How did the role and responsibilities of the federal government change during the Progressive Era and the New Deal?
The Progressive Era, 1900-1917
Chapter 19
Organizing for Change
- Spearheads of Reform: The Settlement Houses
- Hull House
- 1st settlement house in Chicago
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- Women and Reform
- The New Woman
- Women increasing control over their lives in regard to the birth rate
- Muller v. Oregon (1908)
- Woman Suffrage
- Moral Reform
- Prohibition
- Mann Act
Organizing for Change
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- Racial Issues
- Usually more remote than other issues
- Lynching
- Niagara Movement
- NAACP
- Challenging Capitalism: Socialists and Wobblies
- Eugene V. Debs
- IWW
Organizing for Change
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The Reform of Politics and the Politics of Reform
- Exposing Corruption: The Muckrakers
- Journalists played an important role in preparing the ground for reform
- McClure’s Magazine
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Meat Inspection Act
- Reforming City Government
- Honest and efficient
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- Reforming State Government
- Robert M. LaFollette
- Direct primary
- Merit system
- The Weakening of Parties and Rise of Organized Interest Groups
- Oregon System
The Reform of Politics and the Politics of Reform
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Roosevelt, Taft, and
Republican Progressivism
- Roosevelt: Asserting the Power of the Presidency
- Saw political office as a duty he owed the nation
- Trustbusting
- The Square Deal in Action: Federal Economic Regulation
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- Regulating Natural Resources
- TR established 5 national parks
- 50 wildlife preserves
- Strongly supported National Reclamation Act of 1902
- Taft’s Troubles
- More restrained than Roosevelt
- Republican Party split
Roosevelt, Taft, and
Republican Progressivism
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“Carry a Big Stick”:
Roosevelt, Taft, and World Affairs
- Taking Panama
- Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1904)
- Canal completed in 1914
- Making the Caribbean an American Lake
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
- Taft & Wilson continued to expand Roosevelt’s policy
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- Roosevelt and Eastern Asia
- Roosevelt built on the:
- Open Door Notes
- American participation against the Boxers
- Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
- Gentleman’s Agreement (1907)
“Carry a Big Stick”:
Roosevelt, Taft, and World Affairs
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Wilson and Democratic Progressivism
- Debating the Future: The Election of 1912
- Republicans plagued by division & economic downturn
- Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party’s candidate
- Woodrow Wilson won presidency
- Democrats won Congress
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Wilson and Democratic Progressivism
- Wilson and Reform, 1913 to 1916
- Wilson believed in active role for president in policymaking
- Underwood Act
- Federal Reserve System
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Federal Trade Commission Act
- Transformation of American Politics and Government
- Roosevelt & Wilson asserted presidential authority
- Americans came to expect domestic policy to flow from the White House
- Reforms rarely fulfilled all the expectations of their proponents.
Progressivism in Perspective
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- Another Round of Reform and the Election of 1916
Wilson and Democratic Progressivism
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Progressivism in Perspective
- The Transformation of American Politics and Government
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