Progressive Era

1890 - 1920

Roots of Progressivism

PopulistsSocial Gospel

Settlement HousesHull House in Chicago

Muckrakers

Jacob Riis-How the Other Half Lives

Lincoln Steffens-Shame of the Cities

The Jungle

Political Progressivism

• Direct Primary• Initiative• Referendum• Recall• Australian Ballot• Direct Election of

Senators – 17th Amend.• Women Suffrage – 19th

Amend.• City Manager System

Progressive Reform at the state and local level

Robert LaFollette – Wisconsin Governor “laboratory o f democracy”

• Initiative, • referendum, • recall• City Manager system

Social Progressivism

• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire• Safety and Sanitation

Codes• Muller vs. Oregon• Jane Addams – Hull

House• Women Christian

Temperance Union -18th Amendment

Teddy Roosevelt and the Square Deal

Pennsylvania Coal Mine Strike 1902

Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal

• Corporations – Northern Securities Company• Consumers – Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat

Inspection Act• Conservation – Yosemite National Forest

1912 Presidential Election

• Democrat – Woodrow Wilson• Republican – William H. Taft• Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party) –

Theodore Roosevelt• Socialist Party – Eugene V. Debs

Wilsonian Progressivism

• Underwood Tariff 1913 – Tariff reduction• Federal Reserve Act 1913 – Banking reform• 16th Amendment 1913 – Income Tax• 17th Amendment 1913 – Direct election of senators

• Federal Trade Commission Act 1914• Clayton Anti- Trust Act 1914• LaFollette Seamen’s Act 1915• Federal Farm Loan Act 1915• Workingmen’s Compensation Act 1916• 18th Amendment - Prohibition• 19th Amendment – Women’s suffrage

Court Cases

• Muller vs. Oregon – Louis Brandeis Supreme Court upheld limit on women’s work hours in factories

• Lochner vs. New York

Supreme Court overturned New York’s law establishing a 10 hour workday for bakers