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Progressivism and its Decline1900-1930
Populism Does Populism represent individualism or collectivism?
Populism’s failure by 1900 is largely due to _________.
Progressive Movement
Picks up where Populism left off
“Restore the government to the people” DEMOCRACY
What else? (Progressive Party Platform) General welfare Transparency in politics Justice for all (social justice)
Including education, poverty Environmental
On your own, test your memory. Can you fill in pg 95 without looking at your notes?
Use your reading from last night to fill in pg 96 with a partner.
Reforms
Reforms were made on local, state and national levels.
Most reforms expanded the role of the the government at all levels
National Level Roosevelt Taft Wilson
Roosevelt Square Deal
Bully Pulpit
Coal Strike of 1902
Anti-trust legislation
Hepburn Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Environmentalist National Reclamation Act
Create your own…
Now, create your own ppt slide for the class for Taft or Wilson.
Use the large paper and markers to write out your slide.
Use the textbooks in the classroom to increase your knowledge.
Each slide must have and may only have 5 main points.
Taft
Payne-Aldrich Act
Trustbuster
Sold off reserved lands for business purposes
Wilson Federal Reserve System
16, 17, 18, 19th amendments
Federal Trade Commission
Clayton Anti-trust act
Worker’s Compensation Act
State Level
Florence Kelley: Illinois bans child labor in 1900 Compulsory education
Creative thinking in schools
State laws (NY) to regulate workplace safety
Compensation laws
Limits workday Lochner v. NY Muller v. Oregon
Robert La Follette: “Fighting Bob” (WI) Direct primaries
Local Level Home Rule
Settlement Houses Jane Addams: Hull House
City Government reform 5 person commission
(Galveston Plan) Purchased local utilities Curbed power of political
machines Enforced tenement codes
City Planning
Key Political Reforms
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
16th amendment
17th amendment
Secret ballots
Direct primaries
Social Gospel
Use Christianity to guide reform Charity and justice Moral reform
Private help Charities
Temperance movement 18th amendment
Anti-Prostitution Ties to Women’s Right movement and suffrage
Workers
More regulation of factories Meat Inspection Act
Union success Coal Strike of 1902
In contrast to: Great Railroad Strike Pullman Strike
Negotiation: collective bargaining
The Progressive movement made reforms on the local, state and national level from 1900-1920.
With your partner, (chosen at random) you will use the section of the textbook to write down the reforms on a large sheet of white people.
We will then tape them around the room and on the board and you will fill in your own chart in your notebook
that looks like an inverted triangle.
Successes of Progressive Movement
Look back at the Progressive Party Platform in your reader.
Did they achieve their goals?
At what cost?
What has changed for an American living in 1895 versus someone living in 1920?
The Roaring TwentiesHow any why does the US shift from the Progressive success to a more conservative time?
Decline of Progressivism
1. WWI
2. Booming economy
3. Prohibition
This decline is represented in the election of two conservative presidents.
1. WWI
Patriotism and pride
19th amendment Women respond
Focus on other issues
2. Booming Economy
Directly tied to WWI
Henry Ford Revolutionizes
production Five dollar day,
forty hour week Affordable
2. Booming Economy Consumer revolution
New and affordable goods flooded the market
Widespread electricity
New business practices: Installment buying and credit Stock Market
Improvement in Quality of Life for some
Review: Women’s Rights Movement
How does the booming economy change the US in ways that move away from Progressivism?
Does the booming economy promote collectivism or individualism? Def of Collectivism:
Strong cohesive ties the principle of centralized social and economic control,
esp. of all means of production Tie between people are involuntary. From birth to death
Who’s left out?
Farmers: “Leven-cent cotton, forty cent meat, How in the
world can a poor man eat? Mule’s in the barn, no crop’s laid by, Corncrib empty and the cow’s gone dry?”: Protest Song by bob Miller and Emma Dermer
Blacks Harlem Renaissance
3. Prohibition
Attempt to help morals of US
Does it work?
3. Prohibition
Creates underground bars
Mafia emerges fully
More crime?
Gov’t in the 20s
Harding and Coolidge---Extreme response to Progressivism
For example: Lower incomes taxes, raise tariffs, laissez-faire approach
Harding “Return to normalcy”
“I listen to one side and they seem right…I talk to the other side, and they seem just as right, and here I am where I started, what a job!”
Corruption grows Charles Forbes buys 100 years
worth of floor cleaner at 24x the price with taxpayers money
Coolidge Silent Cal
“The main who builds a factory, builds a temple”
“The chief business of the American people is business”
How do the policies of these presidents contribute to the shift away from Progressive policies?
Do these Presidents move toward collectivism or individualism?
What is a pendulum?
How might the time period of 1875-1930 be representative of a pendulum in regards to our unit of individualism and collectivism?
Progressivism Undermined
WWI
Economy
Prohibition
Presidents-Harding and Coolidge
Buck vs. Bell
Progressivism undermined
Did the Progressives create systems that could maintain the success of their goals?
Could they?
Do the liberal policies of the Progressives cause their own decline?
Clash of Cultures 19th Amendment/Women’s Rights and
Traditional domestic values Past unit
Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance and KKK and/or Nativism Arc of Justice Reading Past unit
Traditionalism and Modernism Scopes Trial WJB reading
Communism and Democracy Sacco and Vanzetti (executed) Optimism in Democracy post WWI
Quiz: (5 pts each)
How might the response to Prohibition undermine the goals of the Progressive movement?
2. What role did new technology play in shaping the economy of the 1920s? The culture of the 1920s?
3.What was the relationship between gov’t and big business in the 1920s?
4.How did the nation's lasting love affair with the automobile affect American society? The American economy?