The Progressive Era or Social Gospel movement
Protecting Social Welfare
Set up settlement houses for poor
Opened libraries
Sponsored education classes
Opened swimming pools
Set up soup kitchens
Slum brigades- teach immigrants
Elections
Allowed secret ballots os people wouldn't have influenced votes
Initiative- regular people could vote on laws
Referendum- Other people could vote for or against these laws
Recall- officials would have to face another election if disliked
Direct election of senators
Seventeenth amendment- This allowed for senators to be elected
Each state had 2
Each senator has one vote
The have 6 year terms
Promoting Moral Improvement
Prohibition
Banning the manufacturing and sale of alcohol
Carrie Nation
Why buy alcohol?
Women's suffrage
Reforming Elections
States adopt secret ballot
Direct Primary
Initiative- a bill originated by the people rather that lawmakers
Referendum
Socialism
Government owns businesses
Everybody is “taken care of” not like kings but not like bums
Lots of people liked the idea
Women in the workforce
Just in towns and cities
1 out of 5 women had a job
25% of them were working at a manufactory
Men’s labor unions excluded women
Domestic workers
Cleaning for other families
Did regular around the house things
Susan B. Anthony
Born to a strict quaker family
Founded the NWSA
15th amendment- “right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US”
Wages- Square Deal
Workers getting paid less, called for better working conditions and higher pay
1902 coal strike
President Roosevelt gave both sides a chance to intervene and eventually settled the strike
Interstate commerce act
Passed in 1887 for the purpose of regulating wealthy railroad owners from colluding to fix high price
Trust busting
Trusts had poor regulations with the public by the use of unfair business practices
Many trusts lowered their prices to drive competitors
Federal Trade commision
Founded in 1914
Prevent unfair trade
Promoted competition
New tax systems
Sixteenth Amendment said that Congress had power to tax incomes and collect taxes base
Federal reserve
Put into place in 1913
Stopped small banks from closing
Gave banks their own bank
Controls amount of money in circulation
Adams Act
Direct election of senators
Everybody is able to vote
Prohibition
Women's Vote
President Taft
Aldrich tariff
Dollar Diplomacy
America uses it economic power
Mann Act
Stopped prostitution
Known as the “White Slave Traffic act”
U.S. Postal Savings system
Put their money in depositories where their money grew
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