1. LT#3: Understand the progressive movements and the effects of the different progressive movements

2. WHAT WAS THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT?  Progress!!!!!!!!  Americans wanted change  Americans united in groups to make change happen  Time in US history were A LOT of change took place to improve the USA WHAT LED UP TO THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT?  Industrialization  Urbanization (growth of cities) ▪ Issues with cities  Work conditions being bad  Unorganized governments  Corrupt governments- political machine  Lack of basic rights

3.  These were journalist, writers and reporters who began exposing all the issue the USA was dealing with.  Exposed: Corruption in the government ▪ Corruption in corporations ▪ Write about unsanitary conditions

4.  NO ONE was regulating/controlling medication or food  =Food was nasty and medication was fake  Muckraker Uptain Sinclair wrote “The Jungle”  He had gone undercover in a meat packing co. ▪ No washing of hands, lost body parts in meat, rats, rotten food ▪ His finding outraged the people  President Roosevelt and congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act. and Pure food & Drug Act  This required inspections of meat factories and meat being sold.

5.  Companies began taking over smaller companies = shutting them down  They created monopolies on products  (When only one group controls everything: such as I am the only person who has orange trees so I can sell them at what ever price I want)  These monopolies used any means possible to control all the business = Corruption  Present T. Roosevelt wanted to stop the corrupt so he supported a new law/act  The Sherman Anti-trust act was created to make creating monopolies illegal  President Roosevelt asked congress to create the Bureau of Corporations  This organization investigated the corporations for illegal behavior

6.  Progressives wanted the government “cleaned up”  They called for Senators to be chosen by the people NOT other representatives ▪ They saw this as a form of corruption (political machines)  The 17 amendment was passed giving the people the right to vote for senators = less political corruption

7.  People tried to use biblical ideas and Christian values to make change  This movement started the Salvation Army, and the YMCA (young men's Christian Association)  This movement created homes, education helped poor people with food, jobs and housing.  Jane Adams House was a home for poor immigrant women and children

8.  Women wanted the right to vote  All men had the right to vote under the 15 th amendment but not women  National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) created to organize women and supporters  Women marched in parades, made signs, held meetings, wrote letters and protested in front of the white house ▪ Women who fought for women rights were seen as immoral and radical (AKA Bad women)  The suffrage movement was successful! Women got the right to vote with the 19 th amendment

9.  This movement advocated for moderation or elimination of alcohol  These people saw alcohol as the main cause of issues such as: ▪ Poverty, abuse, and sickness  This movement was successful a few years later when the USA made alcohol illegal

10.  Kids had always worked on farms but with their families  Industrialization led to kids working in factories  Young kids  Long hours  John Spargo wrote a book, “The bitter cry of the children”  He exposed how badly children were treated  President Taft created the Children’s Bureau to investigate child abuse