Progressive Era 1898-1920 http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/dwd/DWDHistory/images/child_labor_b estabrook.ci.lexington.ma.us/library/Jan/SusanBAnthony.jpg Power Point created by Robert Martinez Primary Content Source:Mastering the Grade 11TaksSocial Studies Assessment
28
Embed
Progressive Era 1898-1920 //estabrook.ci.lexington.ma.us/library/Jan/SusanBAnthony.jpg.
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
• Progressives were mainly middle-class dwellers, who believed government should increase its responsibility of human welfare
by protecting workers and consumers.
• The rise of industry brought many new problems – brutal working conditions, child labor, political corruption, urban overcrowding, and the abuse of consumers by big business.
• Trust busting is the act of breaking up the illegal trusts and monopolies that flourished during the Gilded Age. The most famous “trustbuster” was Teddy Roosevelt.
Roosevelt as Trustbuster
• Roosevelt revived the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up big business trusts. TR Filed lawsuit to break up Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.
• Both Republicans and Democrats would carry out Progressive reforms: Sixteenth Amendment – Congress can collect income taxes: Seventeenth Amendment – direct election of U.S. senators.
• When men went off to fight in WWI, millions of women took their places in factories and workshops. Women’s contribution to the war was the final argument in favor of women’s suffrage.
• Progressives placed greater power in the hands of the people. The 17th Amendment introduced the direct election of Senators. Primary elections gave citizens greater influence in the selection of candidates.
http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/superman.jpg
• The 16th Amendment introduced the graduated income tax, changing the whole
way the federal government financed its operations, and became a means of
correcting social inequalities through a limited redistribution of wealth.