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Progressive Reformers
11.2.9. Understand the effect of political programs
and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal
regulation of railroad transport, Children's Bureau,
the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt,
Hiram Johnson).
Example: Jane Addams:
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What she did
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Creator of Hull House
• A charity organization for the
poor
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Worked toward
establishing:
• first juvenile-court law,
• tenement-house regulation,
• eight-hour working day for
women,
• factory inspection,
• workers' compensation
• Woman suffrage
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Significance
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American social
reformer and pacifist.
Winner of the Nobel
Prize for Peach 1931
Jacob Riis
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What he did
Wrote a book, How the
Other Half Lives
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Showed the extreme
poverty of working class
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Significance
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Photographer; took
picture of poor living
conditions
Hiram Johnson
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What he did
helped form the
Progressive Party
 initiative
 referendum
 recall
 direct primary election
 eight-hour work day for
women and children
 Workers Compensation
Act pensions for retired
teachers
 more government control
of the railroads and
utilities.
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Significance
reform governor of
California (1911–17)
 U.S. senator for 28 years
(1917–45 )
 Progressive Republican
 isolationist
Ida M. Tarbell
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What she did
 Exposed the ruthless
business tactics of
The Standard Oil
Company
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Significance
 Muckraker – wrote for
McClure’s Magazine
 The History of the
Standard Oil
Company (1904).
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President
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What he did
expanded the powers of
the presidency
Increased government
control over big railroad,
oil, and meatpacking
"trusts."
Conserved land
"Square Deal" domestic
program: welfare
legislation and
government regulation
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Significance
26th president of the
United States (1901–09)
writer
naturalist
Soldier
first environmentalist
William Howard Taft
27th President
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What he did
 Sixteenth Amendment
(income tax)
 Seventeenth
Amendment (direct
election of senators)
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Significance
 27th President of the
United States (19091913)
 known as the "Great
Trust-Buster."
Woodrow Wilson
28th president
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What he did
Federal power to ensure
equality of opportunity
tariff reduction
reform of the banking
and monetary system
new laws to weaken
abusive corporations and
restore economic
competition
Federal Reserve Act of
1913:regulates the
nation's banks, credit,
and money supply
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Significance
President 1914-1918
Viewed monopolies as
enemies of competition
supported unions
William Edward B. Du Bois
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What he did
Created the National
Association for the
Advancement of
Colored People
(NAACP) interracial
American organization
created to work for the
abolition of segregation
and discrimination in
housing, education,
employment, voting, and
transportation; to oppose
racism; and to ensure
African Americans their
constitutional rights
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Significance
American sociologist
most important black
protest leader
Upton Sinclair:
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What he did
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Wrote the book The
Jungle
Revealed the
dangerous and
unsanitary conditions in
a slaughterhouse
Pure Food and Drug Act
was passed
organized the EPIC
(End Poverty in
California) socialist
reform movement;
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Significance
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Muckraker
defeated as
Democratic candidate
for governor
John Muir
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What he did
 Helped to pass the
Yosemite national
Park Bill
 Helped to get the
government to
conserve land (148
million acres of
forests & # of national
parks doubles in the
U.S. (Roosevelt)
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Significance
 Environmentalist
Robert La Follette
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What he did
 Fought to clean up
political corruption
 voters election of
candidates
 Tax property owned by
corporations
 Regulation of RR rates
 Creation of commission
to regulate businesses
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Significance
Attorney General
U.S. House member
1901 Governor of
Wisconsin