Chapter 19 And Chapter 20 The
Chapter 19 and Chapter 20: The Progressive Era (1890s – 1920s)
I. The Politics of the Status Quo
A. The National Scene, 1877-1893
1. The Civil Service Commission (1883)
2. Republicans v. Democrats
a. Tariffs
1) McKinley Tariff (1890)
B. Laissez-faire governmental policy
C. Urban Liberalism
D. Supremacy of the Courts
II. Politics and the People
A. Cultural Politics: Party, Religion, and Ethnicity
B. Organizational Politics
1. Political Machines
a. Mugwumps
C. Women’s Political Culture
III. Race and Politics in the New South
A. One-Party Rule Triumphant
1. Southern Democrats
2. Disfranchisement
3. Jim Crow laws
4. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
B. Resisting White Supremacy
IV. The Crisis of American Politics: The 1890s
A. The Populist Revolt
1. Economic depression
2. Beliefs of Populist Party
B. Money and Politics
1. Bimetallism, Greenbacks, Specie
2. Legislative acts
a. Bland-Allison Act, 1878
b. Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890
3. William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold
C. Election of 1896
V. The Course of Reform
A. The Progressive Mind
B. Muckrakers
1. Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company
2. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
3. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
4. Ray Stannard Baker
5. John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of Children
6. Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
7. Thomas Nast
C. Women Progressives
1. “social housekeepers”
2. Jane Addams, Hull House
3. Margaret Sanger
D. Reforming Politics
1. Robert LaFollette, Governor of Wisconsin
2. Political reforms
a. Direct Primary
b. Initiative
c. Referendum
d. Recall
3. The Triangle fire, Triangle Shirtwaist Company
E. Racism and Reform
1. Birth of a Nation
2. Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Niagara Movement
3. The NAACP, 1909
VI. Progressivism and National Politics
A. The Making of a Progressive President
1. Theodore Roosevelt
a. Conservation
b. Expansion of the power of the president
2. Regulating the Marketplace
a. Sherman Anti-trust Act, 1890
b. Interstate Commerce
I. The Politics of the Status Quo
A. The National Scene, 1877-1893
1. The Civil Service Commission (1883)
2. Republicans v. Democrats
a. Tariffs
1) McKinley Tariff (1890)
B. Laissez-faire governmental policy
C. Urban Liberalism
D. Supremacy of the Courts
II. Politics and the People
A. Cultural Politics: Party, Religion, and Ethnicity
B. Organizational Politics
1. Political Machines
a. Mugwumps
C. Women’s Political Culture
III. Race and Politics in the New South
A. One-Party Rule Triumphant
1. Southern Democrats
2. Disfranchisement
3. Jim Crow laws
4. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
B. Resisting White Supremacy
IV. The Crisis of American Politics: The 1890s
A. The Populist Revolt
1. Economic depression
2. Beliefs of Populist Party
B. Money and Politics
1. Bimetallism, Greenbacks, Specie
2. Legislative acts
a. Bland-Allison Act, 1878
b. Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890
3. William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold
C. Election of 1896
V. The Course of Reform
A. The Progressive Mind
B. Muckrakers
1. Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company
2. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
3. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
4. Ray Stannard Baker
5. John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of Children
6. Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
7. Thomas Nast
C. Women Progressives
1. “social housekeepers”
2. Jane Addams, Hull House
3. Margaret Sanger
D. Reforming Politics
1. Robert LaFollette, Governor of Wisconsin
2. Political reforms
a. Direct Primary
b. Initiative
c. Referendum
d. Recall
3. The Triangle fire, Triangle Shirtwaist Company
E. Racism and Reform
1. Birth of a Nation
2. Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Niagara Movement
3. The NAACP, 1909
VI. Progressivism and National Politics
A. The Making of a Progressive President
1. Theodore Roosevelt
a. Conservation
b. Expansion of the power of the president
2. Regulating the Marketplace
a. Sherman Anti-trust Act, 1890
b. Interstate Commerce