Honors American History Chapter 8 Honors American History Chapter 8

Wake Up America!

Roots of Progressivism Reaction to: Social Problems of Industrial Age Laissez-Faire Policies and Attitudes Who were the Progressives? What was their solution?

Motivating the Progressives A Belief System  The Social Gospel A Community Institution  The Settlement House A Social “Saint”  Jane Addams

Who helped to energize their cause? What were the muckrakers? Who were the most famous? What did the muckrakers hope to gain?

Mulberry Street Bend, 1889

5-Cent Lodgings

Men ’ s Lodgings

Women ’ s Lodgings

Immigrant Family Lodgings

Dumbbell Tenement Plan Tenement House Act of 1879, NYC

” Bandits ’ Roost ”

Mullen ’ s Alley ” Gang ”

The Street Was Their Playground

Lower East Side Immigrant Family

Another Struggling Immigrant Family

Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lived (1890)

Muckrakers Why was Jacob Riis important to the reform movement? What were the major social problems facing the urban poor?

Ida TarbellLincoln Steffens

What impact did this book have on the United States? What film in 2004 depicted the effects of a fast-food only diet on the human body?

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) Muckraking the Chicago meat-packing industry.

Results of The Jungle 1906 – Meat Inspection Act 1906 – Food and Drug Administration formed * Progressivism was a reaction to laissez-faire capitalism.*

Reforming Society Housing Reforms 1. Lillian Wald- 2. Tenement Act of Impact??? Fighting for Civil Rights 1. NAACP- 2. ADL-

Settlement Houses What was their purpose? What was the Hull House? Who founded it? Who started the settlement house in NY? In Richmond? How did the social gospel idea influence the rise of settlement houses?

Hull House

Urban Reforms ProblemReform Poor Living Conditions New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 Expensive UtilitiesGovernment Regulation Rampant DiseaseGarbage Collection, Sewer Systems

Child Labor

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Asch Building, 8 th and 10 th Floors

Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

Inside the Building After the Fire

Crumpled Fire Escape, 26 Died

Dead Bodies on the Sidewalk

Rose Schneiderman The Last Survivor Quote in text.

Scene at the Morgue

Labor Unions March as Mourners

Out of the Ashes ÔILGWU membership surged. ÔNYC created a Bureau of Fire Prevention. ÔNew strict building codes were passed. ÔTougher fire inspection of sweatshops.(NY passes toughest fire-safety laws in the nation.) ÔGrowing momentum of support for women’s suffrage.

Workplace Reforms ProblemReform Children are abused in factory labor Florence Kelley  National Child Labor Committee Cycle of PovertyPublic Education (High Schools) Long Working Hours for Low Pay 10-Hour Workday and Minimum Wage Law Industrial AccidentsWorkers’ Compensation Laws

Reforming Government City Government Reforms 1. Reform Mayors- 2. commission form of government- 3. council manager- State Government Reforms 1. Robert La Follette- 2. Charles Evans Hughes- Election Reforms –What are they?

Government Reforms Initiative Referendum Recall 17 th Amendment

Government Reforms ReformDescription Secret BallotPeople vote privately, without fear of coercion Direct PrimaryPeople choose candidates InitiativeCitizens can propose law ReferendumCitizens can reject laws RecallCitizens can remove public officials 17 th AmendmentDirect election of Senators

Women Make Progress 8.2 Colleges Leaders in social reform Had little rights

Reforming The Workplace Florence Kelley – Minimum Wage- Courts and Labor Laws 1.Lochner v. NY 2. Muller v. Oregon 3. Bunting v. Oregon

18th Amendment

Susan B. Anthony

Women Gain the Vote NAWSA –What approach to suffrage? –How did the goals of the NWP differ from the NAWSA? –How did Carrie Chapman Catt change the NAWSA? –What was the result of the movement?