1. TEXT LETTER TO 37607:

2. UNIT 7- PROGRESSIVE ERA 1890s- 1920
Please text ROBERTRIDER543 to #37607
Please have out your Progressive packets from the stations…
KEY QUESTION:
Fixing the problems of the Gilded Age….
How did Progressives seek political, economic, and social change in society?

3. What is a “muckraker”? (last week’s homework?)
Are there any examples of muckraking today…….?

4. Journalists who exposed problems in society
Muckrakers-
Journalists who exposed problems in society
Ida Tarbell- abusive practices of Standard Oil Trust
Lincoln Steffens- corruption in government
Upton Sinclair- working conditions/ food sanitation

5. UNIT 7- PROGRESSIVE ERA 1890s- 1920
Fixing the problems of the Gilded Age….
How did Progressives seek political, economic, and social change in society?
What SPECIFIC issues did the U.S. face by the end of the Gilded Age? (1900 or so)
SOCIAL ECONOMIC POLITICAL

6. Station 1: JACOB RIIS- using photography to show the plight of the urban poor

7. Station 2: (NOTES): Making government more “democratic”

8. Reforms making gov’t more “democratic”
On the state level:
Initiative- CITIZENS make gov’t vote on an issue
Referendum- CITIZENS vote on a law itself
RECALL- voters can remove elected officials

9. On the national level 17th AMENDMENT: Direct election of US Senators
(Before 1913, state legislators chose- lots of power to party bosses and big business)

10. What might be appealing about Communism to the Progressives?

11. Station 3: Consumer Protection Upton Sinclair
Writes the Jungle about meat packing industry
President Roosevelt reads… demands action
1906 Meat Inspection Act
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act- “truth in labeling”

12. Margaret Sanger
Arrested for…..

13. Writing about birth control….
She believes it’s necessary for the equality and health of women… How so?
Why do you think this was considered “obscene”?

14. What were the arguments against women’s suffrage?
What were people scared of?

15. Women’s Suffrage… Background review
Elizabeth Cady Stanton… Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt (NAWSA)
KEEP GOING STATE BY STATE…
vs. Alice Paul- Nat’l Women’s Party
Radical- GO FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
19th Amendment- WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE

16. What were the messages of the cartoons?
Do you believe the government should criminalize intoxicating drugs, including alcohol? Explain…

17. Prohibition Women’s Christian Temperance Union… Anti-Saloon League…
Prohibition Party…
18th Amendment
Bans manufacture, distribution,
sale, consumption of
alcohol

18. CHILD LABOR
Keating-Owen Act (1916)-outlaws child labor in industries engaged in interstate commerce
declared unconstitutional
By 1929 every state had a provision banning children under fourteen from working.
What was the impact of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?

19. What was the status of African Americans in the early 1900s?

20. Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Dubois
Who was a stronger advocate for African Americans?

21. African Americans- pretty much ignored by “Progressives”
Washington
DuBois
Southerner
Former slave
Focus:
Education, work hard now…. Eventual equality
Forms Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Harvard educated
Northerner
Focus:
FULL EQUALITY NOW for African Americans
Creates NAACP- fights for equality in courts

22. Unit 7 key question:
How did Progressives seek political, economic, and social change in society?
Closure activity:
IDENTIFY 3 SPECIFIC PROBLEMS AND LINK THEM TO SPECIFIC PROGRESSIVE ERA SOLUTION

23. An important political aim of the Progressive movement was to
guarantee government jobs for the unemployed
stimulate democratic reforms such as the initiative and the referendum
create a unicameral national legislature
increase the participation of African Americans in the Federal Government

24. In the early 20th century, muckrakers were able to influence American society mainly through their
frequent acts of civil disobedience
activities as government officials
publication of articles and books
control over factories

25. Most American authors have adopted a con-servative viewpoint
How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1890) The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1906) The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939) Unsafe at Any Speed, Ralph Nader (1965)
What has been the impact of these authors and their books on American society?
Most Americans have developed a preference for escapist and romantic literature.
Most American authors have adopted a con-servative viewpoint
American business has corrected poor condi-tions quickly.
These works have had significant influence on social, political, and economic reforms.