1. Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin Governor 1900-06
1920
“State-level Populist Reforms”
Direct primary
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Direct democracy
Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin Governor

2. ** Read pages 394, “The Impact of Muckrakers” to
1900
1920
** Read pages 394, “The Impact of Muckrakers” to
396, “Progressive-Era Issues Affecting Children”
(1) What did the “muckrakers” do, and what did the nickname mean?
(2) What was the major book publication for each of Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Theodore Dreiser, and Upton Sinclair?
(3) Social Gospel Movement …
(4) Jane Addams and Hull House …

3. ** “The Progressive Era” – 1900-1920 = Reforming Society

4. Origins of Progressivism
“Muckrakers”
Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Ida Tarbell – The History of the Standard Oil Co. (1902)
Lincoln Steffens – The Shame of the Cities (1904)
Ida Tarbell
Wadsworth.com;
Lincoln Steffens

5. Regulating Food and Drugs
Why the reform?
- Selections from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
“These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together.”
“[The] old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white – it would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped, and made over again for home consumption.”
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography

6. Socialism? Meat Inspection Act (1906) Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Federal Inspection of Meat-packing plants & standards of cleanliness
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Prohibited sale of impure drugs
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography
Socialism?

7. Settlement Houses Hull House became the standard for the movement.
By 1920, 500 settlement houses nationally
Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, the first American female to win the award.

8. Finish Video “Beginning of Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidency”
Resume 20:00

9. The “Bully Pulpit” Trust-buster
Northern Securities holding company (1902)
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography

10. George F. Baer
“Coal mining is a business, not a religious, sentimental, or academic proposition. The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for not by the labor agitators but by the Christian men to whom God, in his infinite wisdom, has given control of the property interests of the country.” --- George F. Baer

11. 1902 Coal Strike & arbitration
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography

12. “The Alice Problem …”
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography

13. The Teddy Bear Incident …
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography

14. 1902 – Newlands Reclamation Act 1903 – Panama intervention
1905 – Treaty of Portsmouth
– settling Russo-
Japanese War
Nobel Peace Prize
1906 – Hepburn Act
Strengthens the I.C.C.
** Eliminated bribery used by railroads
Orman Dam, 1911
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography

15. Socialism? National Forest Service (1905) Antiquities Act (1906)
Managing forest resources
Antiquities Act (1906)
Protecting lands of historical & scientific interest and prehistoric lands
Gives the president “nearly-unfettered discretion”
Socialism?
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography

16. Socialism? Other protected habitats - 5 national parks
- 18 national monuments
- 150 National Forests
- 51 bird sanctuaries
- 4 game refuges
- 230 million acres preserved
Wadsworth.com (portrait and on horseback); Underwood and Underwood. Theodore Roosevelt Addressing a Crowd, Collection of The New-York Historical Society. PBS- American Photography

17. CONSERVATION: National Parks and Forests
Faragher, Out of Many, 3rd Ed.;