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2. Bell Ringer
Campaigned to prohibit child labor, limit working hours, initiate minimum wage laws.
Progressives attacked gov’t corruption at all levels
1. What issues did Progressives focus on, and what helped energize their cause?
2. How did Progressives try to reform society?
3. How did Progressives fight to reform the workplace?
4. How did Progressives reform gov’t at the national, state, and local levels?
Practices of Big Business; Helping urban poor; Improving working conditions; Reforming gov’t; Newspapers and magazines gave publicity to their cause.
By exposing the problems; Forming organizations to lobby for improvements.

3. New York City’s Mulberry Street
The Progressives
Chapter 16
New York City’s Mulberry Street

4. What the Heck is Progressivism?
Sought to address the new problems that came with the urban growth and industrialization
Improve living conditions of urban poor
Check the power of big business
Stop gov’t corruption and improve service
REFORM, REFORM, REFORM

5. Muckrakers…Journalists expose problems and corruption
Ida Tarbell
Exposed ruthless business practices of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil broke into Chevron, Amoco, Conoco, Exxon, and Mobil

6. Muckity Muckrakers
Novelist Upton Sinclair highlights poverty and the meatpacking industry with his book, The Jungle
“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach”

7. More Muckrakers… Jacob Riis
Photojournalist whose book, How the Other Half Lives, showed the dirty underbelly of urban life

8. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
Over 140 people died, mostly young immigrant women
Doors opened inward on 8th floor where fire started
Firefighters could spray water only to 7th floor
Fire ladders only reached between 6th and 7th floor
There were only two fire escapes
Doors locked to prevent theft

9. Reform, Reform, Reform Society Reform Workplace Reform Housing
Civil Rights
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Anti-Defamation League
Workplace Reform
Child Labor Laws
10 hour days
Minimum Wage
Unions
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
“We’d rather starve quick than starve slow”
Uprising of 20,000
Industrial Workers of the World

10. More Reform… City and State Gov’t Election Reform
City Commission System
Council-Manager System
Regulation of RR utilities, transportation
Election Reform
Direct Primaries
Vote directly for candidates
17th Amendment
Vote directly for Senators
Secret Ballot or “Australian Ballot”
All candidates of one sheet
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall