Unit 5 - the Gilded and Progressive Age

The jungle

Book that highlighted corruption and the dangerous working conditions + meat packing conditions

The Pure Food and Drug Act + The Meat Inspection Act

to protect public safety, were passed after The Jungle came out

Fed gov and the private businesses

They were regulated more in the progressive era

Interstate Commerce Act

Impacted railroads - no discrimination, have to have same fees for everyone

Muckrakers

Name for investigative journalists

women advocated for this during the progressive era

Less hours in the workday

Who was the populist party

Appealed to ppl in the south, advocated for shorter workweeks, public ownership of railroads

Teddy Roosevelt

Teddy Roovelt - Changed the American president, he said prez was “steward of the people” and would do anything to improve their life that was allowed by law

Chinese exclusion act

Chinese exclusion act - First law to prohibit a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the US

Laissez Faire

Very little regulation by the gov and led to many problems such as monopolies, corruption and consumer safety issues

Woodrow Wilson

Prez that had a stroke in his office + his wife ran the White House

Improvements for local gov done by progressive era

- income tax

- ballot initiatives

- city manager

Booker T Washington’s belief

believed in gradual progress through economic advancement and accommodation to white society,

Dubois belief

believed in immediate action through political activism and challenging discriminatory laws

Sherman antitrust act

law that was passed to prohibit monopolies

when was the gilded age

1870 - 1900

who was the greatest inventor of the gilded age

Thomas Edison - the lightbulb, phonograph, battery

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Railroad guy

Andrew Carnegie

Steel guy

Rockefeller

oil guy

JP Morgan

Finance guy

horizontal integration

used to buy competitors

vertical integration

used to buy companies to get more resources

gospel of wealth

some men had to become wealthy and then help others w it

what was the progressive era

an era of change that fought problems such as corruption and monopolies

Pendleton Act in 1883

passed by gov to create a merit test for fed gov positions rather than having connections

The “Wisconsin Idea”

used university research to create new ideas like income tax and regulations on big businesses

change in the 17th amendment

now ppl could vote direclty for the senators

Taft’s presidency

he broke up more monopolies, created safety laws for miners, but also supported big businessnes and used the natural reserves Roosevelt set aside, this was bad

the progressive party

aka the “bull moose party” - created by roosevelt when the republicans didn’t pick him as candidate

woodrow’s presidency

clayton antitrust act (protected workers right to protest), women’s suffrage, regulated big businesses

Social Gospel Movement

to honor God, people must help others and reform society 

temperance reformers

fought for alcohol prohibition

18th amendment

no more alcohol!

flow of allowing women to vote

started from west then east

19th amendment

women get right to vote!!