1. Warmup
List 3 famous Progressives that you learned about from the Progressive Thinkers worksheet

2. Problems Because of Urbanization
Bad Living Conditions
Housing = Slums
Overcrowded
Trash/Waste in Streets
Bad Working Conditions
Long Hours
Low Pay
No Safety
Corruption
Crooked Elections
Bosses Steal from Government
Monopolies
Nativism
Dislike of Immigrants
Prejudice/Discrimination
Lack of Rights
African-Americans Treated As Second Class Citizens
Women Cannot Vote
Other Problems
Pollution (water/food)
Economic Inequity

3. Possible Responses to Problems
Do Nothing!
Revolution!

4. Possible Responses to Problems
Progressives
Do Nothing!
Revolution!

5. Progressive Goals
Fix the problems created in society because of industrialization and urbanization
Political problems
Economic problems
Social problems
Environmental problems

6. Progressive Movement Origins
Started as different groups responding to issues in society:
Work of muckrakers
Social Gospel Movement
Social Reformers: educated middle-class’ reactions to problems

7. Muckrakers
Investigative Journalists that exposed the abuses of industry, political corruption, or other problems in society
Called muckrakers as an insult
“digging through the muck”
Looking for the truth

9. Famous Muckrakers
Jacob Riis – photographed conditions of the urban poor
Upton Sinclair – describes the unsanitary conditions in meat-packing industry
Ida Tarbell – showed how John D Rockefeller’s rise was based on ruthless business practices
Lincoln Steffens – exposed corruption in city and state governments
Frank Norris – depicted the stranglehold of railroads over farmers

10. Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis

11. Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
Sausage making
Meat industry

12. Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell
Standard Oil cartoons

13. Social Gospel Movement
Led by Protestant clergymen who believed in the idea that each man “was his brother’s keeper”
Instead of accepting problems as God’s will, they emphasized the Christian duty to help those who are less fortunate
Salvation Army
Wanted to improve the problems in society by addressing the causes (child labor, corruption, alcohol = Temperance Movement)

14. Social Reformers
People that identified problems and made efforts to overcome problems through reform
Believed that society can be made better!
Demand for reform has become a theme in American history!

15. Famous Social Reformers
Jane Addams – founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago
Settlement house: community center that provided services to the poor, usually immigrants
Ida B Wells – African American who campaigned against lynching
WEB Du Bois – African American who fought for equal rights and helped found the NAACP

16. Political Reforms Made
Secret Ballot
Initiative: voters can introduce bills
Referendum: voters can approve bills via election
Recall: voters can remove elected officials from office
Progressive Income Tax (16th Amendment)
Direct Election of Senators (17th Amendment)

17. Social Reforms Made Prohibition (18th Amendment)
Some states abolished child labor
Some states required compensation for workers injured on the job
Some states regulated safety and health conditions in factories
Some states limited the number of hours women could work

18. Progressive Presidents
The reformer spirit of the Progressive movement made it all the way up to the office of the President
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson

19. President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

20. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt believed the President represented ALL Americans
Must protect the public good
Square Deal: conserve resources, control corporations, consumer protection
Major Actions:
Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), broke up trusts (monopolies), conserved natural resources

21. “Trust-Busting Teddy”

22. President William Howard Taft

23. William Howard Taft Not Much to Brag About…
Taft’s inabilities to pass legislation led to Roosevelt’s comeback campaign for the Presidency in 1912
Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote, giving the win to…

24. President:
President Woodrow Wilson

25. Woodrow Wilson Wilson believed in “New Freedom” Major Actions:
Encourage competition, eliminate special privileges, tame big business
Major Actions:
16th Amendment gave Congress the power to tax income
Federal Reserve Act regulated the amount of money in circulation
Clayton Anti-Trust Act helped give workers more rights

26. Women’s Suffrage
Women had been fighting for suffrage (the right to vote) since the founding of the country
Abigail Adams’ letter to husband John
Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
Abolitionist Movement
Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and others fought for suffrage
19th Amendment passed in 1920 giving women the right to vote!

28. Crash Course
Crash Course