Chapter 9The Progressive Era

Part 1

Pages 306-312

Terms to Know

• Progressive Movement

• Florence Kelley

• Prohibition

• Muckraker

• Scientific management

• Robert M. La Follette

Terms to know (continued)

• Initiative

• Referendum

• Recall

• Seventeenth Amendment

Progressivism

• 1898 Gold found in Alaska

• Inflation

• Crop Failures in Europe

• American Farmers sold their surplus to Europe

• =Farm prices up!

The Economy And Society

• Review before 1898

• After 1898: a new generosity of spirit

• Inspired reform

• The Black man did not benefit much

4 Goals of the Progressives

• Social Reform: Social Gospel Movement, Settlement Houses, Child Labor, Florence Kelley

• Moral Reform: Prohibition, Crime

• Economic Reform: Unions, Socialism, abuse of Big Business

• Promote Efficiency: Scientific Management (Taylorism)

Reform and Government

• 3 Levels:

• Municipal

• State

• Nationsl

Municipal

• Gas and water socialism

• Corruption (the Party Boss System (the Political Machine

• Sanitation

• Building codes, insurance laws, transportation, water, etc

State Level

• Governor La Follette Wisconsin

• Teddy Roosevelt New York

• Governor Wilson New Jersey

State Child Labor Laws

• Attempts to limit child labor or hours for women were struck down by the Court

• Keating-Owen Act

• Muller v Oregon

Electoral Reform

• Initiative: When a citizen can introduce a law to the State Legislature

• Referendum: a popular vote or to vote on an issue at a later date

• Recall: To remove someone from office before the term is completed

Amendment 17

• The most progressive of all progressive issues

• Direct election of Senators