1. Warm-UP
Rank the problems from your photo analysis last class. Which problem do you think was the most serious? Why?

2. Photo Analysis
You have received anonymous photos from a concerned citizen highlighting issues that need to be addressed by government.
Examine the pictures using the national archive analysis procedures as a template
As you are viewing the gallery jot down issues the photo highlights

3. Exit Ticket
Would you want to live in this time period (1890s-1920)? Why or Why not?
If you could live in any of the time periods we have studied so far, which one would you choose and why?
(Colonies, Revolution, Const, Westward Movement, Civil War, Industrialization (GildedAge)

4. The Progressive Movement
Causes and Goals
VUS.8d: The student will demonstrate knowledge of how the nation grew and changed from the end of Reconstruction through the early 20th century by:
d) Identifying the causes and impact of the Progressive Movement, including the excesses of the Gilded Age, child labor …

5. The Progressive Movement
Used govt. to institute reforms for problems created by industrialization

6. Causes of the Progressive Movement#1
Excesses of the Gilded Age
Income Disparity and lavish lifestyles
Practices of robber barons

7. Causes of the Progressive Movement#2
Working conditions for labor
Dangerous
Long hours, low pay, no benefits, no job security
Child Labor
Company Towns

8. Goals of the Progressive Movement
Govt controlled by the people – not corporations
Guaranteed economic opportunities through govt. regulation
Elimination of social
injustices

9. Progressive Accomplishments
Local
New forms of
government
State
Referendum
Initiative
Recall

10. Progressive Accomplishments
Elections
Primary Elections
Direct Election of U.S. Senators
Secret Ballot
Child Labor
Muckraking literature describing abuses
Child Labor laws

11. Why Reform Local Government?
Corrupt mayors who run cities like a King

12. Commission System
Departments controlled by commissioners – not the mayor - Fire,
police, garbage
Ex: New York City

13. Council - Manager City Council make the laws
City Manager administers the laws
Ex: Virginia Beach

14. Reforms of State Government Initiatives + Referendums
State laws made and voted on by State voters

15. Recall Way for State voters to remove bad elected officials
Protestor petitioning to recall Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin 2011

16. 17th Amendment (1913)
Voters directly elect their US Senators

17. Other Voting Reforms
Secret Ballots
Primaries for Prez. /Congress

18. The Muckrakers Journalists
Muckrakers expose horrible conditions children are required to work in
expose big business + Gov’t corruption

19. CHILD LABOR
Child Labor Laws limit the age, job, and hours children can work