DBQ+Essay+4

DBQ 4 Progesssive Outline historical content: from 1874-1901, historians defined this time as the gilded age, a time of political standstill and social quadulation. (ps... quadulation is like the time before a scab forms. thanks for the word taylor) Thesis: The progressive era was very successful in bringing about reforms in the economy and politics to the national level, with a few limitations.

Topic Sentence (successes) : Regualtion of business, consumer protection, Politics, women's rights - voting Topic Sentence ( Limitations) : child labor and Civil rights

Did not take sides on business or labor
 * Task || Outside infromation || Doc. ||  ||
 * Regulation of business || **square deal**

enforce sherman antitrust Act Went after Northern Securities company trust of railroads Standard Oil and 40 other
 * Trust Busting**

Elkins act - ICC had greater authority to stop railroads from giving rebates to favored customers Hepburn act - "Just and reasonable" rates for railroads || Doc. A || Theodore Roosevelt said he would only stop bad trusts || Upton Sinclairs The Jungle Pure Food and drug act Meat inspection act || Doc. B || Muckraking book about conditions of meatpacking industry. || Unions can not be broken up as trusts || Doc. E || Clayton Antitrust ||
 * Railroad regulation**
 * Regulation of business || **Consumer protection**
 * Regulation of business || Strengthen Sherman anti trust
 * Polical || 17th Amendment || Doc. D || Roosevelt supported direct election of Senators. ||
 * Political || Australian, or secret ballot

Decline of machine politics || Doc. J || Percent of voters go down ||
 * women's rights || after WWI men were drafted so women went into the workforce

Carrie chapman catt Alice paul - mass pickets, parades, hunger strikes 19 th Amendment || Doc. H || argues that "Kaiser" wilson cared more about Germans than the women of his own country. ||
 * child labor || Mother Jones - "Children Crusade"

Lewis Hines - " Muckraker" Took photo stories of child labor to inform the public of bad conditions that children worked in.

Child labor act - Prohibit shipment in interstate commerce of products manufactured by children under 14 years old. || Doc. C || Jane Addams and other settlement house workers don't want Child labor || Du bois - political ad social Difference between 2 limited success of Civil rights
 * child labor || Found Child labor act unconstitutional || Doc. G || Hammer v. Dagenhart ||
 * Civil Rights || Booker T. Washington wanted Economic stability.

400000 African American - were segregated || Doc. I || Du Bois argues that blacks went into war for their county, but don't have political and social freedom || Underwood tariff - reduce tariff, and puts graduated income tax Federal reserve act - 12 district bank supervised by Federal reserve board. Dollar bills Clayton Antitrust Federal trade commission - take action against unfair practices
 * || **Wilson's New Freedom**

Federal Farm loan Act - 12 regional federal farm loan banks, provide farm loans at low interest || Doc. F || Herbert Croly critizises Wilson's New freedom ||