564-571- Describe examples of how politics and government were reformed during the Progressive Era.

- Analyze primary sources about Woman Suffrage.

You’re the pilot of an airplane flying from New York City to Los Angeles. The plane leaves New York City at 6:10 am (EST) with 82 passengers and a flight crew of 7 aboard. After circling the airport of some time, the plane lands in Chicago at 7:58 am (CST). Three passengers get off, and five more board the plane. Following a delay of 40 minutes, the plane takes off again. Fifty minutes after take-off, one of the passengers suffers what seems to be a heart attack. Another passenger (who is a doctor) declares it to be a medical emergency. The plane lands at Spirit of St. Louis airport, where the stricken passenger is taken to a hospital (along with the doctor). The delay in St. Louis takes an hour, then the plane takes off again, and in two hour and forty-seven minutes the plane is at the gate in the Los Angeles airport.

Directions: Brainstorm details of your assigned section into a branching

diagram to present to the class. Each group member needs to write down your group’s diagram in your notebook and participate in your group’s presentation.

You will have 5 minutes to organize and discuss your information in your group and then you will present it to the class.

Group Topics:

1. Reforming Politics and Government & Woman Suffrage. (p564)

2. Electoral Reform & Municipal Reform. (p564)

3. Progressive State Reform & T.R. & Progressive Presidency.(p566)

4. T.R. and the Modern Presidency & Roosevelt and Labor. (p567)

5. Managing Natural Resources. (p568)

6. Corporate Regulation. (p568) *Stop at “Taft” on page 571.

Reforming Politics and Government Woman Suffrage

• Carrie Chapman Catt• By 1917 the National

American Woman

Suffrage Association

had 2 million members.• Argument changed to

the idea that women

could bring moral and

maternal instincts into

politics.• 19th Amendment (1920) granted the vote to women (see

poster and editorial cartoon on pages 2-3 of handout).

19th Amendment

(1920) granted the vote to women

(see poster and editorial cartoon on pages 2-3 of handout).

Reforming Politics and Government Electoral Reforms

• Australian ballot• Direct Primary• Emergence of organized lobbies.• Tried to “purify” politics by

pushing for literacy tests and

poll taxes = disfranchisement! Local Municipal Reforms

• Tried to break the alliance city bosses and business leaders. Toledo Mayor Sam “Golden Rule’ Jones. City Commission style of local government. City Manager style

Reforming Politics and Government Progressive State Government

• Initiative• Referendum• 17th Amendment – Direct election of Senators• Recall• Governor Robert “Fighting Bob” LaFollette of Wisconsin

instituted many of these reforms Direct primaries Railroad regulation 1st state income tax Workers compensation laws Created the Legislative Reference

Bureau of “experts” to advise him.

Reforming Politics and Government Progressivism at the Federal Level

• Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency (Square Deal). T.R. viewed executive office very

powerful, it could do anything

the Constitution didn’t prohibit. He reorganized the Executive

Branch using professionals (experts)

to head up commissions, bureaus. Used the mass media to achieve

celebrity like status as “Teddy” or

“TR” as he became known.

Reforming Politics and Government Progressivism at the Federal Level

• Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency (Square Deal). Showed his vigorous new approach

to handling labor in the Anthracite

Coal Strike (1902).• United Mine Workers leader

John Mitchell demanded higher

wages, 8-hour day and union

recognition.• Used “arbitration” to settle the

strike.

Reforming Politics and Government Progressivism at the Federal Level

• TR and Natural Resources TR used existing conservation laws

such as the Forest Reserve Act (1891)

and Forest Management Act (1897)

to place more lands in reserves. Appointed Gifford Pinchot as

head of Division of Forestry.• Increased forest reserves 3-fold• Set aside 80 million acres of oil and

mineral resources TR signed the National Reclamation

Act (1902).

Reforming Politics and Government Progressivism at the Federal Level

• TR and Corporate Regulation “Trust-Buster” by attacking the Northern Securities

Company and J.P. Morgan. Supreme Court ordered this trust to be dissolved! TR did though distinguish between “good” and “bad”

trusts. Expanded the federal government’s “police power”.

• Hepburn Act (1906)• Pure Food and Drug Act• Meat Inspection Act

Theodore Roosevelt.