Roots of Progressivism
PopulistsSocial Gospel
Settlement HousesHull House in Chicago
Muckrakers
Jacob Riis-How the Other Half Lives
Lincoln Steffens-Shame of the Cities
The Jungle
Political Progressivism
• Direct Primary• Initiative• Referendum• Recall• Australian Ballot• Direct Election of
Senators – 17th Amend.• Women Suffrage – 19th
Amend.• City Manager System
Progressive Reform at the state and local level
Robert LaFollette – Wisconsin Governor “laboratory o f democracy”
• Initiative, • referendum, • recall• City Manager system
Social Progressivism
• Triangle Shirtwaist Fire• Safety and Sanitation
Codes• Muller vs. Oregon• Jane Addams – Hull
House• Women Christian
Temperance Union -18th Amendment
Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
• Corporations – Northern Securities Company• Consumers – Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat
Inspection Act• Conservation – Yosemite National Forest
1912 Presidential Election
• Democrat – Woodrow Wilson• Republican – William H. Taft• Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party) –
Theodore Roosevelt• Socialist Party – Eugene V. Debs
Wilsonian Progressivism
• Underwood Tariff 1913 – Tariff reduction• Federal Reserve Act 1913 – Banking reform• 16th Amendment 1913 – Income Tax• 17th Amendment 1913 – Direct election of senators
• Federal Trade Commission Act 1914• Clayton Anti- Trust Act 1914• LaFollette Seamen’s Act 1915• Federal Farm Loan Act 1915• Workingmen’s Compensation Act 1916• 18th Amendment - Prohibition• 19th Amendment – Women’s suffrage