Progressive Era

A Midsummer Night's Dream Cast

door David Butisingh

POISON

door Laura Gallego

Theories Explained HSB4U

door Brynn Bondy

All Summer in a Day

door Andrea Camargo

Trusts and Monopolies

Government Response

Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.

upholds various rights of labor

defines unethical business practices

monopolies

price fixing

Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

Senator John Sherman

prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace

Impact

Businesses

large companies eliminated competition

large companies controlled markets

large companies consolidated power

Workers

Bad working conditions

Gouging prices

Black Civil Rights

Booker T. Washington

believed that providing practical training for African Americans and helping them develop economic self-reliance

Tuskegee Institute

WEB DuBois

believed that full citizenship and equal rights for African Americans would be brought about through the efforts of an intellectual elite

NAACP

Muckrakers

Ida Tarbell

"The History of the Standard Oil Company"

Exposed the corrupted oil industry

Lincoln Steffens

The Shame of Cities

Exposed Corrupt Political Machines

Journalist

"The Jungle"

Exposed the meat packing industry

Author

Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Lawyer

Founded the Progressive Party

Women's Issues

Temperance

WCTU

1874

abstinence from alcoholic drink

Suffrage

"the perfect 36"

36th state to ratify the amendment

Alice Paul

Quaker and Women's rights Activist

one of the foremost leaders and strategists

Anne Dallas Dudley

worked to secure the ratification of the 19th

national and state leader of the movement

Carrie Chapman Catt

president of NAWSA

campaigned for the 19th amendment

the right to vote

Amendments

19th

June 4, 1919

Gave Women the right to Vote

18th

January 16, 1919

Made Alcohol Illegal

17th

April 8, 1913

Allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.

Political Stuff

Primary System

vote directly for a candidate

Recall

remove an elected official from office

Referendum

voters approve or deny existing laws

Initiative

citizens bypass state legislature

Labor Movements

Responses of management and government

Government

gradually regulated business

Managment

resisted government intervention,

Prison Labor

Terrible Work Conditions

Coal Creek Labor Saga

a group of miners seized the Knoxville Iron Company stockade

People

Samuel Gompers

founded the American Federation of Labor

Eugene Debs

one of the founding members of the IWW

Union tactics

Boycotting

Picketing

Striking

Granger Movement

Populism

Andrew Jackson

strives to appeal to ordinary people

Conflict

Railroads

Price gouged farmers

Farmers

Debt Cycles

Overcharged for storage

In 1871 farmers were able to get a bill fixing maximum rates

Societal Views

Social Gospel

Washington Gladden

the application of Christian principles to social problems

Factory regulation

Shorter workweek

Abolition of child labour

Labour reforms

Social Darwinism

used to justify rich people

Herbert Spencer

"survival of the fittest"

Presidents

Teddy Roosevelt

Support for conservation

Wildlife refugees

National forests

National parks

"Conservation President"

Meat Inspection Act

Ensure that meat processing is sanitary

Upton Sinclair

Prevent Sale

Misbranded

Adulterated

Pure Food and Drug act

Consumer protection agency

Prohibited Sale

Adulterated

Misbranded

Trust Busting

Established a framework for regulation

Break up monopolies

Square Deal

Consumer Protection

Corporate Law

Conservation of Natural Resources

Woodrow Wilson

National Park Service

Organic Act

Conserve Wildlife

Conserve Natural and historic Objects

Conserve Scenery

The Federal Reserve Act

Federal Reserve System

serving as a lender of last resort.

managing the country's money supply

making loans

providing oversight to banks

New Freedom

Greater Economic Opportunity

Limited Government

Labor

Conditions

Long hours

Lack of safety codes

Crowded and dirty work conditions

Unions

Reforms

Work Hours

Child Labor

US Children's Bureau

Worked with NCLC

Pres. Taft

Keating-Owen Act

Fair Labor Standards Act

No shipment of kid made goods

National Child Labor Association

Lewis Hine

Photographer

Ban Child Labor

In 1900, U.S Census records indicated that 1 out of every 6 children between the ages of 5 and 10 were working