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?