1)Progressives waged war on evils (monopoly, corruption, inefficiency, and social justice) 2)Muckrakers were journalists who published magazines, which exposed scandals or evils such as the ones in the above bullet, ect. (kind of like tabloids) 3)Progressive reformers were mainly middle class. It was a fairly widespread idea, and branched throughout most of the governments, city to federal. 4)Called for direct election of senators (seventeenth amendment), referendum, and allowing voters to directly purpose legislation 5)Vote is being gradually given to women, but full suffrage is still sometime away. 6)Urban reformers sought to end prostitution, bribery of police by slum-lords and juvenile delinquency. 7)Robert M La Follette . well known progressive republican. Governor and senator of Wisconsin. Returned railroads and lumber to the people. 8)Sweatshops brought to public eye .ex. Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire which killed 146 women, mostly young girls. 9)Prison and school reform going on aswell. 10)Roosevelts 3 cs: control of the corporations, consumer protection and conservation of natural resources. 11)Departments of commerce and labor, bureau of coroporations developed. 12)Upton Sinclair publishes the jungle, exposes the disgusting practices within the meat packing industry. Roosevelts investigators discovered how poisoned rats, bits of rope and other debris were being canned and sold as ham. 13)Meat inspection act of 1906 and pure food and drug act of 1906 passed to prevent adulteration and mislabeling of food and drugs. 14)Due to the panic of 1807, Aldrich-vreeland act passed, gov. allowed to issue emergency currency when backed by collateral. 15)Taft elected, very passive, poor judge of public opinion. Continued busting trusts Dollar diplomacy used foreign policy to protect money invested abroad, and used it to uphold foreign policy.
You mentioned that being able to vote is gradually being given to women, but they didn't have full suffrage yet, but what exactly do you mean? Were some women able to vote? Were just more people opening up to the IDEA?
You mentioned that being able to vote is gradually being given to women, but they didn't have full suffrage yet, but what exactly do you mean? Were some women able to vote? Were just more people opening up to the IDEA?
what i meant was that some states were allowing women to vote but there was no federal legislation on it. it shows there was recognition of the idea but it wasnt fully accepted yet.
8)Sweatshops brought to public eye .ex. Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire which killed 146 women, mostly young girls.
Hey, I think this is one of the topics we discussed at the after school study group. People were so desparate to get out of the building that they began jumping out of the windows because all the doors were locked. And a lot of the girls were "impaled" on the fence.
Trusts were a very big deal during this time period. New state and federal laws were sprouting out of the woodwork to stop such companies as Standard Oil and today Microsoft.
Just a correction, excuse me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Aldrich-vreeland Act passed due to the Panic of 1907, not 1807??
But anyways, the Aldrich-vreeland Act established the National Monetary Commission. That in return recommended the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Congress extended the act when British and others demanded immediate payments in gold.
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to order meat instructions. Any meat that was unsuitable for human consumption would be "condemned". This law was supposed to help the American diet. The labels on food had to be totally 100 percent accurate. There were warnings on containers. The law partially came about because of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
