Progressive CFA

Expanding Democracy

A system of government in which the PEOPLE get to VOTE.
Goal: the government reflects the people's will

Democracy

Open Ended

What does is it mean to expand democracy for citizens?

(Less voting, more voting, less responsive government, government listens to you more, etc.?)

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Options (7)

referendum

recall

initative

Progressive Movement

government hacks your phone

government allows monopolies

Gilded Age

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More Democracy

Less Democracy

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17th Amendment​

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direct election of senators by popular vote

women suffrage

income tax

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19th Amendment​ ​

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direct election of senators by popular vote

income tax

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16th Amendment​​

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women suffrage

income tax

direct election of senators by popular vote

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Options (4)

19th Amendment

17th Amendment

16th Amendment

19th Amendment

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Political

Economic

Social

Multiple Choice

If the 16th amendment is about income tax, how can will know it is effect?

(*Think: what is the purpose of tax? Why does the government tax us?)

• raises revenue ($$)

• regulates financial investments

• limits personal inheritance

• expands business profits

the right of American citizens to participate in the political process REGARDLESS of their religion or beliefs

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Tolerance

Help EXPOSE (show) CORRUPTION (problems) in society through novels, photographs, essays, articles, etc.

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Muckrakers

allows federal government to regulate SHIPPING charges between states

​​Interstate Commerce Act

OUTLAWED the right of individual states to set railroad prices

​​Wabash v. Illinois

Multiple Choice

What was the effect of the 1886 Supreme Court decision in Wabash Railroad v. Illinois (1886)?

• It permitted railroads to raise passenger ticket prices.

• It upheld the right of the states to regulate intrastate railroad commerce.

• It upheld the right of the states to regulate intrastate railroad commerce.

• It outlawed the right of individual states to set railroad freight rates.

Multiple Choice

The Interstate Commerce Commission was created in 1887, to allow the federal government to —

• regulate railroad shipping charges between states

• build a national highway system between states

• settle land disputes between settlers and Native Americans

• extend services to rural regions

Main Ideas of Progressive Era

EXPANSION of individual democratic rights

MORE responsive government

MORE democratic

MORE voting rights

Multiple Choice

The Progressive Era reforms of initiative, referendum, and recall were designed to make state governments —

• more effecient

• less expensive

• less responsive

• more responsive