Progressive Era

Reforms

Child Labor

National Child Labor Association

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

Lewis Hine

Photographer

Keating-Owen Act

No shipment of kid made goods

Fair Labor Standards Act

US Children's Bureau

Pres. Taft

Worked with NCLC

Work Hours

Unions

Conditions

Crowded and dirty work conditions

Lack of safety codes

Long hours

Woodrow Wilson

New Freedom

Limited Government

Greater Economic Opportunity

The Federal Reserve Act

Federal Reserve System

providing oversight to banks

making loans

managing the country's money supply

serving as a lender of last resort.

National Park Service

Organic Act

Conserve Scenery

Conserve Natural and historic Objects

Conserve Wildlife

Teddy Roosevelt

Square Deal

Conservation of Natural Resources

Corporate Law

Consumer Protection

Trust Busting

Break up monopolies

Established a framework for regulation

Pure Food and Drug act

Prohibited Sale

Misbranded

Adulterated

Consumer protection agency

Meat Inspection Act

Prevent Sale

Adulterated

Misbranded

Upton Sinclair

Ensure that meat processing is sanitary

Support for conservation

"Conservation President"

National parks

National forests

Wildlife refugees

Social Darwinism

"survival of the fittest"

Herbert Spencer

used to justify rich people

Social Gospel

the application of Christian principles to social problems

Labour reforms

Abolition of child labour

Shorter workweek

Factory regulation

Washington Gladden

Conflict

Farmers

Overcharged for storage

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

Debt Cycles

Railroads

Price gouged farmers

Populism

strives to appeal to ordinary people

Andrew Jackson

Union tactics

Striking

Picketing

Boycotting

People

Eugene Debs

one of the founding members of the IWW

Samuel Gompers

founded the American Federation of Labor

Prison Labor

Coal Creek Labor Saga

a group of miners seized the Knoxville Iron Company stockade

Terrible Work Conditions

Responses of management and government

Managment

resisted government intervention,

Government

gradually regulated business

Initiative

citizens bypass state legislature

Referendum

voters approve or deny existing laws

Recall

remove an elected official from office

Primary System

vote directly for a candidate

17th

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

April 8, 1913

18th

Made Alcohol Illegal

January 16, 1919

19th

Gave Women the right to Vote

June 4, 1919

Suffrage

the right to vote

People

Carrie Chapman Catt

campaigned for the 19th amendment

president of NAWSA

Anne Dallas Dudley

national and state leader of the movement

worked to secure the ratification of the 19th

Alice Paul

one of the foremost leaders and strategists

Quaker and Women's rights Activist

"the perfect 36"

36th state to ratify the amendment

June 4, 1919

Temperance

abstinence from alcoholic drink

WCTU

1874

Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Founded the Progressive Party

Lawyer

Upton Sinclair

Author

"The Jungle"

Exposed the meat packing industry

Lincoln Steffens

Journalist

The Shame of Cities

Exposed Corrupt Political Machines

Ida Tarbell

Journalist

"The History of the Standard Oil Company"

Exposed the corrupted oil industry

WEB DuBois

NAACP

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

Booker T. Washington

Tuskegee Institute

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

Impact

Workers

Gouging prices

Bad working conditions

Businesses

large companies consolidated power

large companies controlled markets

large companies eliminated competition

Government Response

Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace

Senator John Sherman

Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.

defines unethical business practices

price fixing

monopolies

upholds various rights of labor