{ Progressivism

 What is progress?  What does it mean to be progressive?  What must exist for progress to be possible? Defining the Concept

 Muckraking became the journalistic practice of exposing social problems.  McClure’s Magazine became the preeminent magazine for muckraking.  Ida Tarbell & Lincoln Steffens both wrote for McClure’s. The Birth of Muckraking

 Most well known for her exposure of Standard Oil’s unscrupulous business practices.  The History of Standard Oil 1904 Ida Tarbell  Read Ida Tarbell’s “The Business of Being Woman”  Complete the Historical Thinking Questions  Discuss them first with a partner & then share out as a whole class

 We’ll HAP-P some of his most well known images… Jacob Riis  A Danish immigrant got his first real work in journalism with the NY Tribune.  Published an article and accompanying images as “How the Other Half Lives” in  Would extend this article into the book published in (THIS IS THE EDGE OF THE PERIOD)

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 Most well known for his uncovering of political corruption and machine politics.  The Shame of Cities & The Struggle for Self Government.  Read the Excerpt from the Shame of Cities  Complete the Historical Thinking Questions  Discuss them first with a partner & then share out as a whole class Lincoln Steffens

 Worked for McClure’s Magazine in the early 1900s.  Dissatisfied with McClure’s, and the label of “muckraker”, he left to found The American Magazine in 1907 with Steffens, Tarbell,  Began focusing a lot of his attention on race and published Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy in   The first prominent journalist to examine America's racial divide; it was extremely successful Ray Stannard Baker

 We can come back to The Jungle later… Upton Sinclair  An idealist that began writing at 15 and attacked…  Yellow Journalism : The Brass Check  Political Scandal & Greed: Oil!  Food and Work Safety: The Jungle  Read the Excerpt from the The Jungle  Complete the Historical Thinking Questions  Discuss them first with a partner & then share out as a whole class

 Evaluate the extent to which domestic problems maintained continuity while fostering change from the Progressive era to the New Deal. What is the task…  What do you need to answer this question?  IDENTIFY THE PROBLEMS Exposed during the Progressive Era!

ReformerProblem Addressed Ida Tarbell Jacob Riis Lincoln Steffens Ray Stannard Baker Upton Sinclair What problems were presented in our documents?

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What about Context?

 News Sources  Books  Magazines  Blogs & Websites  Documentaries Muckraking Today

 According to Sinclair, how was rancid meat made to look like it was “Grade A?”  How did the company “smoke” meat?  What went in to sausages?  How was meat stored? What were the problems with storing meat in this way?  How did these conditions affect the workers?  Any work? It’s a 475 pg novel full of examples. THE JUNGLE

The Modern Jungle?