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Gilded Age – Progressive Era
Gilded Age • Gilded – cheap center covered w/ thin layer of gold (Mark Twain) • Gov’t followed Laissez – Faire policies • 1877 -1900
Political Party Differences Republican • Gold based $ • High Tariffs • $ for Union soldiers • Aid to RR • Limits on Immigrants • Enforce Blue Laws Democrat • Silver based $ • Lower Tariffs • High farm prices • Less aid to RR • Fewer Blue Laws
Presidents of the Gilded Age Rutherford Hayes • Republican • Ended Reconstruction • Reformed Spoils System
Presidents of the Gilded Age James A Garfield • Republican • Killed by a lawyer, Charles Guiteau
Presidents of the Gilded Age Chester Arthur • Republican • Created Civil Service Commission • Check qualifications
Presidents of the Gilded Age Grover Cleveland • Democrat • Gov’t control over RR
Presidents of the Gilded Age Benjamin Harrison • Republican • Sherman Anti Trust Act • Country begins a Depression
Presidents of the Gilded Age Grover Cleveland • Democrat • Stops Pullman Strike • Only Prez elected twice not in a row!
Presidents of the Gilded Age William Mc. Kinley • Republican • Increases US Tariffs • Supported the Gold Standard
Presidents of the Gilded Age William Mc. Kinley • Spanish – American War • Annexation of Hawaii • Killed during 2 nd term – Leon Czolgosz
Progressive Era • 1890 -1920 • A variety of reforms were enacted at all levels • Many Progressives believed that political action and reform were required for progress in society.
The Progressives: Their Goals and Beliefs Progressives were not a single unified movement. Their efforts fell into four categories: Social Reform Moral Economic Reform Political Reform
Social Reform Government should be given expanded powers so that it could become more active in improving the lives of its citizens.
Social Reform Examples 1. Women’s rights –Suffrage (voting) –Owning Property –Divorce –Clothing –Birth Control
Women’s Reform Leaders • Susan B Anthony – activist who worked towards gaining suffrage for women – Created National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Women’s Reform Leaders • Florence Kelley – activist who worked towards gaining better working conditions
Women’s Reform Leaders • Alice Paul – radical activist who worked towards gaining suffrage for women – Created Congressional Union (CU): wanted an Amendment giving Women right to vote
Social Reform Examples 2. Protection of the Environment – Antiquities Act of 1906 » Allows President to designate National Monuments » Protect and Preserve Wildlife Areas
Social Reform Examples 3. Tenement Life Over Crowding of the Cities Poor Living Conditions Unsanitary Conditions
Social Reform Examples 4. Unsafe working conditions and Child Labor – Fewer Hours – Higher Wages – Safer Factories – Unions
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory operated on the top 3 floors of the 10 story Asch Building in New York City
• In 1911, Unsafe working conditions lead to a deadly fire • Notice that the tallest ladders owned by the fire department only reach the 6 th floor
• Rather than burn alive in the swift moving fire, many women jump from windows
• This is actually a photo of the building after the fire! Note how there is very little damage on the outside of the building
• Eight months after the fire, a jury acquitted the factory owners, of any wrong doing. • Twenty-three individual civil suits were brought against the owners of the Asch building. On March 11, 1913, three years after the fire, the owners settled. They paid 75 dollars per life lost. • This tragedy led to a push for comprehensive safety and workers compensation laws.
Social Reform Examples 5. Safer Medicines – Restriction of Harmful Drugs – Proper Labeling – Government Approval of Future Drugs/Medicines
Patent Medicines • Medicines at the turn of the century did not require a prescription. • Making exaggerated claims, they were used for a variety of ailments. • Many contained dangerous ingredients.
Cocaine was a common ingredient – even for children's medicines
Notice it's from the makers of Bayer Aspirin. . .
Social Reform Examples 6. Safer Food – Government Inspection of Food – Proper Labeling – Cleanliness Have you read “The Jungle”? yuck.
The Jungle • Written by Upton Sinclair • Talks about the horrors of the meat packing industry
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 Created Food and Drug Administration, responsibility of testing all foods and drugs destined for human consumption The requirement for prescriptions from licensed physicians before a patient could purchase certain drugs The requirement of label warnings on habit-forming drugs.
Meat Inspection Act of 1906 All animals were required to pass an inspection by the FDA prior to slaughter All carcasses were subject to a postmortem inspection Cleanliness standards were established for slaughterhouses and processing plants.
Social Reform Examples 7. Civil Rights Movement African Americans were still fighting for basic rights guaranteed them in the Constitution
Problems African Americans fought Against • Voter Restrictions – Poll Tax – Pay a fee to vote – Literacy Test – prove you could read & write to vote – Grandfather Clause – exempts a group of people from obeying a law provided they met certain conditions before law was passed
Problems African Americans fought Against • Jim Crow Laws – System of laws that segregated public services by race
Problems African Americans fought Against • Plessy v. Ferguson – “Separate but Equal” – Supreme Court ruled against Homer Plessy saying segregation was legal as long as separate facilities were equal
Problems African Americans fought Against • Lynching – mob’s illegal seizure & execution of a person, usually by hanging
African American Leaders • Booker T. Washington – encouraged African Am. To become educated & learn a trade
African American Leaders • WEB Du. Bois – encouraged African Am. To attend college & become leaders; Also started NAACP
African American Leaders • NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – Worked through courts to gain equal rights for African Am.
