APUSH Ch 28

Wealth Against Commonwealth

Henry Demarest Lloyd, against Standard Oil Company

Who wrote 'The Theory of the Leisure Class'?

Thorstein Veblen

What concept did Thorstein Veblen attack in his book?

Predatory wealth and conspicuous consumption

What did Thorstein Veblen believe businesses should focus on?

Making products that were actually needed or useful rather than just for profit

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob A. Riis, condemned NY slums, influenced TR

The Financer (1912) & The Titan (1914)

Theodore Dreiser, against promoters and profiteers

"The Shame of the Cities"

Lincoln Steffens, McClure's, series of articles about the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government

What did Ida M. Tarbell attack?

Standard Oil Company

"Frenzied Finance"

Thomas W. Lawson, book exposing stock market abuses and insurance fraud

"The Treason of the Senate"

David G. Philips, Cosmopolitan, 70 of 95 senators didn't represent the people, but the railroads and trusts

Main 2 goals of progressives

use the state to curb monopoly power, improve the common person's conditions of life and labor

Other objectives of progressives

Regain the people's power (initiative, referendum, recall), root out graft, direct election of US senators, woman suffrage

initiative

voters could directly propose legislation

referendum

place laws on the ballot for final approval from the people

recall

enable voters to remove faithless elected officials

Robert M ("Fighting Bob") La Follette

Wisconsin governor, progressive Republican who returned control of lumber and railroad interests to the people, perfected scheme for regulating public utilities, later candidate for National Progressive Republican League

Hiram W. Johnson

Republican governor in 1910, prosecutor of grafters, helped to break grip of Southern Pacific Railroad on CA politics

Charles Evan Hughes

Republican governor, investigator of malpractices by gas/insurance companies, coal trust

Florence Kelley

IL's 1st chief factory inspector, advocated for improved factory conditions

Muller v. Oregon

Louis D. Brandeis persuaded SC to accept laws protecting women workers by showing evidence of the harmful effects of factory labor on the weaker bodies

Lochner v. New York

SC invalidated NY law establishing a 10-hr day for bakers, 1917 law was upheld

Square Deal

Control of the corporations, consumer protection, conservation of natural resources

Elkins Act of 1903

heavy fines for rebates given or accepted

Hepburn Act of 1906

free passes for trains restricted

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair, disgusted people with descriptions of how meat was handled

Meat Inspection Act of 1906

all meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

prevented the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals

Desert Land Act of 1877

federal gov sold arid land cheaply on the condition that the purchaser irrigate the soil within three years

Forest Reserve Act of 1891

authorized president to set aside public forests as national parks and other reserves

Carey Act of 1894

distributed federal land to the states on the condition that it be irrigated and settled

Gifford Pinchot

head of the federal Division of Forestry

Newlands Act

let gov collect money from sale of public lands and the money would fund development of irrigation projects, used to fund Roosevelt Dam

Aldrich-Vreeland Act

lets banks to issue emergency currency, created the National Monetary Commission

Brownsville Affair

TR ordered dishonorable charges for many black buffalo soldiers accused of inciting fight

Dollar Diplomacy

Where US dollars go, US marines are sure to follow, encouraged private companies to invest in certain countries

Payne-Aldrich Bill

compromise between Payne and Aldrich proposal which had competing views for tariff rates

New Nationalism

urged gov to increase power to remedy economic + social abuse