Progressive Movement

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Progressive movement

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-social activism and reform
-1890s to the 1920s
-purification of government, as Progressives tried to expose and undercut political machines and bosses and womens rights.

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John Dewey

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-early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology.
-1859 – 1952
-advocate for voting rights and pblic opinion should be formed

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Scientific management

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-a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows
-progressive movement
-improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity

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Ida Tarbell

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-one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism
-1857 –1944
-she became the first person to take on Standard Oil

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17th amendment

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Senators Elected by Popular Vote

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Theodore Roosevelt

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-leader of the progressive movement
-1858 – 1919
- Founder of Progressive Party of 1912

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trust busting

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a term that referred to President Theodore Roosevelt's policy of prosecuting monopolies, or "trusts," that violated federal antitrust law. Roosevelt's "trust-busting" policy marked a major departure from previous administrations' policies, which had generally failed to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, and added momentum to the progressive reform movements of the early 1900s.

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Elkins Act

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-1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
-authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.

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Hepburn Act

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-1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates
-he limitation on railroad rates depreciated the value of railroad securities, a factor in causing the Panic of 1907.

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The Jungle

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-troubles of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry
-1906
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pure food and drug act (1906)

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-s 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.
-1906
-The Act arose due to public education and exposés from Muckrakers

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meat inspection act

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-inspect animals before slaughtered for meat for humans
-1906
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16th amendment

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-The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.