Summary: From Roosevelt To Wilson In The Age Of Progressivism
Chapter 23
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
The Republicans Split The Republicans were disappointed in Taft, the predecessor of Roosevelt. The conservative and progressive sides of the Republican Party split. Taft could not keep up with Theodore Roosevelt’s policies. The election of 1912 was going to be a very exciting election with Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson running. People were wondering about the evolution of social and economic effects on countryside industrial growth. The Spirit of Progressivism Progressivism changed all of America. New types of art came about. Progressives wanted to regulate big business not to harm it. Many were also a combination of evangelical Protestantism and natural/social sciences. …show more content…
Pushed for better wages and better working conditions. African American Women formed their own organization. Carrie Chapman Catt became president of the Nation American Women’s Suffrage Association. Supported clean government and temperance. 19th amendment stated you couldn’t deny someone the right to vote because of sex. National Child Labor Committee, 28 states had laws regulating child labor. Woodrow Wilson backed to limit Child Labor with the Keating-Owen Act. Hammer v. Dagenhart overturned it as an improper regulation of local labor. Congress tried again, Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company again they failed. A Ferment of Ideas: Challenging the Status Quo Pragmatism, a new doctrine, Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice. Brandies Brief in the case of Muller v. Oregon Supreme Court established protections for working women, it limited a 10 hour work day. Brandies Brief was based largely on sociological data rather than legal evidence. Expanding legal evidence. Socialism grew dramatically before World War 1. Even Social Democrat Party. Reform in the Cities and States Progressive reformers needed government to be more accomplished. Use of Federal power increased. Interest Groups and the Decline of Popular Politics Voters …show more content…
People were alarmed. The Meat Inspection Act of 1906, set rules for sanitary meatpacking and government inspection of meat products. Pure Food and Drug Act, articles had been shown that patent medicines were mostly alcohol, requiring that manufacturers to list certain ingredients on the label. Converting the Land Conservation was an accomplishment for Roosevelt. He felt we should have wise use of natural resources. Creating the Reclamation Service helping the Department of Agriculture. Roosevelt was ready to turn the White House over to Taft. The Ordeal of William Howard Taft The progressive Republicans nominated Taft as president but the conservative had James S. Sherman for vice president. Taft felt like he didn’t belong. He didn’t like politics. He was fat and lazy. Taft distrusted change. Conservative? He faced some troublesome problems. Party Insurgency Taft tried to curb the speaker of the house, Cannon, which looked like a successful but turned out just the opposite. Cannon finally helped him get tariff cuts. Republicans divided over tariff. They revised a bill called the Payne-Aldrich Act. The Ballinger-Pinchot
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
The Republicans Split The Republicans were disappointed in Taft, the predecessor of Roosevelt. The conservative and progressive sides of the Republican Party split. Taft could not keep up with Theodore Roosevelt’s policies. The election of 1912 was going to be a very exciting election with Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson running. People were wondering about the evolution of social and economic effects on countryside industrial growth. The Spirit of Progressivism Progressivism changed all of America. New types of art came about. Progressives wanted to regulate big business not to harm it. Many were also a combination of evangelical Protestantism and natural/social sciences. …show more content…
Pushed for better wages and better working conditions. African American Women formed their own organization. Carrie Chapman Catt became president of the Nation American Women’s Suffrage Association. Supported clean government and temperance. 19th amendment stated you couldn’t deny someone the right to vote because of sex. National Child Labor Committee, 28 states had laws regulating child labor. Woodrow Wilson backed to limit Child Labor with the Keating-Owen Act. Hammer v. Dagenhart overturned it as an improper regulation of local labor. Congress tried again, Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company again they failed. A Ferment of Ideas: Challenging the Status Quo Pragmatism, a new doctrine, Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice. Brandies Brief in the case of Muller v. Oregon Supreme Court established protections for working women, it limited a 10 hour work day. Brandies Brief was based largely on sociological data rather than legal evidence. Expanding legal evidence. Socialism grew dramatically before World War 1. Even Social Democrat Party. Reform in the Cities and States Progressive reformers needed government to be more accomplished. Use of Federal power increased. Interest Groups and the Decline of Popular Politics Voters …show more content…
People were alarmed. The Meat Inspection Act of 1906, set rules for sanitary meatpacking and government inspection of meat products. Pure Food and Drug Act, articles had been shown that patent medicines were mostly alcohol, requiring that manufacturers to list certain ingredients on the label. Converting the Land Conservation was an accomplishment for Roosevelt. He felt we should have wise use of natural resources. Creating the Reclamation Service helping the Department of Agriculture. Roosevelt was ready to turn the White House over to Taft. The Ordeal of William Howard Taft The progressive Republicans nominated Taft as president but the conservative had James S. Sherman for vice president. Taft felt like he didn’t belong. He didn’t like politics. He was fat and lazy. Taft distrusted change. Conservative? He faced some troublesome problems. Party Insurgency Taft tried to curb the speaker of the house, Cannon, which looked like a successful but turned out just the opposite. Cannon finally helped him get tariff cuts. Republicans divided over tariff. They revised a bill called the Payne-Aldrich Act. The Ballinger-Pinchot