1. Introduction to Progressivism
Manhattan's "Bandit's Roost" Alley, 1888
Men loiter in the alley known as "Bandit's Roost" off Mulberry Street in lower Manhattan.

2. Progressivism: What? Why? How?
Reaction to Industrial Revolution (1890s-1920s)
Why?
Reaction to problems of Industrial Revolution
How?
Use the government to fix those problems

3. Progressivism: Who? Middle to upper-middle class Urban/city dwellers
High educated
Lots were women
Senator Robert La Follette Sr. speaks to a group of women during his unsuccessful run for President as a Progressive in 1924.

4. Who got them started: Muckrakers
Journalists that investigated and exposed problems

5. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair:

6. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Social Reforms
Economic Reforms
Political Reforms

7. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Social Reforms
Social Problems
Reforms/Reformers
Jane Addams & Hull House (in Chicago!)
1. Urban Poverty
Beginnings of social work
Provided education, job training, day care, medical care to poor immigrants

8. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Social Reforms
Social Problems
Reforms/Reformers
Jacob Riis
1. Urban poverty
2. Unsafe housing
Photographer of the lives of poor city dwellers
Spurred reforms of crime, disease, building codes

9. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Social Reforms
Social Problems
Reforms/Reformers
WCTU - Women’s Christian Temperence Union
3. Drinking
18th Ammendment - Prohibited making/selling alcohol (Prohibition)
Carry Nation
Temperance supporter Carry Nation speaks out against alcohol holding a Bible and a hatchet. Nation was famous for taking a hatchet to bar fixtures and stock

10. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Social Reforms
Social Problems
Reforms/Reformers
4. Crime/Fires
Professional fire, police departments
1911-New York, NY: Traingle Shirt Waist fire disaster view of some of the ruins after the blaze swept the factory

11. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Social Reforms
Social Problems
Reforms/Reformers
5. Child labor
Child Labor Laws

12. Thinking Slide (Think! Don’t Write!)
If you were in charge, which of the social reforms would you tackle first? Why?

13. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Economic Reforms
Economic Problems
Reforms/Reformers
1. Large corporate monopolies
Ida Tarbell
Took on the corruption of Standard Oil through a series of magazine articles
Government began “busting” monopolies

14. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Political Reforms
Political Problems
Reforms/Reformers
2. Corrupt Government
Initiative - people get around corrupt politicians by proposing legislation themselves
Referendum - people have to approve legislation

15. And it became a reform movement:
Progressives - Made 3 Kinds of Reforms:
Political Reforms
Political Problems
Reforms/Reformers
1. Corrupt Government
Recall - people can recall corrupt politicans
Secret ballot
Women’s suffrage (voting)
Direct election of Senators

16. “Bosses of the Senate” What does it mean?
Pigs Cartoon
“Bosses of the Senate” What does it mean?