Transcript POPULISTS AND PROGRESSIVES - Burke County Public Schools

POPULISTS
AND
PROGRESSIVES
POPULISM
Populism
-farmer’s party
-platform
-cheap money
-money backed by silver
-government ownership of railroads
-national warehouse
-democratic reforms
-initiative: people introduce legislation
-referendum: vote on the initiative
1892:
-Grover Cleveland (R)
-President
- “Deal With Wall Street”
- gold standard
-money backed by gold
1896:
-William Jennings Bryan
-Populist Presidential candidate
-Bimetalism
-money backed by gold and silver
-CROSS OF GOLD SPEECH
-McKinley (R)
-prosperity
- “goldbugs”
-wins election
RESULT:
POPULISM DIES!!!!
IMPACT
-Downtrodden could organize
-Agenda for 20th century reforms
-led to the PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
PROGRESSIVES
Progressive Movement
-both parties
-beliefs
-restore government to the people
-correct abuses in government and business
-equality
Robert “Fighting Bob” LaFollette
-first elected Progressive
-governor of Wisconsin
-treat corporations like they treat others
-main target: railroads
-regulation
-broke political machines
-conservation
-used scholars to attack corruption
MUCKRAKERS
-exposed evils and corruption
-Upton Sinclair
-The Jungle
-Frank Norris
-The Octopus
-Jacob Riis
-How the Other Half Lives
-Lincoln Steffens
-The Shame of the Cities
-Ida Tarbell
-History of Standard Oil
-gained support of the Progressives
Progressive Reforms
-Australian ballot
-secret
-eliminated open voting
-initiative
-voters introduce legislation
-petition
-referendum
-vote on initiative
-recall
-remove an official
-direct primary
-voter select candidates
-forms of government
-commission
-city council/city manager
-eliminates political machines
-direct election of senators
-senators elected by the people
-becomes 17th amendment
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY
ASSASSINATED!!!!!!!
-by Leon Czolgosz
-sentenced to death
TEDDY ROOSEVELT BECOMES
PRESIDENT!!!!!!
-youngest President
-Kennedy youngest elected
- outdoorsman
-big game hunter
-conservation
-bare knuckle boxer
-war hero
-Rough Riders
-Teddy Bear named for him
- “bully pulpit”
-brings issues to the forefront
Square Deal
-Roosevelt’s plan for America
-Backed labor
-ended the Coal Miner’s Strike
- “Trustbuster”
-attacked trusts
-Sherman Anti-Trust Act
-44 cases
-Supreme Court determines whether a trust is
good or bad
-Attacked Railroads
-Created Department of Commerce and Labor
-Health
-Meat Inspection Act
-government approves meat
-Pure Food and Drug Act
-prevents poisonous food or drugs
-Food and Drug Administration
-Conservation
-National Parks
-Wildlife Sanctuaries
-Newland Reclamation Act
-irrigate deserts or drain swamps
Yosemite National Park
Roosevelt Dam
William Howard Taft
-Roosevelt supported
-looked Progressive
-90 anti-trust cases
-Department of Labor
-no child labor
-Mann Elkins Act
-Utilities under Interstate Commerce Act
-expanded Civil Service
-Publicity Act
-politicians disclose funds
-ended corruption
-opened national parks
-REALLY NOT PROGRESSIVE!!!!!!
-Raised tariffs
-killed Roosevelt ideas (fires Pinchot: Forestry)
Election of 1912
-Republican
-Taft
-Progressive Party
- “Bull Moose” Party
-Roosevelt
-New Nationalism
-Democrats
-Woodrow Wilson
WILSON WINS!!!!!
-first Democratic Progressive
-New Freedom
-equality of opportunity
-Tariff reduction
-increases competition
-NO MONOPOLIES
-CLAYTON ANTI-TRUST ACT
-defined unfair practices
-endorsed labor unions and
farm organizations
-Federal Trade Commission
-investigates practices
-CREATED THE FEDERAL RESERVE
-Amendments
-16th
-Progressive Income tax
-17th
-Direct election of senators
-18th
-Prohibition
-19th
-WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
-right to vote
PROGRESSIVE WOMEN
-Susan B. Anthony
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Three part strategy
-convince states
-court cases to test the 14th Amendment
-national constitutional amendment
Methods
-Marches
-Hunger Strikes
BLACK PROGRESSIVES
-Booker T. Washington
- acquire “useful” skills
-Tuskegee Institute
-W.E.B. Dubois
-need education
-demand rights
-Niagara Falls
-formed National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Jim Crow Laws
-separation of whites and blacks
-SEGREGATION!!!!!!!
PLESSY V FERGUSON
-SEPARATE BUT EQUAL!!!!!!!
EVERYTHING WAS
NOT EQUAL!!!!!!