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as the 20th century Dawn and big business room many had come to call the previous what year is the Gilded Age Goofy's family wake the carnegies Vanderbilts and Rockefellers enjoy the fruits of big business and the fruits of others labor but for most Americans it was far from a Gilded Age as they incurred the harsh realities print shop loans child labor corruption government business disease and racial prejudice  As Americans ushered in a new century they began to men's equality reform and look for aggressive era was born the roots of the Progressive Era reforms began Mini where is earlier presidents from federal politicians voltage or the spoil system from an old war slogan following the Civil War and reconstruction the American I'm disgusted with government corruption and favoritism some members of the Republican Party they were influential Republicans who refuse to support their party's presidential candidate who they believe oppose reform  what the assassination President James Garfield in 1881 by Charles could tell who he had refused to hire for a government position the outcry for an end to pain reach the crescendo federal workers would now be hired based on competitive exams rather than political influence oceans were expected to almost all government jobs the Muslim concept of an honest government based on Merit laid the groundwork for Progressive tested two other political groups of populists and the Socialists  after the Civil War many Americans turn to or begin farming but over the next decade there was an overproduction of farm Goods with more supplies and demand prices plummet lower and lower at the same time the cost of fertilizer and railroad transportation loan money to support their families I still pay their death to bankers and organized political parties populist party emerged as the most powerful the populists supported an income tax based on earnings to support the government rather terrorist in charge to Farmers and businesses they demanded as shorter work day government loans to Farmers the direct election of state senators secret ballot election reforms but Republican William McKinley defeated the popular supported presidential candidates thanks Brian 1896 and the populist party if not its causes faded by 1900 another political movement emerged demanding even more radical change and M2 capitalism itself  Eugene Reed just was one of the founders of political force the Socialist socialist don't that the Industrial Age and its capital was responsible for the wide disparity between rich and poor of America dibs is proposed solution is to eliminate private ownership Vinny middle-upper class Americans disagree with the Socialist they to Big Business was out of control Pan American workers were being taken advantage of these progressions don't they could improve capitalism by making government more responsive social inequities progressives wanted to reform government and business ensuring decent working conditions and wages and fair government the progressive gained momentum and followers As Americans writers and journalists place with many working-class Americans these writers became popularly known as muckrakers from a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress wake up the mud and muck of the world author Upton Sinclair shocked the nation with his graphic description of the building working condition in Chicago meat packing plant Ida Tarbell describe the Cutthroat tactics used to eliminate competition by big businesses like Standard Oil Jacob Riis and immigrant himself with a first-hand account of life in the slums while Lincoln steffens considered the leader of the muckraking expose the corruption so rampant in city government  As Americans read these muckraking books magazine articles became not only where are the country's problems they demanded and support reforms in both and government a major reform governor scam La Follette of Wisconsin to help him improve his government my goal is not Mass Corporation but to drive them out of politics meanwhile on the local level new forms of city government of marriage Hideaway devastated the city of Galveston Texas a five-member commission was set up to rebuild the city rather than politicians this Commission system of government proved so successful 14 years from for hubby cities Council measure form of government residents elected city council and the council manager usually a professional public administrator who run the city's various departments systems help to eliminate corruption and local government reforms move what word other Progressive Governors is Charles Evans Hughes of New York and Hiram Johnson of California we're joined by ordinary citizens like fast forward of Oregon with his urging Oregon adopted for election reform official ballot and vote in a private booth the initiative giving voters the right to put issues on a ballot for a vote the week all which Greta voter is the right to remove an elected official and perhaps most importantly the direct Primary in which voters choose candidates for rather than political party leaders the direct primary directly elect their States senators many of the demands of the earlier populist movement or finally coming to fruition as state and local which became more responsive to Citizens and trying to eliminate the influence of big business  the growth of large business is merely survival of the fittest although progressives wanted to preserve capitalism they fear that the concentration of huge wealth and power in the hands of a few