Moral Reform Many felt the Morals of our society were at the root of many turn of the century problems. - Moral Reformers sought to promote Moral Improvements: • • • End Prostitution End Gambling End Drunkenness Education for Children Americanization and Restriction of Immigrants
Economic Reformers sought to curb the power and influence of wealthy interests. » Monopolies » Trusts » Gap between Rich and Poor
Political Reform • Governments should become more efficient and less corrupt so that they can competently handle an expanded role. Political Reformers demanded Political Honesty and Accountability » » » Patronage/Spoils System Only Politicians can introduce bills Only Legislatures can pass laws Only Courts can remove corrupt officials Political Machines Bribery
Patronage • The giving of jobs or other political favors to supporters – even if they are not qualified • Even Presidents did it! …until…
Progressive Political Reforms BEFORE • Party leaders chose candidates for state & local offices AFTER • Direct Primaries – Voters select their party’s candidates
Progressive Political Reforms BEFORE AFTER • State legislature • 17 th Amendment – chose US Senators are elected by popular vote
Progressive Political Reforms BEFORE • Only members of state legislature can introduce bills AFTER • Initiative – Voters can put bills before the legislation
Progressive Political Reforms BEFORE • Only legislatures pass laws AFTER • Referendum – voters can vote on bills directly • DE voters control raising school taxes
Progressive Political Reforms BEFORE • Only courts or legislature can remove corrupt officials AFTER • Recall – voters can remove elected officials from office
Progressive Political Reforms
MUCKRAKERS • Journalists that exposed turn of the century problems such as illegal business activities, putrid food, quack medicines, squalid living conditions, dangerous working conditions, etc. • The uncovering of these awful truths led progressives to demand changes.
• Ida Tarbell • Jacob Riis • • History of Lincoln • How the Standard Oil Steffens • Upton Sinclair Other Half • Shame of Lives SOME FAMOUS MUCKRAKERS • Exposed the • the Exposed Citiesthe • The Jungle ruthless practices shameful livingof big business • • Exposed the horrors conditions in Exposed Big City of the meatpacking city tenements Political industry Corruption
Progressive Presidents Theodore Roosevelt • Republican • Youngest Prez • Took office after Mc. Kinley is shot
Progressive Presidents • Led the fight to dissolve 40 monopolies as a “trust buster“ • “Square Deal" promised a fair shake for the average citizen, including: – regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs. – promotion of the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources.
Progressive Presidents William H Taft • Republican • Promised to continue TR’s ideas • Tried but lacked TR’s energy
Progressive Presidents • Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to set railroad rates. • Initiated 80 antitrust suits • Submitted to the states amendments for a Federal income tax and the direct election of Senators.
Progressive Presidents • • Ballinger-Pinchot Affair Gifford Pinchot – Head of Forest Service Richard Ballinger – Sec. of Interior Pinchot accused Ballinger of taking bribes for mining rights in Alaska • Taft fired Pinchot!
Progressive Presidents • Progressive Republicans are upset w/ Taft & want TR back • TR loses in the primaries so he creates his own political party • Progressive Party aka Bull Moose Party
Election of 1912 • Rep – William Taft • Dem – Woodrow Wilson • Prog – Teddy Roosevelt
Wilson Wins!!!! Candidate Popular Vote Electoral Vote Wilson 6, 296, 547 435 Roosevelt 4, 118, 571 88 Taft 3, 486, 720 8 Other 1, 135, 637 None
Progressive Presidents Woodrow Wilson • Democrat • Continued Progressivism • Prez during WWI
Progressive Presidents • Anti-trust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices. • Laws prohibiting child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day. • Lowered Tariffs
Progressive Presidents Clayton Antitrust Act • Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 • Spelled out specific activities businesses could NOT do • Aide to Union Strikes now Legal!
Progressive Presidents Federal Reserve System • Central bank of the US • Divided nation into 12 regions each w/ its own Federal Reserve Bank • Banks now under the rules of “the Fed”
Progressive Presidents Federal Reserve System • Regulates Amount of money in circulation • Sets interest rates • Regulates how much a bank can lend
Progressive Presidents • Louis Brandeis – 1 st Jewish Supreme Court Justice • Dept. of Labor • Women’s Bureau
Progressive Presidents • 16 th Amendment – Congress can levy income taxes • 17 th Amendment – Direct Election of Senators • 18 th Amendment – Prohibition of Alcohol • 19 th Amendment – Women’s Suffrage
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