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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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