Essential Question: How did the backgrounds of Mother Jones, John Muir and Ida Tarbell lead to their work as Progressive Era reformers and to what extent were their efforts successful? Use examples from the video to support your answer. Bell Ringer Activities: 25 Minutes 1.Answer the USA Test Prep (you may write on the sheet) 2.Complete your Essential Question from the video yesterday. If you were absent yesterday, you will need to attend Smart Lunch to make up this assignment 3.Take a vocabulary sheet from the plastic box up front. 4.Turn in EQ when complete.

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Chapter 13 “When I say I believe in a square deal I do not mean…to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he had not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.” Theodore Roosevelt, 1905

WHAT IS PROGRESSIVISM? A time period when people in America began to favor progress toward better conditions in government and society. How was Progressivism in conflict with the idea of “individualism” of the Gilded Age? While reformers came from all classes and walks of life, what social class was mainly responsible for this social movement?

PROGRESSIVE ROOTS REORMISTS ROOTS WENT BACK TO LABOR PARTY AND POPULIST PARTY Opposition to “LAISSEZ- FAIRE” SOCIALISTS PROTESTANTS FEMINISTS

MUCKRAKERS Exposing of evil became a flourishing industry Lincoln Steffens “The Shame of the Cities” Ida Tarbell “The History of Standard Oil Co.” Upton Sinclair “The Jungle” Wrote about social evils as well Abuses of child labor Disenfranchisement of blacks

UPTON SINCLAIR THE JUNGLE MEAT INSPECTION ACT PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT

“POWER TO THE PEOPLE” DIRECT PRIMARY INITIATIVE REFERENDUM RECALL DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Reforming Local Government Lincoln Steffens exposes graft and fraud in local governments Commissioner plan City Manager plan Robert La Follette targets the Railroad industry State officials could no longer ride the railroad for free Began regulating rates charged to customer

PROGRESSIVE WOMEN Settlement houses Female activists Susan B. Anthony Carrie A. Nation Triangle Shirtwaist Company Women Christian Temperance Union

Pursuit of Pleasure Baseball Vaudeville Ragtime Jazz Silent Movies Freud, birth control, attention to prostitution all made sexuality more open

Make the Workplace More Efficient Henry Ford pioneers the assembly line in factories Workers paid $5 a day 8 hour work week Workers were like machines MODEL T!

Roosevelt’s “SQUARE DEAL” for Labor Program embraced the three “C’s” Control of the corporations Consumer protection Conservation of natural resources (created national parks)

Election of 1912 Ballot

Election Results: What’s going on here!?

Republicans Divided by Bull Moose = Democratic Victory!