Surplus in land, labor, and products results in depressed economy
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| MAS 142 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Industrialization and the Progressive Era | |||||||||||||||||||
| Reading(s): Vigil Chapter 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| I. Democratization and the Progressive Era: 1870s to 1930s | |||||||||||||||||||
| A. Industrialization disrupts agrarian/land/labor-intensive-based society | |||||||||||||||||||
| Problem: Mechanization & Supply-Side Economics Surplus in land, labor, and products results in depressed economy |
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| Response: Cooperatives | |||||||||||||||||||
| Movements: Grangers +Populist=Progressives | |||||||||||||||||||
| Goals: Compulsion for reform | |||||||||||||||||||
| Graduated/Progressive Income Tax 16th Amendment (1913) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Popular election of Senators 17th Amendment (1913) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prohibition 18th Amendment (1919) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Women's Suffrage 19th Amendment (1920) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Non-Constitutional Reforms: Secret ballot, Innitiative, Petition, Referendum, Recall | |||||||||||||||||||
| B. In Search of New Ideas | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Capitalism 2. Socialism 3. Communism | |||||||||||||||||||