World Class Education

1890s-1920s 1 Topic 10

 Unregulated capitalism  Corruption in city, state, and federal governments  Poverty in American cities  Consumer protection  Environmental protection  Search for order in a changing America 2

 Economic Reform  Moral Reform  Political Reform 3

 Urban Middle Class Reformers  Journalists and Writers – “muckrakers”  Political Leaders  Farm and Labor Supporters 4

 Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones – Mayor of Toledo  Robert La Follette – Governor of Wisconsin  Hiram Johnson – Governor of California  Teddy Roosevelt – President of US ( )  Woodrow Wilson – President of US ( ) 5

Muckrakers  Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives  Ida Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company  Frank Norris, The Octopus  Lincoln Stevens, Shame of the Cities  Upton Sinclair, The Jungle  Thomas Nast, cartoonist Kindle Edition Image 6

 Secret Ballot  Initiative  Victorian Moral code  Referendum  Americanization of immigrants  Government ownership of utilities  End to child labor  Recall  Direct Primary  Prohibition  Pure Food and Drug Act  Meat Inspection Act  Federal Reserve Act  Sherman Anti-Trust Act  Clayton Anti-Trust Act  Amendments: 16 th,17 th,18 th,19 th  Woman suffrage Report on Child Labor in Mississippi,

Populist Movement Progressive Movement New Deal 8

 Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism,  Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform  Elisabeth Israels Perry and Karen Manners Smith, eds. The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion  Robert. Wiebe, The Search for Order,  The New York Tenement Museum website: 9