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* 1890s-1910s Progressive Era<br> | * 1890s-1910s Progressive Era<br> | ||
* | * Jacob Reis photographs NYC tenements<br><br> | ||
* Teddy Roosevelt becomes NYC police commissioner<br><br> | |||
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** progressives believed that government corruption would be fixed by more “direct” participation of voters in laws and government | ** progressives believed that government corruption would be fixed by more “direct” participation of voters in laws and government | ||
** = voters to decide "directly" by-passing legislatures | ** = voters to decide "directly" by-passing legislatures | ||
** = | ** = '''initiative, referendum & recall''' | ||
*** initiative = voters can propose laws to be voted on by popular vote (majority vote) | *** initiative = voters can propose laws to be voted on by popular vote (majority vote) | ||
*** referendum = voters can veto or block existing laws by popular vote | *** referendum = voters can veto or block existing laws by popular vote | ||
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=== Progressive Era personalities === | === Progressive Era personalities === | ||
* Robert LaFollette: WI Senator, progressive movement leader | |||
* Theodore Roosevelt | |||
* WEB DuBois: founder of the NAACP | |||
* Margaret Sanger: womens’ suffrage & rights, promoted contraceptives and abortion 1890s | |||
=== | === Progressive Era legacies === | ||
* | * food safety and child labor laws | ||
* workplace regulations | |||
* regulatory bodies composed of "experts" | |||
* '''17th Amendment direct election of senators''' | |||
* '''primaries''' (electoral) | |||
* '''Federal Reserve Board''' | |||
** in its ultimate form it was not a central bank | |||
** a compromise between public and private banking (see below) | |||
** main job = to regulate the money supply | |||
* the Progressive agenda was more fully enacted in federal law under the 1930s Depression-Era '''New Deal''' | |||
=== | === Progressivism and women’s suffrage === | ||
* | * was advanced during progressive era | ||
** although it was not central to mainstream progressivism | |||
* it took WWI for the '''19th Amendment''' to pass to protect the right of women to vote (1920) | |||
=== | === Progressive Era legislation === | ||
* | * Constitutional amendments: | ||
** '''16th Amendment''', 1913: federal income tax | |||
** '''17th Amendment''', 1913: direct election of Senators (states previously selected Senators by vote in the legislature; by the time of this amendment, most states had already allowed for “direct” or “popular” election of Senators by the public | |||
** '''18th Amendment''', 1919: banned sale of alcohol | |||
** '''19th Amendment''', 1920: guaranteed right to vote for women | |||
* Laws/ Agencies: | |||
** Pure Food & Drug Act, 1906 (following publication of “The Jungle” exposing meat industry conditions) | |||
** Federal Trade Commission | |||
** Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 | |||
** Federal Reserve Act | |||
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