Progressive Roots

• Equality now focused on workers not racial equality and stuff

• Industrialists wanted more power less controversial people

• Fancy people were coming up like progressive theorists (no more laissez-faire)

• Populists said something about bloated trusts being bad and corrupt

• 1894 Henry said wealth against commonwealth

• Thorstein said opposite

• Thorby said ewww leisure time, consumerism

• Riis also came wrote stuff

• Roosevelt swayed buy this

• Socialists grew

• Most were from the ‘old’ world

• Christians said social gospel cause Christianity but make it socialist

• Feminism added stuff to reform

• Examples of Jane Adams and Lillian Wald, who worked for families

Raking Muck with the Muckrakers

• Exposure of mistreatment became business for America especially reporters

• Roosevelt didn’t like called the muckrakers in 1906

• Still just went ahead and did what they did

• 1902 Lincoln Steffens said shame of the city

• Expose corruption and evil government

• Worked with Ida to tear down standard oil company

Political Progressivism

• Teddy was a progressive they were materialists,“ who thrilled to the strenuous life, as well as passages, such as Jane Adams, whose lofty goals included the abolition of war.“

• Feminist workers wanted to Americanize immigrants in a sense that more movement more forward core rather than housewife core

• Wanted to have the same momentum as unions and yada yada yada

• Two goals

  • Improve normal peoples life overall

  • “ Monopoly power”

• There were progressives everywhere

• Wanted to bring back power to the people

  • Things they liked

    • Initiative

    • Referendum

    • Recall

• Liked direct US senator elections (direct elections)

• 17th amendment establish

• Women movements grew new allies

• States started to become more OK with letting women have rights and voting rights

Progressivism in the Cities and States

• Progressivism was most popular in the city

• Urban reformers did not like slumlords teenage dirtbag’s and prostitution

• Eventually want to stay in Wisconsin especially

• Bob M came up was “the most progressive Republican“

• Other states also join them eventually

• Wanted to control, railroads and public stuff

Progressive Women

• Women took part big part in army

• Most first women activist focused on settlement houses

• Allowed for middle-class women to look at how terrible cities were, and are

• Top people stuff, and they slowly gain confidence to fight for their own rights and stuff

• Made like literacy clubs, where they could educate themselves

• Talked about marital issues

• And maternal issues

• Worked on getting money from the government for women with children and safe food and stuff

• Cases established stuff

  • Muller v Oregon

    • make laws protecting female workers

  • Lochner v New York

    • 10 hour days for bakers

• Establishing workers rights

• Alcohol and prostitution go hand-in-hand so all alcohol bad

• Some women say no alcohol

TR‘s Square Deal for Labor

• Teddy was like crappy I need to do some thing

• Said if everybody divided nobody together, no union like Lincoln said union union union

• Made square deal “for capital labor, and the public at large”

• People did not like

• Strikes popped up in Pennsylvania

• Illiterate immigrants started rising up

• What is 20% increase in money and less working hours

• Union busters also known as mine owners crush them like Georgie F

• The cold strikes shut down factories and schools and hospitals during the winter

• Roosevelt was like that is not good

• Said ay yo let’s all have dinner together

• Did not like the owners?

• Made the federal troops take the minds and run them

• Honors then we’re like hey give me back my company and I’ll give them what they want kind of

• Unions were proven to work

• 1903 bureau of corporations was made

TR Corrals the Cooperations

• Railroads were more strict now

• To do so congress made Elkins act

• Against rebates, heavy fine

• Hepburn Act also do similar but not as affective

• Let teddy say NO to trusts

• Said there were good ones for the public

• Bad for greed

• Teddy did not like monopolies

• Supreme Court in 1905 said beef trust? We’ve got beef so your now illegal

• Sorry not sorry bud

• Used ✨mythology✨

• Never said no trust to full prez power that he could have

• Big man still became richer

Caring for the Consumer (overall increase in sanitation in food, meat)

• Roosevelt is like actually meat is disgusting

• Like that’s nasty nasty man

• Clean up or I make everyone vegan 👿

• Meat inspection act of 1906

Earth Control

• Wow, it’s almost like if you listen to the Native Americans that I’ve lived here for like thousands upon thousands of years I know the land better than you do so they know how to sustainably use it. You wouldn’t be facing this problem.

• White people made bad decisions with land

• they abused it, and all that

• Desert act of 1877 said give land water

• If not die (jk)

• Forest reserve act of 1891 say prez can make parks

• Was all about the frontier

The Rosie Panic of 1907

• Was picked for a new term

• Financial world said boo Rosie

The Rough Rider Thunders Out

• Could’ve won another election maybe but didn’t run

• Picked William Howard Taft secretary of war

• Basically, a teddy puppet

• Was basically put in place to not let anything that Roosevelt wouldn’t like happen, but not do anything

• Democrats put up William Jennings Bryan

• Majority was Taft

• Where was Rosie? Hunting.

• Business people were like now this is chance to attack attack attack

Taft: A round peg in a square hole

• Taft was no real leader, just puppet

• He was a pacifist

The Dollar Goes Abroad as a Diplomat

• Pushed dollar globally

• Said no dollar diplomacy

• Imperialism?

Taft the Trustbuster

• Once again, he was puppet

• So follow Rosie in no trust

• Killed many more trucks than Rosie

• Killed standard oil company because of Sherman trust act of 1890s

• Taft also pushed for antitrust thing against US steel corporation

• Rosie did not like that

• Oop🙊

Taft Splits the Republican Party

• Trusts split the party

• Became tuft versus Roosevelt

• March 1909 Taft was like secret meeting with Congress

• house then passed moderately reductive bill

• Taft pushed for Payne Aldrich bill, said best bill and like in your face man

• Taft, though was not good words

• Made bigger problems in 1910

• Other part of the party was like I’m gonna bite you in the butt Taft

• Republican Party overall struggle like lost votes

Taft v Rosie

• Made national progressive. Where at senator of Wisconsin came as a big president for Republicans.

• Roosevelt was like nah I’m done with y’all

• Then he was like Taft you know what screw you I am running

• Rosie took it back from Wisconsin guy

• Republicans met in Chicago, 1912 to discuss Taft v Rosie

• Taft one but Roosevelt was like I’m not gonna let this stop me

• He’s so imperialist girly pop core

The “Bull Moose” Campaign of 1912

• Democrats now see Republicans like screwing up destroying themselves

• It’s my entrance now

• Put up Woodrow Wilson

• Big progressive

• Wilson was like trust, but not really trust

• Put Wilson on new freedom program

• Was for women’s rights and Jane Adams and all that

• Was Roosevelts, new nationalism v Wilson’s new freedom

• Roosevelt also was about women’s rights and social welfare and all that but more about kind of new deal that comes with Frankie

• Wilson had won