1. 10 examples each category
Review
Social
Political
Economic
10 examples each category

2. Predict
What were specific social, political, and economic problems from the Gilded Age that you would expect Progressives to address during this era ( , ).

3. 28 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

4. Essential Questions
Outline the origin, leadership, and goals of progressivism.
Assess the impact of specific groups on the progressive movement.
Assess the progressiveness of the progressive presidents.

5. The Election of 1900

6. The Election of 1904

7. The Election of 1908

8. 27. William Howard Taft

9. Helen Herron Taft

10. A Growing Economy

11. A Growing Economy
The Progressive years saw a prospering US economy, improved by plentiful manufacturing and farming improvements.

12. Science, Technology, and Industry

13. Science, Technology, and Industry

14. Science, Technology, and Industry
Science  improved industry  better products and a more scientifically competitive USA

15. Electricity & Cars

16. Electricity & Cars

17. Electricity & Cars

18. Electricity & Cars

19. Electricity & Cars
“Science is the culture under which people can live forward in the midst of complexity, and treat life not as something given but as something to be shaped.”
-Walter Lippmann
Journalist and intellectual

20. The Moving Assembly Line

21. Electricity & Cars
Electricity and automobiles were life changing and spread quickly throughout urban America.
What aspects of life were not affected by the improvements in technology during this time?

22. Progressive Reform

23. Progressive Reform

24. Progressive Reform
Progressivism was widespread and differed according to regional and individual interests.

25. Urban Problems

26. Primary Source reading: excerpt from Sinclair’s The Jungle

27. Primary Source reading: excerpt from Tarbell’s “The History of the Standard Oil Company”

28. Discuss: Tarbell and Sinclair attempted to expose the corruption of Standard Oil and the abuse of immigrants, respectively. Whose challenge was bigger? Using the excerpt, find a compelling sentence in each that shows their argument.

29. Urban Problems

30. Urban Problems
Many Progressives began reform at the local level, especially in urban areas.
What were the motives for progressive reform?

31. State Politics

32. State Politics

33. State Politics
Wisconsin led the way in state political reform. Social reform varied according to the social makeup of the area.

34. Stop, summarize, question

35. Unions and the State
“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common” IWW preamble

36. Unions and the State

37. Unions and the State

38. Unions and the State

39. Unions and the State

40. Unions and the State
The AFL helped skilled laborers but ignored the unskilled.
The IWW filled this vacuum and united the unskilled and promoted socialist ideas, which were increasingly popular to many of the reform minded.
Which branches of the government were most progressive, and least? Why was this? Is this still true today?

41. Immigration Reconsidered

42. Immigration Reconsidered

43. Immigration Reconsidered

44. Immigration Reconsidered
The nativists’ voice against immigration grew louder and was eventually realized with immigration restriction in the 1920s.

45. Class, Ethnicity, & Race

46. Primary Source reading: excerpt from Wong Ar Chong’s letter to Garrison

47. Class, Ethnicity, & Race
Most Americans lived among the lower classes, split by race and ethnicity.

48. Race and the Nation

49. Race and the Nation

50. Race and the Nation
The treatment of African Americans in the South showed no hope of improving  migration north.
What factors encouraged Americans to embrace diversity during this time?

51. Women and Reform—Jobs & Rights

52. Women and Reform—Jobs & Rights

53. Women and Reform—Jobs & Rights
S. Josephine Baker and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

54. Women and Reform—Jobs & Rights
The women's reform movement of the antebellum years continued as more white women were able to get an education and wield more political power and as the middle class grew.

55. Primary Source: Goldman poster

56. Primary Source reading: excerpt from Gilman’s Women and Economics

57. Discuss

58. Winning the Right to Vote

59. Winning the Right to Vote

60. Winning the Right to Vote

61. Winning the Right to Vote
Women moved toward passing a constitutional amendment rather than working on a state or local level to get the vote.

62. National Politics under TR

63. National Politics under TR

64. Primary Source reading: Muir’s “Dam Hetch Hetchy!”

65. National Politics under TR

66. National Politics under TR

67. National Politics under TR
TR worked with the creation of new administrations to push progressive policy such as the Pure Food and Drug Act, among others.
What is TR’s legacy today?

68. The Successor— William Howard Taft

69. The Successor— William Howard Taft
Despite Taft’s one term in office, he was able to accomplish many progressive acts. But, his distrust of Progressives led to the creation of the Progressive Republican League and the Bull Moose Party.
How progressive were the Progressives?

70. Stop, summarize, question