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Progressive Roots

  • Equality now focused on workers not racial equality and stuff
  • Industrialists wanted more power less controversial people
  • Fancy people were coming up like progressive theorists (no more laissez-faire)
  • Populists said something about bloated trusts being bad and corrupt
  • 1894 Henry said wealth against commonwealth
  • Thorstein said opposite
  • Thorby said ewww leisure time, consumerism
  • Riis also came wrote stuff
  • Roosevelt swayed buy this
  • Socialists grew
  • Most were from the ‘old’ world
  • Christians said social gospel cause Christianity but make it socialist
  • Feminism added stuff to reform
  • Examples of Jane Adams and Lillian Wald, who worked for families

Raking Muck with the Muckrakers

  • Exposure of mistreatment became business for America especially reporters
  • Roosevelt didn’t like called the muckrakers in 1906
  • Still just went ahead and did what they did
  • 1902 Lincoln Steffens said shame of the city
  • Expose corruption and evil government
  • Worked with Ida to tear down standard oil company

Political Progressivism

  • Teddy was a progressive they were materialists,“ who thrilled to the strenuous life, as well as passages, such as Jane Adams, whose lofty goals included the abolition of war.“
  • Feminist workers wanted to Americanize immigrants in a sense that more movement more forward core rather than housewife core
  • Wanted to have the same momentum as unions and yada yada yada
  • Two goals
    • Improve normal peoples life overall
    • “ Monopoly power”
  • There were progressives everywhere
  • Wanted to bring back power to the people
    • Things they liked
    • Initiative
    • Referendum
    • Recall
  • Liked direct US senator elections (direct elections)
  • 17th amendment establish
  • Women movements grew new allies
  • States started to become more OK with letting women have rights and voting rights

Progressivism in the Cities and States

  • Progressivism was most popular in the city
  • Urban reformers did not like slumlords teenage dirtbag’s and prostitution
  • Eventually want to stay in Wisconsin especially
  • Bob M came up was “the most progressive Republican“
  • Other states also join them eventually
  • Wanted to control, railroads and public stuff

Progressive Women

  • Women took part big part in army
  • Most first women activist focused on settlement houses
  • Allowed for middle-class women to look at how terrible cities were, and are
  • Top people stuff, and they slowly gain confidence to fight for their own rights and stuff
  • Made like literacy clubs, where they could educate themselves
  • Talked about marital issues
  • And maternal issues
  • Worked on getting money from the government for women with children and safe food and stuff
  • Cases established stuff
    • Muller v Oregon
    • make laws protecting female workers
    • Lochner v New York
    • 10 hour days for bakers
  • Establishing workers rights
  • Alcohol and prostitution go hand-in-hand so all alcohol bad
  • Some women say no alcohol

TR‘s Square Deal for Labor

  • Teddy was like crappy I need to do some thing
  • Said if everybody divided nobody together, no union like Lincoln said union union union
  • Made square deal “for capital labor, and the public at large”
  • People did not like
  • Strikes popped up in Pennsylvania
  • Illiterate immigrants started rising up
  • What is 20% increase in money and less working hours
  • Union busters also known as mine owners crush them like Georgie F
  • The cold strikes shut down factories and schools and hospitals during the winter
  • Roosevelt was like that is not good
  • Said ay yo let’s all have dinner together
  • Did not like the owners?
  • Made the federal troops take the minds and run them
  • Honors then we’re like hey give me back my company and I’ll give them what they want kind of
  • Unions were proven to work
  • 1903 bureau of corporations was made

TR Corrals the Cooperations

  • Railroads were more strict now
  • To do so congress made Elkins act
  • Against rebates, heavy fine
  • Hepburn Act also do similar but not as affective
  • Let teddy say NO to trusts
  • Said there were good ones for the public
  • Bad for greed
  • Teddy did not like monopolies
  • Supreme Court in 1905 said beef trust? We’ve got beef so your now illegal
  • Sorry not sorry bud
  • Used ✨mythology✨
  • Never said no trust to full prez power that he could have
  • Big man still became richer

Caring for the Consumer (overall increase in sanitation in food, meat)

  • Roosevelt is like actually meat is disgusting

  • Like that’s nasty nasty man

  • Clean up or I make everyone vegan 👿

  • Meat inspection act of 1906

Earth Control

  • Wow, it’s almost like if you listen to the Native Americans that I’ve lived here for like thousands upon thousands of years I know the land better than you do so they know how to sustainably use it. You wouldn’t be facing this problem.
  • White people made bad decisions with land
  • they abused it, and all that
  • Desert act of 1877 said give land water
  • If not die (jk)
  • Forest reserve act of 1891 say prez can make parks
  • Was all about the frontier

The Rosie Panic of 1907

  • Was picked for a new term
  • Financial world said boo Rosie

The Rough Rider Thunders Out

  • Could’ve won another election maybe but didn’t run
  • Picked William Howard Taft secretary of war
  • Basically, a teddy puppet
  • Was basically put in place to not let anything that Roosevelt wouldn’t like happen, but not do anything
  • Democrats put up William Jennings Bryan
  • Majority was Taft
  • Where was Rosie? Hunting.
  • Business people were like now this is chance to attack attack attack

Taft: A round peg in a square hole

  • Taft was no real leader, just puppet
  • He was a pacifist

The Dollar Goes Abroad as a Diplomat

  • Pushed dollar globally
  • Said no dollar diplomacy
  • Imperialism?

Taft the Trustbuster

  • Once again, he was puppet
  • So follow Rosie in no trust
  • Killed many more trucks than Rosie
  • Killed standard oil company because of Sherman trust act of 1890s
  • Taft also pushed for antitrust thing against US steel corporation
  • Rosie did not like that
  • Oop🙊

Taft Splits the Republican Party

  • Trusts split the party
  • Became tuft versus Roosevelt
  • March 1909 Taft was like secret meeting with Congress
  • house then passed moderately reductive bill
  • Taft pushed for Payne Aldrich bill, said best bill and like in your face man
  • Taft, though was not good words
  • Made bigger problems in 1910
  • Other part of the party was like I’m gonna bite you in the butt Taft
  • Republican Party overall struggle like lost votes

Taft v Rosie

  • Made national progressive. Where at senator of Wisconsin came as a big president for Republicans.

  • Roosevelt was like nah I’m done with y’all

  • Then he was like Taft you know what screw you I am running

  • Rosie took it back from Wisconsin guy

  • Republicans met in Chicago, 1912 to discuss Taft v Rosie

  • Taft one but Roosevelt was like I’m not gonna let this stop me

  • He’s so imperialist girly pop core

The “Bull Moose” Campaign of 1912

  • Democrats now see Republicans like screwing up destroying themselves
  • It’s my entrance now
  • Put up Woodrow Wilson
  • Big progressive
  • Wilson was like trust, but not really trust
  • Put Wilson on new freedom program
  • Was for women’s rights and Jane Adams and all that
  • Was Roosevelts, new nationalism v Wilson’s new freedom
  • Roosevelt also was about women’s rights and social welfare and all that but more about kind of new deal that comes with Frankie
  • Wilson had won