1. Progressivism

2. What was Progressivism?
Jacob Riss’s How the Other Half Lives
Progressives wanted gov’t to be more honest and responsible for people’s needs
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

3. Pictures

4. Get R Done Muckrakers- Exposed the filth of society (Journalists)
Ida Tarbell attacks Rockefeller in McClure’s Magazine
Lincoln Steffens exposed the corruption of city governments in The Story of California.- About the Rail Road Monopoly

5. Road to a healthier Environment
With the growth of cities, there was an increasing number of services to provided, i.e. trash pickup and police
Housing Reforms began in NYC.
The Tenement Act of 1901 forced landlords to install lighting in public hallways and to provide one toilet for every two families.

6. The Fight for Rights
Du Bois, Jane Addams, Ida Wells- Barnett, etc. formed the NAACP.
Fights for the rights of African Americans
1913, fought against the film Birth of a Nation The NAACP organizes a nationwide protest D.W. Griffiths racially- inflammatory and bigoted silent film, "Birth of a Nation."
Sigmund Livingston- Formed the Anti-Defamation League to fight anti- Semitism.

7. Florence Kelly formed the National Child Labor Committee and worked for limiting work days.
In 1900, about 40 percent of working class families lived in poverty.
Minimum wage would not be passed until 1938.

8. Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Fire! More than 140 women and men died. (1911)‏
NY then passed fire codes.

9. City Government Reforms
Tom Johnson of Cleveland Ohio reformed rules for police, released debtors from prison, and supported a fairer tax system.
What type of reform has happened in your community?

10. Election Reforms Push for Direct Primary
Seventeenth Amendment- Votes now had power to directly elect their U.S. senators.
Secret Ballot.
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11. Terms to know
An initiative allows voters to put a proposed low on the ballot for public approval.
The referendum allows citizens to place a recently passed law on the ballot, reject or pass law.
The recall enables citizens to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election.