industrialists like Rockefeller dangerous proof they side of the millions of men women and children who labor for low pay and one in hazardous working conditions progressives advocated government regulation of business at overtime laws protecting workers and working conditions were adopted still I took until the late 1930s before The Supreme Court decided that a federal minimum wage was constitutional a turning point in a war what's the point of working Americans occurred in 1911 a tragic fire in a New York City garment Factory left 126 young immigrant worker track behind locked doors at their sewing machines many of the women jump to their deaths or were burned beyond recognition the Triangle Shirtwaist company indicted for manslaughter new laws workers other progressives felt that the problems of the country demanded moral not legislative Solutions believing that the drinking of alcohol with you more crime and poverty organizations like the women's Christian Temperance Union demanded and received a constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale. in the United States  Progressive Jean Adams took a slightly different view she co-founded a settlement house in the slums of Chicago Grassroots approach to solving neighborhood problems whole house and other settlement houses English obtain medical help and learn to solve their own problems other Progressive women concentrated on another moral issue one that had plagued the nation since the the days following the Civil War suffrage the right for women to vote 1912 along 5th Avenue from Washington Square 257 we're gathered thousands of men and women of New York women dancers lawyers Architects artists actresses sculptures waitresses domestic and industrial workers all marched with an intensity and purpose that astonished The Crow set mind Street  founded in 1890 the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association used 3 different which is to try to win the vote for women first they attempted to get state governments to Grantham suffrage but only Wyoming Utah Colorado and I agreed suffragettes then decided to take their cross to court the 14th Amendment which them right there male citizens the right to vote would lose congressional representation states must allow them to vote so Susan B Anthony and other women in different states forcing the Supreme Court to decide their case but despite the fact the Supreme Court in 1875 of women They concluded that citizenship alone did not automatically grant women the right to vote  their third approach was to Rally support for a Constitutional Amendment granting suffrage time and again the Senate defeated the suffrage campaign March time and with a is entry into World War 1 in 1917 leaders of the women's movement  Susan B Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt continue this approach some more radical organization the national woman's party which openly blamed Democrats have used protest marches and even hungry strike to try to win finally in 1919 Congress approve the 19th Amendment and the following the long battle for suffrage and taken 72 years I'm a national political landscape for time seemed right for Progressive United States president and one if only by a twist of fate six months after being elected president for the second time Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him in 1901 he was the youngest person ever to hold that office  Roosevelt was born into a wolf I don't know he's suffering from asthma he was determined to live an active life from Marksmanship to horseback riding and Tennis to boxing and hunting to his heroic exploits with the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War Teddy Roosevelt proved as governor of New York and then as president when asked why people who adore him he said he thought it was because I put into words what is in their hearts and minds but not there house Roosevelt outline many Progressive reforms to the American public and gave his plan a the square deal when Rusev office mover 80% of American Business is owned by trusts all the Sherman Antitrust Act trust from using unfair business practices to destroy in 1904 the Supreme Court agreed 3% of the beef industry Standard Oil the American Tobacco Company and many other Trust  the Americans who won the return Roosevelt to the presidency in 1904 the many other progressives who were serving in local state and federal governments Roosevelt to get the support he needed to get his proposed law black mayor of Toledo Ohio governor of North Carolina and fighting Bob La Follette of Wisconsin both of whom became United States senators  2 years after his reelection Roosevelt song become law which games are federal Interstate Commerce Commission the power to regulate the maximum fees real rose can charge Roosevelt mixture ancient the question surrounding Public Health American horrified when he read Upton Sinclair's the jungle and even consider becoming a the appointed a commission to investigate Sinclair's Clans a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried rat these rats are nuisances and the Packers would put poison bread out for them they would die and then rat bread and meat would go in The Hoppers adder  Sinclair's charges of unsanitary conditions proved to be true the commission confirm his description of prodded him as a containing round rope and pick skin cell in 1906 Roosevelt's are urging Congress adopted the Meat Inspection Act would now guarantee safe Cemetery me can you send to list the contents of food labels serious drug chemical or preservatives could be used in