Progressivism Flashcards
PIAL
Point Issue Argument Link
MEAT
Main Point Evidence Analysis Transition
Conclusion
Summarise argument and significanxe
Issues Progressives faced
Industrial Capitalism- Labour problem, Voting Rights for Women, Education, Corruption in Govt, Power of Trusts, muckracking, costs vs labour
Who were they (progressives
Reformers, Middle Class
Wanted? Progressives
Business regulation, Professional expertise- Taylorism, Social justice, democracy, efficiency
Caused? Progressives
Political system change, restrict vote, suppressed voters- immigrants and African A’s, literacy requirements and taxes
Roosevelt
Expedition Act, Elkins act, ICC, Department of Commerce and Labour, Meat Inspection Act
William Howard Taft
Trustbuster, ICC, Federal income tax, elections of people
Problems Taft
Payne-Aldrich act- little to lower tariffs, Gifford Pinchot- firing
Wilson
Underwood-Simmons, Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission
African Issues
Plessy vs Ferguson 1896, Primary elections, Grandfather Clause 1867, Wages and unions, Lynching, Birth of Nation
Ida B. Wells
Train seat, Journalistic Crusade, Lynching, Free Speech. Headlight editor, White Supremacy end
Booker T. Washington
little to antagonize, skills, Roosevelt, not volatile
W.E.Dubois-
Washington clash, Scientific Social Analysis, Marxism, world context
Help African A?
No. Lillian Wald, Mary Ovington, Oswald Villard, African A seperate businesses
Women
Middle-Class, Clerical work 80%, New Woman, Margaret Sanger, Florence Kelly, Jane Addams, National Womens Clubs,
Improvement?
Immigrants
Eastern Europe and Italy, Cultural difference, Jobs, Cities- overcrowding, Sacco and Vanzetti
Poor
Rural-Urban, Quality of Life- 1/3, Cities issues- New Deal
Farmers
Federal Farm Loan Act, McKinley Tariff, Populist Party
American Rise
Spanish-American, The Maine, Guam etc
Neutrality
Isolationism, favoured
Election 1916
William P Frye, The Luisitania, Financial interest, Sub Warfare, Zimmerman, Russian Rev- peace
After WW1
Paris Peace, Treaty of V, League of Nations, Irreconcibles- Johnson + Borah, Reservationists- Lodge, Article 10