1. The Progressive Movement Roots of the Progressive Movement
We will evaluate the impact of Progressive Era Reforms, evaluate the impact of muckrakers and reform leaders on American society, and identify the contributions of women such as Jane Addams to American society.
I will research Progressive Era leaders in preparation for a speed dating game.
Progressive Era:
Progressive Movement
Goal
Roots of the Progressive Movement
Social Gospel Movement
Socialism
Muckrakers
Famous Muckrakers
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Frank Norris
Upton Sinclair

2. Direct Party Primaries
Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle portrayed the new industrial economy as inhumane, destructive, and uncaring. One scene in the book described piles of rat-infested, rotting meat being used to make sausages:
“[T]he meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage.”
How might a reader in 1906 react to this passage? Explain your answer.
Social Reformers
Jane Addams
Hull House
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Municipal Government
Initiative
Robert LaFolette
Referendum
Government Reforms
Secret
Ballot
Recall
Direct Party Primaries
17th Amendment
Social Legislation
State Laws
Civil Service Reform
Spoils System
Pendleton Act