The Era of Progressivism 18731920. MAIN THEMES 1.That all progressives shared an optimistic vision that an active government could solve socioeconomic.

The Era of Progressivism

1873 1920

MAIN THEMES

1. That all progressives shared an optimistic vision that an active government could solve socioeconomic problems and create a better, more ordered and efficient world.

2. That progressives wanted to reduce the influence of party machines on politics.

3. How the temperance, immigration restriction, and woman suffrage movements took on crusade-like aspects.

4. How progressivism was a reaction to the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the United States in the late nineteenth century.

5. The importance of political leadership for the progressive movement.

6. That American foreign policy became much more interventionist, especially in the Caribbean.

Muckrackers

Goo

Goos

Temperance

Suffragettes

Populists

Midclass

Women

Labor

Unions

Civil

Rights

The Rise of Progressivism

• The Progressive Impulse– The Muckrakers and the Social Gospel

• Charles Francis Adams• Lincoln Steffens• Ida Tarbell

– The Allure of Expertise• Scientific Analysis Management• “Taylorism”• Thorstein Veblen


• The Progressive Impulse– The Professions

• 1895 National Association of Manufactures• 1901 -American Medical Association – 1901• 1916 – 48 States with Bar Associations

• Other– Military Eduction– Education

» American Association of University Professors


• The Assault on the Parties– Early Attacks

• Split Tickets

• Election reform

– Statehouse Progressivism• Initiatives & Referendums

• Robert LaFollette

Voter Participation

• Other Sources of Progressive Reform

– Labor, the Machine, and Reform

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911


• Sources of Progressive Reform– African Americans and Reform

• 1905 – Niagara Movement (WEB Du Dois)

• 1909 - NAACP


• Crusades for Order and Reform– The Temperance Crusade

Frances Willard 1839-1898

Carry A. Nation 1846-1911

Fanny Wright 1795-1852

Margaret Sanger 1879-1966

Victoria Woodhull 1838-1927

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Crusades for Order and Reform– Immigration Restriction


• Crusades for Order and Reform– The Dream of Socialism

• Socialist Party strength

• “Wobblies”

• William Haywood

• Crusades for Order and Reform– Decentralization and Regulation

• Louis D. Brandeis

• Good Vs. Bad trusts

• Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency– The Square Deal

• Interstate Commerce Acts

• Pure Food and Drug Acts

• Labor legislation

• The Troubled Succession– Spreading Insurgency

• Progressive dominance

• Anti-Trust legislation

• La Follette’s downfall

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom

• Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom• Income Tax – XVI Ammendment

• Continued Segregation

• Keating-Owen Act


• Debating the Past: PROGRESSIVISM

The Era of Progressivism 18731920. MAIN THEMES 1.That all progressives shared an optimistic vision that an active government could solve socioeconomic.

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