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The Progressive EraChapter 22
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Section 1
• The spoils system and the lack of regulation of big business were concerns that shaped the Gilded Age.
• Ending the Spoils System• •
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Section 1
• The Interstate Commerce Act forbade certain practices, such as rebates and pools
• The Sherman Antitrust Act forbade trusts and other businesses from limiting competition.
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Section 2
• Political bosses corrupted city government by taking payoffs from businesses and stealing from public funds, and using their power to influence office holders.
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Section 2
• Muckrakers used their journalistic skills to expose social ills; by doing so, they shocked middle-class Americans, who demanded change.
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Section 2
• Progressive Reformers Goals• Limit the power of big business• End political corruption• Solve social ills• Give voters more power
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Section 3
• Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal• Did away with some bad trusts• Supported laws strengthening inspection
procedures for food.• Put limits on lumbering
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Section 3
• Reformers opposed Taft because he raised tariffs and was accused of blocking conservation efforts.
• Taft lost the support of the Progressives. They and Roosevelt split off from Taft and the mainstream Republican Party.
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Section 3
• President Woodrow Wilson’s Accomplishments • Set up the FTC• Lowered tariffs• Regulated banking• Encouraged competition
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Section 4
• Women first organized a movement as early as 1848
• They formed a group to amend the Constitution.
• They picketed the White House.• As a result, Congress passed the 19th
amendment.
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Section 4
• Women managed to obtain higher education and earn degrees, but it was a struggle to be able to practice law or medicine.
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Section 4
• Women saw how alcohol created hardships in the home and destroyed families.
• They also opposed saloons, which they were usually banned from.
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Section 5
• African American Struggles • Segregation• Discrimination in housing and jobs• Lynchings• Unequal wages
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Section 5
• Mexican Americans protected their welfare in the United States by forming mutual aid societies.
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Section 5
• Problems for Asian Americans• Chinese Exclusion Act• Poor pay• Poor working conditions• Racial prejudice