The Progressive EraChapter 22

Section 1

• The spoils system and the lack of regulation of big business were concerns that shaped the Gilded Age.

• Ending the Spoils System• •

Section 1

• The Interstate Commerce Act forbade certain practices, such as rebates and pools

• The Sherman Antitrust Act forbade trusts and other businesses from limiting competition.

Section 2

• Political bosses corrupted city government by taking payoffs from businesses and stealing from public funds, and using their power to influence office holders.

Section 2

• Muckrakers used their journalistic skills to expose social ills; by doing so, they shocked middle-class Americans, who demanded change.

Section 2

• Progressive Reformers Goals• Limit the power of big business• End political corruption• Solve social ills• Give voters more power

Section 3

• Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal• Did away with some bad trusts• Supported laws strengthening inspection

procedures for food.• Put limits on lumbering

Section 3

• Reformers opposed Taft because he raised tariffs and was accused of blocking conservation efforts.

• Taft lost the support of the Progressives. They and Roosevelt split off from Taft and the mainstream Republican Party.

Section 3

• President Woodrow Wilson’s Accomplishments • Set up the FTC• Lowered tariffs• Regulated banking• Encouraged competition

Section 4

• Women first organized a movement as early as 1848

• They formed a group to amend the Constitution.

• They picketed the White House.• As a result, Congress passed the 19th

amendment.

Section 4

• Women managed to obtain higher education and earn degrees, but it was a struggle to be able to practice law or medicine.

Section 4

• Women saw how alcohol created hardships in the home and destroyed families.

• They also opposed saloons, which they were usually banned from.

Section 5

• African American Struggles • Segregation• Discrimination in housing and jobs• Lynchings• Unequal wages

Section 5

• Mexican Americans protected their welfare in the United States by forming mutual aid societies.

Section 5

• Problems for Asian Americans• Chinese Exclusion Act• Poor pay• Poor working conditions• Racial prejudice