medicine before Roosevelt rough the same enthusiasm to protecting America's natural leveling the business Plainfield after graduating from Harvard University what is he quickly realized it when it says were allowing channel do over Great Plains farmers done with America's natural resources what will happen when our forests are gone when the call the iron the oil and the gas doctor  has President Roosevelt withdrew 148 million Acres of forest land from public sale and area laundry Germany on the advice of his friend naturalist John Muir Roosevelt established over 5105 Sanctuary National Park and designated national monuments do you also put fellow conservationist Gifford Pinchot in charge of supervising the national for the nation with obsessed by Fury of development the American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of the richest of all countenance  Roosevelt we still determined that Americans realize that the country's resources were not anybody even been Christmas trees White House  Theodore Roosevelt's ignored tradition and redefine the image and scope of the president of the United States visible and accessible was the people showing throughout America and in turn America allowed him to use when he called his hope it to accomplish his goals or reform regulation going to President Roosevelt instead picked his successor William Howard Taft really won the presidency in 1908  turn off shared Roosevelt's Progressive beliefs is overwhelming popularity what the public-at-large the Third Party candidate socialist Eugene Debs received almost a million votes for president when did a great many Americans wanted more where he was physically large 6 feet tall and 350 pounds was a distinguished lawyer in judge but timid and uncomfortable as a politician when he lost the election to Woodrow Wilson and 19 he returned to his real love the law and became the only president to have been chosen as a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court what's the loneliest place in the world  I don't remember that I ever was president trance one-term is predator political wrangling within his own party distracted The public's attention actually broke up more than twice Telegraph companies and Congress to pass the 16th Amendment to the Constitution year after he left office still he was failing to continue Roosevelt's reform they were outraged when cats signed the Payne Aldrich tariff raising prices on imported goods and in winter fired Gifford Pinchot when Theodore Roosevelt return to America from overseas in 1910 he was welcome the public in the Seeker third term as president and two years later we did however the Republican Party refuse to seat Roosevelt don't get stood convention results on the first ballot. in political party athlete named the Progressive Party after Roosevelt posted on a strong as a bull moose and ready for play the Progressive Party then became known as The Bull Moose Party  former friends and party members political enemies Taft and Roosevelt battle each other for boats guinea pig meanwhile the democratic reform Governor presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson to American voters and wisely steered clear of the bickering between Roosevelt and Taft  don't interfere when your enemy is destroying itself with the Republican party votes split between Taft and Roosevelt one of the Electoral College votes and became mission trip to work with he convinced the Senate to pass the Underwood Simmons tariff which were the first time since the Civil War reduced tariff rates next Supernatural reform by establishing a private banking system under Federal control to make credit more available throughout the country and quickly adjust the amount of the Federal Reserve System was one of the greatest are Wilson helped establish the Federal Trade Commission and signed into law the Clayton Antitrust Act both the commission and the act weird stopping unfair practices despite his Arrow record of accomplishments and his support of suffrage for women Roosevelt and Taft did little to improve African Americans civil rights for it was his 7 Operating that influenced his decision to appoint segregation as the heads of federal agencies segregation expanded in the military and the practice return to the capital and federal Offices in Washington DC that had been desegregated three reconstruction I have made no promises particular to Negroes except to do them Justice Jane Addams and others in founding the n-double-acp the National Association for the advancement of colored people in 1910 the end lacp had supported Wilson's bid for the presidency and now the African Americans and their white supporters felt Wilson had betrayed their trust as editor of the Memphis free speech Ida wells-barnett head let a campaign to protect the lynching of African Americans in the United States this make the fact that between 1892 and 1903 some 3,000 African Americans were killed Wilson failed to support Federal anti Lynch legislation have you a new freedom for white Americans and the new slavery for your Afro-American fellow-citizens God forbid  there were success and scope of progressivism as evidence by Wilson civil rights the American public I believe any problem could be solved was growing in America and by 1914 the first world war had broken out in Europe Woodrow Wilson was reelected in change 16 panel though his campaign slogan was he kept us out of War America inevitably became involved turn up the nation from the qualities of the Progressive Era alarm at 9:30 a.m.

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