1. The Progressive Response
A Response Group Activity

2. The Progressive Response
1900’s Brought rapid change due to
Industrialization
Immigration
Urbanization

3. II. Changes Brought Problems
Poor Working / Living Conditions
Fraud to Consumers
Unfair Business Practices
Political Corruption
Destruction of Wilderness

4. III. Progressives Brought Change
They Were Reformers who aimed to fight these problems
Mostly White Middle Class Professionals
Pres. Teddy Roosevelt- Square Deal Plan
Regulated fair business
Protected consumers
Increased rights of workers
Protected natural resources
Woodrow Wilson-
Anti-Clayton Trust Act

5. III. Progressives Brought Change
6 Categories of Progressivism
Political Reform
Economic Reform
Social Reform
Environmental Reform
Muckrakers
Progressive Personalities/People

6. IV. “Fighting Bob” La Follette
Progressive Governor of Wisconsin
Relentless Fighter for Progressive Causes
-notably RR Industry
Question A

7. V. Ida Tarbell

8. V. Ida Tarbell Muckraker Wrote History of Standard Oil Company Others
Upton Sinclair- The Jungle
Jacob Riis- photographer
Question B

9. VI. Child Labor/ Poor Working Conditions

10. VI. Child Labor/ Poor Working Conditions
12 hour days/6-7 days per week
No Minimum Wage
No Unemployment Insurance
Unsafe/ Unsanitary Conditions
Child Slavery

11. VI. Child Labor/ Poor Working Conditions
Low Union Membership –1900 only 3%
G. Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire 1911 (see next slide)
Some Relief
Roosevelt sided w/ unions 1902-coal strike
1903- Department of Commerce and Labor
Question C

12. The Triangle
Shirtwaist
Factory Fire,
March 25, 1911

13. “The Shirtwaist Kings” Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

14. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Asch Building, 8th and 10th Floors

16. Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

17. Inside the Building After the Fire

18. Most Doors Were Locked

19. Crumpled Fire Escape, 26 Died

20. 10th Floor After the Fire

21. Dead Bodies on the Sidewalk

22. Dead Bodies on the Sidewalk

23. Scene at the Morgue

24. Relatives Review Bodies 145 Dead

25. Page of the New York Journal

26. One of the Many Funerals

27. Protestors March to City Hall

28. Labor Unions March as Mourners

29. The Investigation Francis Perkins Future Secetary Of Labor
Alfred E. Smith – Future NYC Mayor and Presidential Candidate

30. Out of the Ashes ILGWU membership surged.
NYC created a Bureau of Fire Prevention.
New strict building codes were passed.
Tougher fire inspection of sweatshops.
Growing momentum of support for women’s suffrage.

31. The Foundations Were Laid for the New Deal Here in 1911
Al Smith ran unsuccessfully in 1928 on many of the reform programs that would be successful for another New Yorker 4 years later – FDR.
In the 1930s, the federal government created OSHA [the Occupational Safety & Health Administration].
The Wagner Act.
Francis Perkins  first female Cabinet member [Secretary of Labor] in FDR’s administration.

32. VII. Food Inspection

33. VII. Food Inspection Reduction in Food quality
Biggest offender- Meat Packing industry
Unsafe chemicals additives and false advertising
Lead to Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Question D

34. VIII. Trustbusting

35. VIII. Trustbusting Monopolies out of Hand Roosevelt=#1 trustbuster
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
-prevented large companies from destroying smaller ones
Clayton Anti-Trust Act –Wilson
-prohibited price fixing
Question E

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37. IX. Political Corruption/ Women’s Suffrage

38. IX. Political Corruption/ Women’s Suffrage
Political Machines (fixed elections)
Power in hands of rich few
Politicians had little accountability
Progressives sought to make gov’t more responsive to people. NOT $$$
1920- Women’s Suffrage Achieved
Question F

39. X. Conservationism

40. X. Conservationism
Roosevelt’s greatest achievement as a progressive president.
John Muir (influence)
Huge tracts of wilderness reserved
National parks created.
Question G

41. XI. Civil Rights

42. XI. Civil Rights
Most Progressives not concerned with Civil Rights issues.
W.E.B. Dubois created the NAACP
Fought for rights of Black Americans.
Question H