1. Chapter 17 The Progressive Era (1890-1920) Section 1: Drive for Reform
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2. Progressivism Page
What changes in America led to the emergence of the Progressive movement?
What types of people were attracted to the Progressive movement?
What are some of the many problems that Progressives hoped to solve?

3. Progressivism Page
What changes in America led to the emergence of the Progressive movement?
(Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration all helped lead to the emergence of the Progressive Movement)
What types of people were attracted to the Progressive movement?
(Progressives came from all aspects of society, regardless of political party, religion, ethnicity or social class, but women played a key role)

4. 3. What are some of the many problems that Progressives hoped to solve?
Womens right to vote
Corrupt and inefficient government
Poor living conditions in cities
Abuses of big business
Reduce gap between rich and poor
Improve working conditions of lower class
Child Labor

5. “Muckrakers”
Muckraking is a form of journalism, used words and pictures to push for reform
Lincoln Steffens wrote about corruption within the Philadelphia gov’t
Jacob Riis was a photographer who photographed the horrid conditions in NYC’s tenement housing
Author Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” exposing the dangerous and unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants

6. Progressives Reform Society
Social Gospel: Some progressives Christians used religion as a motivation to seek reform by referring to the teachings of Jesus
Jane Addams a leader in the settlement house movement, opening community centers in cities to benefit the poor (YMCA) Hull House

7. Labor Reforms
Progressives fought from the early 1900’s to ban child labor
The Keating-Owens Act (1918) banned child labor but the Supreme Court ruled this unconstitutional, child labor existed in some form until 1938
Workers of all ages faced dangers at work with 30,000 dying on the job each year and 500,000 being injured
In 1911 a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in NYC killed 146 workers, mostly women
Reforms came slowly to make conditions safer in the workplace

8. The United States Children’s Bureau was created in 1912.
Progressives succeeded in reducing child labor and improving school enrollment.
The United States Children’s Bureau was created in 1912. 8

9. Galveston Hurricane of 1900
Sept 1900, massive hurricane strikes Galveston, TX without warning
8,000 people are killed in the deadliest natural disaster in US history
Many felt the gov’t did not do enough and the Mayor and his board were replaced by a city commission
By cities had followed the “Galveston Model” and adopted city commissions as well

13. Reforming Gov’t Page 554-555 DEFINE Direct Primary Initiative
Referendum
Recall
17th Amendment
Open Ended
Who was Robert LaFollette?
Who were the Progressive minded governors of NY and NJ and what reforms did they pass?

14. 2012 Republican Primary

15. Initiative: The NC Ban on Gay Marriage in 2012

16. The Recall of Wisc. Gov Scott Walker in 2012