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