Roots of the Progressive Movement Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Progressive Era Roots of the Progressive Movement The Social Gospel Socialism Muckrakers Famous Muckrakers Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Frank Norris Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle This book portrayed the new industrial economy as inhumane, destructive, and uncaring. One scene in the book described piles of rat-infested, rotting meat being used to make sausages: “[T]he meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage.” How might a reader in 1906 have reacted to this passage?

Roots of the Progressive Movement Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Progressive Era Roots of the Progressive Movement The Social Gospel Socialism Muckrakers Famous Muckrakers Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Frank Norris Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle This book portrayed the new industrial economy as inhumane, destructive, and uncaring. One scene in the book described piles of rat-infested, rotting meat being used to make sausages: “[T]he meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage.” How might a reader in 1906 have reacted to this passage?

Direct Party Primaries Direct Election of Senators Social Reformers W.E.B Dubois Booker T. Washington Secret Ballot Initiative Referendum Recall Direct Party Primaries Direct Election of Senators Progressive Political Reforms Civil Service Reform In 1889, six years after the Pendleton Act was passed, Theodore Roosevelt gave this speech on The Duties of American Citizenship: “Government jobs belong to the American people, not politicians, and should be filled only with regard to public service. Against nothing is fearless and specific criticism more urgently needed than against the ‘spoils system,’ which is the [disgrace] of American politics. What more irrelevant question could there be than that of the politician who asks a job seeker for his political favor, ‘Who did you vote for in the last election?’ Certainly reform is needed when you think of he New York City treasurer who acknowledges his annual fees to be $85,000, and who pays a deputy $1,500 to do his work. Note the corruption in the New York legislature, where one man says you should never allow the Constitution to come between friends!” Pendleton Act (1883) Why did Roosevelt feel it was inappropriate to ask a job-seeker whom he or she had voted for? Why did Roosevelt think civil service reform would help eliminate corruption?

Direct Party Primaries Direct Election of Senators Social Reformers W.E.B Dubois Booker T. Washington Secret Ballot Initiative Referendum Recall Direct Party Primaries Direct Election of Senators Progressive Political Reforms Civil Service Reform In 1889, six years after the Pendleton Act was passed, Theodore Roosevelt gave this speech on The Duties of American Citizenship: “Government jobs belong to the American people, not politicians, and should be filled only with regard to public service. Against nothing is fearless and specific criticism more urgently needed than against the ‘spoils system,’ which is the [disgrace] of American politics. What more irrelevant question could there be than that of the politician who asks a job seeker for his political favor, ‘Who did you vote for in the last election?’ Certainly reform is needed when you think of he New York City treasurer who acknowledges his annual fees to be $85,000, and who pays a deputy $1,500 to do his work. Note the corruption in the New York legislature, where one man says you should never allow the Constitution to come between friends!” Pendleton Act (1883) Why did Roosevelt feel it was inappropriate to ask a job-seeker whom he or she had voted for? Why did Roosevelt think civil service reform would help eliminate corruption?