Progressive Movement

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Progressive movement

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1890s to 1920s
Period in the US were Social activism and reform flourished. Their main goal was to get rid of corruption in government. They supported the temperance movement, womens suffrage

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John Dewey

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October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952 considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality.Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion,

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Scientific management

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1880s thru 1920s
obj: improve economic efficiency, especially labor productivity
one of the earliest attempts to apply science to processes and to management.
Frederick Winslow Taylor

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Ida Tarbell

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November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era
Known for The History of Standard Oil Company

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Seventeenth Amendment

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established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote
Senators used to be elected by state legislatures
this change perfectly reflected the spirit of progressive-era political reformers who wanted to do all they could to put political power in the hands of the citizenry

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Theodore Roosevelt

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26th President of the US
Leader in the Progressive Movement
Conservationist
Trust busting

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Trust Busting

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government began breaking trusts

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Elkins Act

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1903 mended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.[1] The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. The railroad companies were not permitted to offer rebates. Railroad corporations, their officers and employees were all made liable for discriminatory practices

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Hepburn Act

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1906 gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates. Part of Roosevelt's major goals: railroad regulation.

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The Jungle

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1906 Upton Sinclair
Purpose:o point out the troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century.

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Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

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June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines
result of Upton Sinclair, Muckrakers, Theodore Roosevelt

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Meat Inspection Act

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1906
requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption
Result of Sinclair's the Jungle

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Sixteenth Amendment

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1913
Amendment that instituted a federal income tax. In debate over this measure in Congress, most felt that this would be a fairer tax than a national sales tax, which was proposed by some

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Eugene v. Debs
November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926

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American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. One of the best known American Socialists

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Federal Reserve Act (1914)

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created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue legal tender
Under Woodrow Wilson

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Clayton Anti Trust

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1914
supplement to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and legalized labor unions

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Federal Trade Commission (1914)

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started the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the President of the United States for seven year terms. This commission was authorized to issue Cease and Desist orders to large corporations to curb unfair trade practices. This Act also gave more flexibility to the US Congress for judicial matters.

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Niagara Movement

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1905
black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois.e Niagara Movement was a call for opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement

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Booker T. Washington

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April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915
. After 1909, Washington was criticized by the leaders of the new NAACP, especially W. E. B. Du Bois, who demanded a stronger tone of protest for advancement of civil rights needs. Washington replied that confrontation would lead to disaster for the outnumbered blacks, and that cooperation with supportive whites was the only way to overcome pervasive racism in the long run
wrote Up From Slavery

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W. E. B. Dubois

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February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963
head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
opposed Booker T. Washington
campaigning instead for increased political representation for blacks in order to guarantee civil rights, and the formation of a Black elite who would work for the progress of the African-American race

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NAACP

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1909
sought to make whites aware of the need for racial equality
The organization launched a program of speechmaking, lobbying, and publicizing the issue of racial discrimination and inequality in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation. It also launched the Crisis, a magazine edited for 25 years by the black intellectual and leader, W.E.B. DuBois.

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Alice Paul

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January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977
she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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(January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women.

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19th amendment

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1920
prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex

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League of Women Voters

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American political organization founded in 1920[1] by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote