1. Economic Reforms

2. Daily Quiz OBJECTIVES Define “collective bargaining”
☐ I can identify rights factory workers earned through unionization.
☐ I can compare/contrast different strategies used to fight big business corruption.
☐ I can understand different methods the government used to break up trusts.
☐ I can explain the reasoning for the 18th amendment and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Daily Quiz
Define “collective bargaining”
Why are labor unions a tool that would be used by progressives? (In other words, what were progressives trying to accomplish and how did labor unions help them get there)

3. Periodization Read the quote and answer question 1 on your note sheet
What are some examples of time periods in history?
Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Why do historians divide history into clearly defined periods?

4. Story Time!!!

5. Periodization
Complete questions 2 and 3 on your note sheet, making sure to complete the 3 tasks above

6. The Jungle http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=h2ppaJwQ9UM Upton Sinclair
Wrote The Jungle
Exposed the unsanitary meat-packing industry
Exposed harsh working conditions too

9. “The Jungle” Read the excerpt from “The Jungle”
Answer the questions associated with the text

10. Meat Inspection Act (1906)
A United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold
Mandatory inspection of livestock before slaughter (cattle, sheep, goats, equines, and swine);
Mandatory postmortem inspection of every carcass;
Sanitary standards established for slaughterhouses and meat processing plants; and
Authorized U.S. Department of Agriculture ongoing monitoring and inspection of slaughter and processing operations

11. Pure Food and Drug Act Also passed in 1906
Its purpose was to stop the trafficking of mislabeled food and drugs
Had to list the active ingredient on the label of all drugs

12. Worker Protection Laws
The Supreme Court in the early 1900s fought against regulations that forced businesses to do things
What policy does this support?
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) – Established minimum wage, prohibited child labor, and created the right to overtime pay for work over forty hours a week
Minimum wage was .25 an hour (roughly 5 dollars)

13. Big Business Issues
Trusts- a legal arrangement that allows one person to manage another person’s property.
Trustee- The person who manages that property
Allowed one person to manage all the assets in a given industry

14. The Trust Buster
Trustbusting – Breaking up large companies that control an entire industry
Ex. Oil, shipping, etc.
Made those companies look bad to Americans
Theodore Roosevelt – President who took it upon himself to break up trusts
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15. Congressional Legislation
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
First act passed by Congress to prevent monopolies and trusts.
Prohibits monopolistic activity and allows the government to investigate companies
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
Re-enforced the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and also aided labor unions in their efforts to protect workers.

16. Roosevelt Speech
You will read the speech given by Roosevelt where he talks about the state of business in America
Underline the things that he thinks are good, and put a box around the things that he thinks are bad
Then, before you can leave…

17. Exit slip! Answer these questions from the Roosevelt speech:
Does Roosevelt think the growth of industry is good or bad for America? How do you know (quote)?
What does Roosevelt mean when he says “Publicity is the only sure remedy which we can now invoke [to limit trusts]?”