Progressive Era
Takes Place between 1890 to World war I
The goal was to remedy the political and economic injustices that had resulted from America's rapid industrialization
Influenced by the Social Gospel Movement which provided settlement houses
Rejected socialism, anarchism, and communism but some moderate reforms were necessary
Different Progressive Reforms (Social)
Settlement Houses
Jane Adams
Muckrakers
Upton Sinclair the Jungle
Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives
National Woman Suffrage Association
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Anti-Defamation League
Laws regulating roads and public utilities, and fire safety codes
Different Progressive Reforms (Political)
Secret Ballots
Direct Primary
Direct Election of Senators
17th Amendment
Different Progressive Reforms (Economic)
Temperance Movement
Laws regulating urban housing
Laws eliminating child labor
Laws limiting the hours women can work
Laws forcing to compensate injured workers
Different Progressive Reforms (Environmental)
Sherman Jennings Governor of Florida 1901 - 1905 reclaimed land from the railroad barons
May Mann Jennings advocated better treatment of the Seminole Indians and nature conservation efforts helped create the Everglades National Park in 1947
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Governor of Florida 1905 - 1909 advocated conservation of forests, fish, and game
Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal
Things are going to be fair for everyone (protect consumers and environment, control corporations)
Trust Buster
Broke up businesses that didn't care about public interest
Meat Inspection and Food & Drug Act
The government had to inspect meat shipped between states
Prohibited the use of poisons as preservatives for meat and foods
Medicine containers were required to have labels with their content
Environmental Protection
William Taft
Trust Buster
Proposed 16th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
Lower Tariff
Graduated Income Tax
Taxes were based on the states' population
Federal Reserve Act
It created the federal reserve system and the US sets the monetary prices. It sets the monetary policy for the US, bank so they don't do whatever they want
Clayton Antitrust Act Labor Law
Prohibited unfair business practices