Progressive Mini-Q US History

DO NOT COPY Topic: Progressive Reform DBQ Objective: Students will be able to analyze primary and secondary sources to write a 5-paragraph DBQ essay DO NOW: Take out your Document Analysis packet HW: (1) Study for the Midterm on Wednesday, Jan. 27 th (2) Current Events online forum (3) Historical Context and claim for Progressive reform DBQ for Monday– Rough draft due Monday, Feb. 1 st (4) Signed MCAS Contract due Tuesday, Jan. 26 th

Deforestation was a major problem in America due to Industrialization and the growth of the country. Document A

Document A: Conservation Reform : Preserved over 151 million acres of land T. Roosevelt to set up Yosemite Nat’l Park 1905 Why? “our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children’s children…” Chapter 9, Sect. 2 for reforms

Document B: Child Labor: Lewis Hine Hired by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC – est. 1914) to investigate & photograph the plight of America’s working children Photography helped pass legislation throughout the country. State by state the NCLC passed laws restricting child labor. – Chapter 8, Section 2 for reforms

Document C

Jane Addams Not generally regarded as a suffragist Interested in social reform Realized women’s vote was necessary to win support for reforms in education, tenement (renter) safety and food inspection

Document C: Women’s Suffrage Movement began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 WY first state to grant full suffrage for women By 1908, 27 states granted women some voting rights (no vote for President or Congress) Reform: 19 th Amendment  Chapter 9, Sect. 4

Document D: The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

Document D: Food Safety: Upton Sinclair Life-long socialist The Jungle was Sinclair’s 1 st literary success People sent T. Roosevelt angry letters demanding meat-packing industry be more closely regulated Reform: Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress in 1906  Chapter 9, Sect. 2

Document E: How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

Document E: How the Other Half Lives Tenement Housing: Jacob Riis Journalist and photographer who publicized the wretched conditions in which many immigrants lived  why is this important? Reform: New York State Tenement House Bill found in Chapter 8, Sect. 3

Document F: State Actions Affecting Working Conditions 1911 Recommendations of Illinois Commission on Occupational Disease (1909) result in Illinois Occupational Disease Act (ventilation, sanitation, fumes, temperature) 1911 Wisconsin becomes first state to pass workman’s compensation legislation 1911 Wisconsin legislature limits hours of labor for women and children 1911–1915 Recommendations of New York State Factory Investigating Commission result in dozens of new laws creating healthier and safer factory working conditions during New York’s “golden era in remedial factory legislation” 1912 New York State Factory Investigating Commission requires automatic sprinklers for all floors above seventh floor of buildings; broadens regulation and inspection of workplace safety (fire escapes, safe gas jets, fireproof receptacles, escape routes, fire drills) 1912 Massachusetts passes first state minimum wage law 1913 Oregon law requires payment of overtime for workers in mills or factories (over ten hours a day)

Document G: Bosses of the Senate Political Problems?

17 th Amendment... The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.... How does this help solve corruption in government?

Your Goal: To PROVE that the three Progressive reforms that you chose had the greatest impact on American society by citing 4 documents.

Historical Context Background information – use the Overview, background essay, textbook, and all other notes & handouts to… (1) Identify a time period and location (US) (2) describe the conditions in society prior (before) to the Progressive Reform Era (3) provide an explanation/definition of “progressives” and (4) why the Progressive reform movement was needed: