17: progressive era

• PROGRESSIVE ERA


  The time period after industrialization when things improved because of REFORMS
• PROGRESSIVE ERA


  Reforms- Improved working conditions, improved city conditions, less corruption, less power to big businesses
• PRESIDENT WILSON'S NEW FREEDOM


  Wilson's Progressive reforms: Progressive Income Tax and the Federal Reserve
• FEDERAL RESERVE


  Can protect the economy by controlling the money in circulation
• FEDERAL RESERVE


  Raises or lowers interest rates
• FEDERAL RESERVE


  Similar to Hamilton's national bank
• 16TH AMENDMENT


  Based on the ability to pay - the rich pay a higher percentage rate than the poor
• 16TH AMENDMENT


  Helps to lower the gap between the rich and poor - "the unequal distribution of wealth"
• 17TH AMENDMENT


  Direct election of Senators - instead of each state legislature picking the two Senators
• 17TH AMENDMENT


  Now directly voted on by the people of the state like House Representatives
• INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM


  Give citizens the opportunity to try to get their own laws voted on by the people
• INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM

  People adopt laws gives more direct democracy
• VOTING REFORM: RECALL


  People get the power to vote against a politician who has abused his power and remove him from office before end of elected term
• VOTING REFORM: RECALL

  Removing politicians before term over gives people more direct democracy
• NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (NAWSA)

  Organization for the right to vote for women
• NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (NAWSA)

  Led by Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt
• NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (NAWSA)

  Anthony was once arrested and put on trial for illegally voting in New York
• WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE (SUFFRAGE = THE RIGHT TO VOTE)


  Western states were the first to grant suffrage: Wyoming was the first, followed by Colorado and Idaho
• WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE (SUFFRAGE = THE RIGHT TO VOTE)


  Some "suffragettes" protested President Wilson at the White House where many were arrested
• WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE (SUFFRAGE = THE RIGHT TO VOTE)


  Women protested with parades, pickets at the White House, illegally voting, and hunger strikes while in jail
• WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE (SUFFRAGE = THE RIGHT TO VOTE)


  US participation in World War I helped get support for women suffrage
• WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE (SUFFRAGE = THE RIGHT TO VOTE)

  19th Amendment (1920) - gave women suffrage
• PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL (1919-1933)


  WCTU: Many women led the temperance movement against alcohol
• PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL (1919-1933)


  Temperance led to the 18th Amendment (1919) which banned alcohol
• PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL (1919-1933)


  Clash of cultural values: many broke the law so it was difficult and expensive to enforce
• PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL (1919-1933)


  Led to an increase in organized crime
• PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL (1919-1933)


  Congress repealed prohibition by the 21st Amendment (1933)