1. Please sit in your assigned seat, and quietly follow the directions below:
Answer the following question on a sheet of notebook paper, or in your Bell Ringer notebook:
Imagine you are given an assignment to create a proposal that will fix the social problems of America (poverty, hunger, homelessness, etc.). Give five major points for your plan. Make sure to EXPLAIN your points.

2. The Right to Vote Chapter 18
USHC Standard 4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the industrial development and the consequences of that development on society and politics during the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century.
USHC 4.5: Explain the causes and effects of urbanization in the late nineteenth-century America, including the movement from farm to city, the changing immigration patterns, the rise of ethnic neighborhoods, the role of political machines, and the migration of African Americans to the North, Midwest, and West.
The Right to Vote
Chapter 18

3. The Progressive Movement
: The Progressive Era
Progressivism: a collection of different ideas and activities to fix American society
Progressives generally believed:
Industrialization and urbanization had created many social problems
The government should take more responsibility for these problems

4. The Progressive Movement
After seeing the poverty of the working class and the filth and crime of urban society, these reformers began to doubt the free market’s ability to address those problems.
Progressives believed the government had to be fixed in order to fix society’s problems.
Progressives believed science and technology would be able to solve the United States’ social problems.

5. The Progressive Movement
Examples of Progressive Groups:
The Muckrakers: a group of crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption
Efficiency Progressives: a group focusing on making government more efficient; they believed many problems in society could be solved if government worked properly

6. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

7. Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis

8. The Progressive Movement
Other advancements of Progressives:
Laboratory of Democracy: governor of Wisconsin Robert La Follette pushed political parties to hold direct primaries, where all party members voted for candidates, instead of one party boss picking the candidate
Initiative: allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it
Referendum: allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to voters for approval
Recall: allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired

9. The Suffrage Movement

10. The Progressive Movement
The Suffrage Movement:
Suffrage: the right to vote
The movement for women’s voting rights became known as the Suffrage Movement
The 14th and 15th amendments, introduced by Republicans after the Civil War, protected the voting rights of African Americans
States began granting women voting rights around 1912
By 1916, Congress began to favor a constitutional amendment

11. The Progressive Movement
The House of Representatives passed a woman suffrage amendment in 1918, but it failed in the Senate
In 1919, after mid-term elections, the Senate finally passed the Nineteenth Amendment
On August 26, 1920, after ¾ of the states ratified it, the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote

12. The Progressive Movement
Other Progressive Ideas:
Child Labor Laws: research done by progressives on the effects of child labor convinced states to pass laws against it

13. Health and Safety Codes: progressives joined union leaders to push for workers’ compensation laws

14. Prohibition: many progressives pressed for laws banning manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol

15. The Progressive Movement
Progressives believed in more government interference in the economy, in order to distribute wealth they felt was unfairly concentrated in the hands of too few people
The most extreme progressives advocated for socialism, the idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole

16. Please answer the following question on the same notebook paper you used for the Bell Ringer (or in your Bell Ringer notebook):
Capitalism: an economic system where production and distribution are performed for profit; private ownership; the right to set prices and wages; and the right to control property and determine how it is used, sold, or rented. In this system, the role of government is to ensure free markets and open competition, as well as to protect individual rights.
Socialism: a political and economic theory that emphasizes common ownership and cooperative management of production and resources, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
Which government theology do you agree with? WHY?