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Progressive Movement
Four Goals Of Progressive: * Protecting social welfare- Keeping people in good financial shape and living conditions. * Promoting moral improvements- Reformers that believed moral values are more important then financial health. * Creating economic reform- Americans did not like Capitalist ways of major businesses, which caused hard working americans to lean toward socialism. * Fostering efficiency- Finding new methods to make society and workplace more effcient.
Reforming Government Local- Set an example and if it works other cities will follow State- Passed several laws to reform the railroads, mines, mills, and telephone company hours. National- The seventeenth Amendment to the constitution allowed the direct election of senetors.
Election Of 1912 Republicans- William Taft- 8 electoral votes, 3.4 million pop. votes Democrats-Woodrow Wilson-435 electoral votes, 6.2 million pop. votes Bull Moose Party- Progressive party that called for direct vote.
Womens Rights Women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were suffragist for womens rights. They would protest to gain the rights that men had, like voting.
Square Deal This term is used to describe the various progressive reform sponsored by the Roosevelt administration.
Womens Role in the Work Force Most white women worked at home but immigrants and African American women were either servants or domestic workers.
Civil Rights Civil rights were slowly improving but women, blacks, and immigrants still werent equal.
Roosevelts Background Teddy Roosevelt is a hands on president, which helped him earn his popularity.
Conservationist People like Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, who advercated perservation of the wilderness.
Trustbusting When Roosevelt modified the Sherman Antitrust act into Modern terms so the public could benefit from it.
