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The Struggle for Justice
Social Responsibility and
Progressivism, 1900-1920
The Progressive Movement
 The
Need for Reform
 Reformer’s Assumptions
 Goals of the Progressives
 Social
Reform
 Reforming Government
 Reforming Business
The Search for the Good
Society
 Poverty
Exposed
 Women’s Activism
 Social Welfare
 “Muckraker” journalism
 Consumer Protectionism
 The Curse of Demon Rum
 Woman Suffrage
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Reforming Government
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Local Level Reform
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State Level Reform
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Fighting “Machine Politics”
Galveston and City Manager Government
Ballot initiatives, referenda, recall, primaries, progressive
income taxes
Restrictive measures
Federal Level Reform
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16th Amendment (1913)
17th Amendment (1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Reforming Business
 Consumer
Protection Laws
 Pure
Food and Drug Act (1906)
 Meat Inspection Act (1906 )
 “Trust-busting”
 Sherman
Anti-Trust Act (1890)
 Teddy Roosevelt’s campaign against monopoly
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Jacob Riis, How the Other Half
Lives (1890)
5 cents a spot
Bandit’s Roost
Italian Mother and
Her Baby
Galveston
Hurricane,
1901
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
Amendment 16
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect
taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived,
without apportionment among the several States, and
without regard to any census or enumeration.
Amendment 17
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two
Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for
six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors
in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors
of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.
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