Do Now Get a textbook from the self and return to your assigned seat In your notebook, answer this question 1-2 paragraphs You have 10 to 15 minutes What areas of public life do you believe need to be reformed? I’ll be around to see who is working

CHAPTER 15 SECTION 1 The Roots of Progressivism

Progressive Era A time when many Americans tried to improve their Society Tried to make Government honest, efficient, and more democratic Also see Women's suffrage Limit child labor Reduce alcohol abuse

Progressivism A collection of different ideas and activates Not a tightly organized political movement with specific reforms It was a serious of responses to problems in American society that emerged from the growth of industry After seeing the poverty of the working class and filth and crime of urban society, reformers began to doubt the laissez-faire and unregulated economy

Progressives Mostly educated, urban, middle-class Americans Many belonged to major political parties Among their leadership were journalist, social workers, educators, politicians, and members of clergy Most agreed that government should take a more active role in solving societies problems

Progressivism They felt that the government needed to be fixed before it could fix societies problems Progressives thought they could improve society with their strong faith in science and technology Some new inventions of the time are? Progressives believed using scientific principles could produce solutions for societies problems

Muckrakers Among the first to publicize these ideas were a group of crusading journalist These Journalist investigated social conditions and political corruption Muckrakers Theodore Roosevelt nicknamed these writers Muckrakers, referred to character who single- mindedly scraped up filth off the ground, ignoring everyone else. Obsessed with scandal and corruption they spread their ideas thru cheap newspapers and magazines

In Pairs pg make sure you know the highlighted people and vocab. Muckrakers Jacob RiisWho are the muckrakers (making Gov’t efficient) muckrakers & prohibition Who are the muckrakers (Suffrage) Who are the muckrakers (Child Labor) (Health and Safety Codes) Wrote, “How the other half lives” published photos & descriptions of poverty, disease & crime that afflicted immigrant neighborhoods

Muckraker and Gov’t Fredrick W. Taylor Wrote book “The Principles of Scientific Management” Focused on making gov’t more efficient by using ideas from business Robert M. La Follette: attacked the way political parties ran their conventions. Pressured legislatures to pass laws that required parties to hold Direct primary, all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election Progressives also pushed for three additional reforms: 1. Initiative: permits a group of citizens to introduce legislation & required the legislature to vote on it 2. Referendum: allowed citizens to vote on proposed laws directly without going to legislature 3. Recall: allows voters the option to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before term is up.

Muckrakers in suffrage Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B Anthony: Founders of National Women Suffrage Association Focused on passing a constitutional amendment Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe: Founders American Woman Suffrage Association Focused on convincing state gov’t to give women the right to vote Alice Paul, Quaker social worker, headed the NAWSA’s congressional committee, organized marches and later formed National Women's Party, picketed white house, blocked sidewalks chained to lamppost and went on hunger strikes Carrie Chapman Catt: NAWSA’s new leader, she really pushed politically, getting people elected and other not elected after the amendment failed she used NAWSA’S resources to defeat two ant suffrage senators

Muckrakers Child Labor and Health and Safety Codes John Spargo: Wrote Book The Bitter Cry of the Children, It presented detailed evidence of child labor conditions. It convinced states to pass laws that set a minimum age for employment and establish other limits on child labor like max hours kids could work Progressives and union leaders worked to get workers compensation laws and insurance funds

Muckrakers and Prohibition Temperance movement arose to deal with the ills of alcoholism Temperance movement mostly led by women, The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 250,000 members, Anti-Saloon league, formed by Protestant ministers, both concentrated on reducing alcohol consumption, later it pushed for prohibition which is the banning, manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol