MUCKRAKERS

• Began around 1902
• McClure's- The Shame of the Cities
• David Phillips- The Treason of the Senate

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• Slums
• Child labor
• Racism
• Alcohol

POLITICAL PROGRESSIVISM

• Regain power of the people
• 17th Amendment
• Direct election of senators

IN CITIES AND STATES

• City managers
• Fought slumlords and red light
• Robert LaFollette

WOMEN

• Settlement Houses
• Women's Trade Union League
• Factory Reform and Temperance
• 1911- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• Women's Christian Temperance Movement

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

• Square Deal- capital, labor, public
• Control corporations
• Consumer protection
• Conservation
• Pennsylvania Strike

TR &CORPS.

• Northern Securities Company
• Trust buster?
• Government over business

CONSERVATION

• Forest Reserve Act- 1891
• Newlands Act- 1902
• Call of the Wild, Boy Scouts
• Hetch Hetchy Valley

TAFT

• Succeeded Roosevelt- 1908
• Smart, but lacked diplomacy
• Dollar diplomacy
• Standard Oil and U.S. Steel

TAFT VS. ROOSEVELT

• Payne- Aldrich Bill
• Ballinger- Pinchot Affair
• Republican Convention

ELECTION OF 1912

• Wilson (d) - Taft (r)- Roosevelt (p)
• New Nation v. New Freedom
• Wilson is the victor

WILSON PROGRESSIVISM

• Triple wall of privilege
• Tariffs, banks, trusts
• Underwood Tariff Bill
• Federal Reserve Act-1913

FOREIGN POLICY

• Jones Act 1916
• Japan 1913
• Haiti- 1915-1916
• Virgin Islands- 1917
• Mexico

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