1. What areas of society do you feel need to be fixed?
WARM UP
What areas of society do you feel need to be fixed?
Share with your neighbor what you wrote.

2. Class Ideas

3. Who were the Progressives?
Protection for individuals
People who believed in improving society.
White collar middle class and blue collar working class.
More regulation of government and business

4. What is being “raked up” in these photos?

5. Class Ideas

6. “The History of Standard Oil”
Meet the Muckrakers
JACOB RIIS
“How the Other Half Live”
Unsafe living conditions of
city poor.
UPTON SINCLAIR
“The Jungle”
Meatpacking consumer and labor issues
LINCOLN STEFFENS
“The Shame of Cities”
Wrote about corruption in city politics.
IDA TARBELL
“The History of Standard Oil”
Unethical business practices of Standard Oil

7. “The Bitter Cry of Children”
More Muckrakers
THOMAS NAST
Political Cartoons
City Corruption
JOHN SPARGO
“The Bitter Cry of Children”
Wrote to end child labor
FRANK NORRIS
“The Octopus”
Wrote about railroads treatment of farmers

8. Look Back
Sort the muckrakers into a chart on the areas that were focused on.
Share with your partner what you wrote

9. Class Ideas

10. Government Corruption
Social Reforms
Government Corruption
Tenement House Law
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food & Drug Act
National Child Labor Committee
The Children’s Bureau
Prohibition
Bribes
&
buying votes
Replace politicians with experts in their fields
Commission Plan
Council-Manager Plan
Give voters more say in the government
Direct Primary
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
17th Amendment – direct election of Senators
Business Reforms
Sherman Anti Trust Act

11. Look Back Match 3 muckrakers with the reforms
Share with your partner what you wrote

12. Class Ideas
Muckraker
Reform

13. Exit Think back to your warm up –
How would you go about getting this fixed. What would you do?