1. Aim: Review for Test on Progressives
Bring a #2 pencil and a pen.
Essay Topic: TWO Progressives and their impact

2. 1. Goals of the Progressives
Reform government
Regulate big business
Improve working conditions
Better housing and medical care for the poor.
Stop political corruption

3. 2. Why need for reform?
Poor living conditions- unsanitary tenement houses.
Children dying from disease.
Lack of labor laws.
Unfair business practices
Corruption in municipal government.
Need for greater representation.

4. 3. Muckrakers
Muckrakers- journalists who reported on social injustices.
Upton Sinclair-The Jungle, Ida Tarbell- History of the Standard Oil Company, Jacob Riis-How The Other Half Lives, Lincoln Steffens-The Shame of The Cities.
Progressives: Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, WEB DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Jane Addams.

5. 4. The Jungle
Upton Sinclair exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry which resulted in the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food Act.
Led to creation of FDA (Food and Drug Administration).

6. 5. Changes brought about
Teddy Roosevelt- Conservation, Meat Inspection Act, Trust Busting.
Woodrow Wilson- Underwood Tariff, Graduated Income Tax, amendments.
Jane Addams- created a settlement house- Hull House.

7. 6. Roosevelt
Nickname- “The Trustbuster.” Broke up monopolies and trusts.
Coal Strike- forced the owners to negotiate to avoid a winter without coal.
Set aside public land for parks.

8. 7. Wilson Underwood Tariff- decreased the amount of taxes by 25%.
Regulated the railroads
Prohibition- “The Noble Experiment.”
19th Amendment- Women’s suffrage.
Created the Federal Reserve- regulate the amount of money in circulation.
Graduated income tax

9. 8. Settlement House Built in inner cities to provide services.
Education programs
Health care
Social activities.

10. 9. Characteristics Change/ reform
Concern for people- particularly the poor and working class (inner cities).
Reform government- correct abuses.

11. 10. Results
Changes in government: recall, referendum, initiative, secret ballot.
Labor laws
NAACP
FDA
Settlement Houses

12. 11 A. Teddy Roosevelt
Created Interstate Commerce Commission- regulate trade.
Broke up power of large corporations.
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act as a result of The Jungle.
Conservationist- created 5 national parks, set aside 150 acres of forests, created the U.S. Forest Service.

13. 11 B. Susan B. Anthony First area of reform- Temperance Movement.
Felt women and children suffered abuse from alcoholic husbands.
Became part of anti-slavery movement.
1872- Demanded women be given same civil and political rights as men.
19th amendment- women’s suffrage.

14. 11. C. Jane Addams Founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889.
Provided services to immigrants.
Provided kindergarten and daycare facilities for working mothers.
Music and art classes.
A library and a museum.

15. 11 D. Booker T. Washington Equal rights for blacks.
Believed that the way out of poverty for blacks was hard work through trades (vocational education).
Purchase land and then political and civil rights would follow.
Focus on education and economic growth.
Opposed by WEB DuBois (favored college education).