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The Progressives Age
1900-1917
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Reformers wanted to:
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Regulate big business
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More Americans wanted to control their
Candidates
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It was done by three successful men:
Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
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At the turn of the century the United States:
45 States
76 million people
Wealth-Prosperity
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76,000,000 Americans in 46 states (by the end of
the decade.)
Policeman arrests woman for smoking in public
$46,000,000+ in the U.S. treasury
8,000 cars - 10 miles of paved roads
1900 - Auto deaths 96; lynchings 115
San Francisco Earthquake took 700 lives and cost
over $4,000,000 in damage.
Average worker made $12.98/week for 59 hours
Life expectancy: 47.3 female, 46.3 male - 33.0
blacks
Essay - Birth of the 20th Century
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First Football Team 1899 Sewanne Tigers
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1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings
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Wilson throwing out the first ball,
opening day, 1916
Ping pong - invented in Britain in the 1890s it was an
inexpensive mimic for lawn tennis, played by the rich
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 Placed
their faith in progress,
technology, & science
 Rejected Laissez-faire
 Protestant moral values
 A new view of the purpose of
government
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Muckrakers- Writers
of the Progressive
Era, Investigative
Journalism T
Roosevelt
nicknamed them.
McClure’s
Cosmopolitan
Collier’s
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Sensational to report
a story.
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Pulitzer continued to promote investigative
reporting and in 1909 the New York World
exposed a fraudulent payment of $40
million by the United States to the French
Panama Canal Company. The federal
government indicted Pulitzer for criminally
libeling President Theodore Roosevelt and
the banker John Pierpont Morgan. However,
Pulitzer won an important victory for the
freedom of the press when the courts
dismissed the indictments.
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Lincoln Steffens- “
Shame of the Cities
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Pure Food and
Drug Act- forces
manufactures to
produce only a
product that people
know what’s in it.
Meat Inspection
Act- allowed
government to
inspect meat.
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A political and
economic theory or
system in which the
means of
production,
distribution, and
exchange are owned
by the community
collectively, usually
through the state .
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Americans rejected socialism, because
Americans liked private ownership.
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Her crusade to
legalize birth control
spurred the
movement for
women's liberation
Planned Parenthood
Clinics.
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She established the
National American
“Women Suffrage”
Wanted an
amendment to the
US Constitution.
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Commission System- Galveston Texas 1901.
City manager plan-
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Robert La FolletteGovernor of
Wisconsin
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Initiative- allows voters to introduce laws
through petitions and to enact laws directly
by a popular vote.
Referendum- citizens may approve or reject a
proposed law or put an existing law to a vote.
Recall allowing voters to remove an official
from office.
Direct Primary- party’s candidates are chosen
by the voters instead of party membership.
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Organic Simplicity
Architect
“Prairie Style”
Structures should
blend in with
natural
surroundings.
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Teddy Roosevelt
becomes US
President after
McKinley is
assassinated.
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Youngest president
42 years old.
First president to be
known by his initials
Trust buster
Receives the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Began NCCA
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“ Speak softly but carry a big stick”
Bully was Roosevelt’s favorite word.
“Square Deal” Roosevelt’s campaign slogan.
Trustbuster- Nickname of Roosevelt.
National Reclamation Act- restoration to
productivity of dry lands through irrigation.
John Muir- Sierra Club
Conservationist- TR was one of them.
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 Allowed
interstate
Commerce Commission to
set rates for interstate
trade.
 Gave muscles to the ICC.
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United Miner Workers lead by John L Lewis
wanted”
Union recognition
Better wages
Less hours
Better working conditions
JP Morgan owned most of the Penn. coal mines.
Morgan would not meet with the strikers.
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Arbitration- where two sides agree to meet to
work out a problem. The middle person is
usually the arbitrator. The progress is in
arbitration.
President Roosevelt threaten JPMorgan that
he would take over the mines themselves. . . .
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This trust was the first to be broken by the
Sherman Anti Trust Act.
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He was named by TR to
become the next
president of the US
Federal Judge
Governor of the
Philippines
His wife is responsible
for the cherry trees in
DC
Supreme Court Chief
Justice
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16 th amendment- provides for income tax
17 th amendment- provides for direct
election of senators.
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Never got anyone elected.
Initiative, referendum, recall
Direct Primary, direct election of senators
8 hour work day
Women suffrage
End to child labor
Minimum wages
Large corporation regulated.
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William Howard
Taft- Republican
Woodrow WilsonDemocratic
T. Roosevelt- Bull
Moose Party
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College President
Governor of New
Jersey.
Federal Reserve Act
Underwood Tariff
Clayton Anti-trust
Act
Federal Trade
Commission
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act- freed unions from
anti trust actions and barred interlocking
directorates.
Underwood Tariff- tariff passed by Wilson
lowest tariff since the Civil War.
Federal Reserve Act- The most important
bill- set up the national’s bank.
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First Jewish person
to seat on the
Supreme Court
Anti-Semitic- anti
Jewish
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All ballots one color
 2. All candidates on one
ballot.
 3. Printed by government
expenses,
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 Laissez-
faire
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Taft
Wilson
Sanger
Brandeis
Pultizer
Recall
Direct Primary
TR
The Jungle”
Tarbell
La Follette
17thAmendment
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Socialism
Du Bois
Debs
Coal Strike
Pure Food & Drug
16th Amendment
Muckrakers
Election of 1912
Hearst
NCAA
Federal Reserve
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