Transcript The Progressive Era Reforms

The Progressive Era
Reforms
Protecting Social Welfare
Public Health & Housing
Settlement Houses
Jane Addams’ Hull-House
Building Codes
Conservation
National Forests
Child-Women Labor
Illinois Factory Act (1893)
Florence Kelley
Education
Compulsory Attendance –
John Dewey
Today!
A 14 or 15 year old minor may NOT work
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before 7 a.m.
after 7 p.m. between Labor Day and June 1.
after 9 p.m. June 1 through Labor Day.
more than 8 hours on non-school days.
more than 3 hours on school days.
more than 24 hours during school weeks.
more than 48 hours during non-school weeks.
more than six days per week.
Promoting Moral
Improvement
Temperance
WCTU
18th Amendment
Creating Economic Reform
Corporate Regulation
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
(1890)
Pure Food & Drug Act
(1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1905)
The Jungle –
Upton Sinclair
(muckraker)
Assembly Line (1913)
Meatpacking to Henry Ford
A Revolution is Coming!
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Captains of Industry – believed
they were superior to the elected
government.
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Difference between “good” and
“bad” trusts
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“Bad” trusts need to be “BUSTED”
Promoting Political Reform
Government Accountability
Initiatives – gave voters the power
to start a bill w/a petition
Referendum – allowed voters to
accept or reject the initiative
Recall – gave voters power to
replace or remove officials from
office
17th Amendment (1913)
Direct election of
senators
Robert LaFollette – Gov. WI
Regulated big business
NAACP
National Assoc. for the
Advancement of Colored
People
19th Amendment (1920)
Women’s Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony