1. Journal 10/23 What did the following amendments do? 16th 17th 18th

2. The Progressive Era

3. Describe the Classes of Wealth
Based on the following images, describe how “The Wealthy”, “The Middle Class”, and “The Working Class” lived.

4. Different Classes emerged 1. The Wealthy

7. The Middle Class

9. The Working Class:

11. Theodore Roosevelt used his campaign for president to make changes for the better in America

12. Bully Pulpit His campaign Slogan
Square Deal: was his plan
of reform
“See that each person is given a square deal because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less”
AKA: balance between workers, business, and consumers.

13. For the following issues..
Write the problems on one side of your paper, and the progress made to solving those issues on the other side.

14. Labor Problems: Long hours (12-16) Low pay Child Labor No Unions
No safety
Scofield Mine Disaster
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Progress:

21. Labor Problems: Progress: Long hours (12-16) Eight hour workday
Low pay
Child labor
No unions
No safety
Scofield Mine Disaster
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Progress:
Progress:
Eight hour workday
Higher wages
Child labor banned
Unions legalized
Worker safety laws

22. Living Conditions Progress: Problems: Overcrowding Cleanliness
Diseases
Street crime

26. Living Conditions Progress: Problems:
Cheaper housing, less overcrowding
More room, more clean
Healthcare, less diseases
Less poverty, less street crime
Problems:
Overcrowding
Cleanliness
Diseases
Street crime

27. Environment Progress: Problems: Depletion of natural resources
Too much pollution
Destruction of other species

32. Environment Progress: Problems:
Newlands Reclamation Act to improve irrigation
National Parks created
Buffalo protection laws
Problems:
Depletion of natural resources
Too much pollution
Extinction of other species

33. Business Progress: Problems:
Giant companies called “trusts” controlled everything
Robber Barons
Huge gap between rich and poor
Progress:

36. Andrew Carnegie

37. Cornelius Vanderbilt

38. JP Morgan

39. John D. Rockefeller

40. Henry Ford

41. Business Progress: Trust Busting Laws Income Taxes (16th Am.)
Problems:
Giant companies called “trusts” controlled everything
Robber Barons
Huge gap between rich and poor
Progress:
Trust Busting Laws
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission
Income Taxes (16th Am.)
Luxury Taxes

42. Railroad Acts
Problems: some companies paid more or less money to ship products.
Problems: Ticket prices were different
Elkins Act: All companies pay the same rate to ship goods.
Hepburn Act: There is a price cap on ticket prices

43. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
"competition law."
protect competition by making monopolies illegal
Example:

44. Clayton Anti-Trust Act
prevent anticompetitive practices Such as monopolies
outlawing practices considered harmful to consumers

45. Income Taxes (16th Am.)

46. Food & Drugs
Progress:
Problems:
Unsanitary
Unsafe

50. Food & Drugs Progress: Problems: Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food & Drug Act
Problems:
Unsanitary
Unsafe

51. Examples Meat Inspection Act Pure Food & Drug Act
provided federal inspection of meat products
The Pure Food and Drug Act required that certain specified drugs, including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, morphine, be accurately labeled

52. Protecting Consumers
Problems: Meats were often "adulterated "filthy, decomposed, or putrid
Harmful additives were put in food
Meat inspection act: A federal inspection of all transported meats
Pure Food and Drug Acts: 1. Take out harmful ingredients 2. label the ingredients clearly on the food

53. Example Salami:
Post Meat Inspection Act
Pre-Meat Inspection Act:

54. Salami Label
1. Pork
2. Dry Milk
3. Salt
4. Sugar
5. Corn Starch

55. Progress: Government Problems: Corrupt politicians
Election manipulation
Urban bosses

58. Government Progress: Problems: Corrupt politicians
Muckraking journalism exposed corruption
Robert La Follette encouraged change to the political election system.
Direct election of senators (17th Am.)
Direct primary elections
Initiatives & referendums
Recall elections
Secret ballots
Problems:
Corrupt politicians
Election manipulation
Urban bosses

59. Direct Primaries: This means that voters can elect their party’s primary candidate for the presidential election
Initiative: allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it.
Referendum: it allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval.
Recall: allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired.