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1 What problems existed in the Gilded Age?
The United States entered the Progressive Era from 1890 to 1920 when a variety of reformers tried to clean up problems created during the Gilded Age What problems existed in the Gilded Age?

2 City, state, and federal governments were seen as corrupt
The United States entered the Progressive Era from 1890 to 1920 when a variety of reformers tried to clean up problems created during the Gilded Age Industrialization led to a rise in urbanization, immigration, poverty, and dangerous working conditions City, state, and federal governments were seen as corrupt Corporate monopolies limited competition and workers’ wages

3 In the 1880s, many middle-class Protestant Christians embraced the Social Gospel movement
The Social Gospel taught that to honor God, people must help others and reform society

4 An early reformer was Jane Addams who created Hull House in Chicago
Progressive reform began in American cities in response to slums, tenements, child labor, alcohol abuse, prostitution, and political corruption An early reformer was Jane Addams who created Hull House in Chicago Hull House was the first settlement house which offered baths, cheap food, child care, job training, health care to help the poor Jane Addams’ efforts inspired reformers in other cities to build settlement houses to assist the poor

5 The YMCA created gyms and libraries to help young men and children
Urban reformers tried to improve the lives of poor workers and children The YMCA created gyms and libraries to help young men and children The Salvation Army created nurseries and soup kitchens Florence Kelley fought to create child labor laws and laws limiting women to a 10 hour day

6 Many reformers saw alcohol abuse as serious problem
Temperance reformers hoped that ending alcohol would reduce corruption, crime, assimilate immigrants Frances Willard Reformers Frances Willard and Carrie Nation led the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) to fight for prohibition laws Carrie Nation

7 Reformers gained prohibition laws in rural areas and states in the South and West
In 1919, the states ratified the 18th Amendment which outlawed alcohol throughout the USA

8 Investigative journalists known as muckrakers exposed corruption, poverty, health hazards, and monopolies

9 What did Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives (1890) expose?
Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives (1890) exposed urban poverty and life in the slums America: The Story of Us Jacob Riis video

10 What did Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) expose?
Ida Tarbell’s The History of Standard Oil (1904) revealed Rockefeller’s ruthless business practices and called for the break-up of large monopolies

11 What did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) expose?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) revealed the unsanitary conditions of slaughterhouses and led to government regulation of food industries

12 Quick Class Discussion: Read excerpts from The Jungle
Quick Class Discussion: Read excerpts from The Jungle. Why did the book generate outrage from Americans and politicians?

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