take legal action against
the country’s largest
corporations
 “The trustbuster”
 Conservation of natural
resources
 Protection of wildlife

5. Economic Reforms.
 William Howard Taft
 Sixteenth Amendment
 Allowed Congress to levy
income taxes

6. Economic Reforms..
 Woodrow Wilson
 Focused on labor and
business
 “New Freedom”
 Tariff reform and rules for
banks
 Federal Reserve Act
 Set up the Federal Reserve
Banking System
 Regulates the nations
money supply

7. Economic Reforms…
 Woodrow Wilson
 Clayton Antitrust Act
 Used to break fight against
big business
 Keating-Owen Child
Labor Act
 Forbade the sale of
products made by children
across state lines

8. Muckrakers
 Muckrakers
 Writers who attempted
to expose abuses in
business and corruption
in politics by using their
writing
 Very important to the
Progressive Movement
 Their work helped
educate the public
about changes needed

9. Muckrakers.
 Ida Tarbell
 History of the Standard
Oil Company
 Brought the company’s
monopoly to light and
eventually led to a
government antitrust suit
against the company

10. Muckrakers..
 Upton Sinclair
 The Jungle
 Told of unsafe and
unsanitary conditions in
meat processing plants
 Causes public uproar
 Pure Food and Drug Act of
1906
 Mandated safe and sanitary
conditions for food
preparation and packing
 Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
 Put regulations on food
and medicines

12. Political Reform
 “Wisconsin Idea”
 Proposed to use University
professors to study problems
and recommend solutions
 Leads to the 17th Amendment
 Allowed for the direct
election by the people of
senators on a national level
 Oregon System
 Leads to the direct election
of senators and a process
with which to recall them

13. Women’s Suffrage (Giving women the right to vote)
 Seneca Falls Convention
 Declaration of Sentiments
 Drew upon the Declaration
of Independence to
articulate women’s rights
 National Suffrage Leagues
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 Susan B. Anthony
 Lucy Stone
 Worked through suffrage
leagues to securing the
right to vote for women

14. Women’s Suffrage.
 Alice Paul
 Mass Marches
 Hunger Strikes
 Used to demonstrate
against a government
that did not allow half
of its population to vote

15. Women’s Suffrage..
 Tennessee
 “The Perfect 36”
 Nineteenth Amendment
 35 states had ratified this
amendment to give women
the right to vote
 Tennessee was not one of
them
 If Tennessee ratified the
amendment it would
become the perfect 36th state
 Governor Albert H. Roberts
 Holds an assembly to vote
on the amendment

16. Women’s Suffrage...
 Tennessee
 Tennessee was the
deciding state for
Women’s Suffrage
 If Tennessee ratified the
amendment then it would
become law
 Harry Burn
 Legislator who vote to pass
the amendment because his
mom told him to
 Results in Tennessee giving
women the right to vote

17. Women’s Suffrage….
 Female Leaders in
Progressive Era
 Women’s Trade Union
League
 Lobbied for the 18th
amendment
 Prohibition- stop the sale
of alcohol

18. Settlement Houses
 Hull House
 Jane Addams
 Formed to help
immigrants and the
poor “settle into”
American culture
 Henry Street Settlement
 Lillian Wald
 New York’s lower east side
 Taught immigrant women
about health and hygiene

19. The Great Migration
 Population Shift
 Employment
opportunities were
opened in the North
 African Americans leave
the south for the North
 Nearly half a million
African Americans
migrated north between
1916 and 1919

20. Urban areas during this time period
New York
Chicago
Boston
North East!

21. African American Cultural Figures
 W.E.B. Du Bois
 Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
 Black Nationalist Policy
 Believed African Americans should stay independent of white
Americans
 Booker T. Washington
 Assimilation of blacks into white culture
 Believed African Americans should be worked into white American
culture
 “Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are Speech”
 Marcus Garvey
 Segregationist policies and revolutionary tactics