1. Knights Charge 2/29
List 3 things that happened that were good for Americans during the Gilded Age. Why were they good?
List 3 things that were bad for Americans during the Gilded Age. Why were they bad?
Tell me what word comes to mind when you hear the word “Progressive”

2. Progressive

3. Introduction to the Progressive Movement

4. The Drive for Reform
Progressives were unhappy about the changes caused by the Gilded Ages
Believed that industrialization and urbanization caused social and political problems
Progressives felt the people needed to have a more powerful voice in government and democracy

5. Reforming Government
Progressives wanted to reform the political process to better society
New city governments took power away from political machines
Progressives also supported a direct primaries- process where the citizens select nominees

6. Initiative
Initiative- gave the people the power to put a proposed new law on the ballot

7. Referendum
Referendum- Allowed citizens to accept or reject laws passed by legislature

8. Recall
Recall- gave people power to remove elected officials

9. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
March 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory killed 146 women
Illustrated how dangerous factory life was
Progressives wanted to make workplaces safer

13. Journalists Expose Problems
Much of the economic and political corruption was exposed by muckrakers
Muckrakers-Journalists who wanted to uncover social and political problems were known as Muckrakers

14. Upton Sinclair Wrote The Jungle in 1906
Exposed the meat packing industry and working conditions

15. Jacob Riis Photographed tenement buildings in NYC
Displayed the poor living conditions of many immigrants and poor lived in the slums of New York in “How the Other Half Lives”

19. Lincoln Steffens
Exposed government corruption in St. Louis in “The Shame of the Cities” on 1904

20. Ida Tarbell Was strongly outspoken against big business
In her book, “The History of the Standard Oil Company, she strongly criticized John D. Rockefeller’s business practices

21. Social Gospel
Reform movement that wanted to improve society through applying Christian principles

22. Show Me Time!!!
What movement wanted to change the problems of the Gilded Age?
What were journalists who uncovered social problems known as?
What was applying Christian principles to social problems known as?
How did the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire impact what Progressives wanted?
What were 3 examples of how the people received more power in the democratic process during this period?