1. The Progressive Movement
When?
Late 1800s & Early 1900s
United States!
Reforming (changing) the U.S.
Cities were crowded, leaders were unethical, and people were not enjoying the quality of life they deserved.
Where?
What?
Why?

2. The Progressive Movement
Think of
P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S
All sorts of people experienced
progress during the Progressive
Movement

3. Political leaders made positive changes
How was progress made?
Muckrakers “dug up the dirt” on problems and exposed their findings to the public…usually in writing
Political leaders made positive changes

4. Dirty, pollution, disease Crime Corrupt leaders
City Problems
Dirty, pollution, disease
Crime
Corrupt leaders
Poor sanitation and water
Slums, tenements
Dangerous Living Conditions

5. Building Codes improved living conditions
Solutions
Building Codes improved living conditions
Garbage Collect, Water systems improved sanitation and cleaned up the cities
Fire Department
Street Lights
Zoning Laws moved factories away from apartments

6. Jane Addams & Hull House Settlement Houses Salvation Army YMHA, YMCA
Helping the Poor
Jane Addams & Hull House
Settlement Houses
Salvation Army
YMHA, YMCA

7. Patterns of City Settlement City Center Slums Tenements
Rural Countryside
Suburbs
City Center Slums Tenements
Factories

8. Actions taken to bring about reform
Muckrakers
Dig up the dirt!
Problem / Issue
Life in slums and tenements
Temperance Movement (ban alcohol because of abuse)
Food Packing Industry’s unsanitary conditions
Reforming City Governments
-Bosses ruled cities
Power of Big Business
Individual
Jacob Riis
Carry Nation
Upton Sinclair
Thomas Nast
Ida Tarbell
Actions taken to bring about reform
“How the Other Half Lives” – book & photos
Destroyed alcohol with a hatchet
Wrote The Jungle, exposed poor conditions
Political cartoons showed corruption
Wrote about Standard Oil bad business practices
Results
Improved conditions of tenements
18th Amendment (outlaws sale of alcohol)
Meat Inspection Act 1906, Pure Food and Drug Act
Bosses Jailed
U.S. Gov’t started to “bust up” monopolies

9.
President Roosevelt had to clean up the meat scandal by creating the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906

10. Theodore Roosevelt
Trustbuster!
Environmental Conservation
Supported workers
Food/Drug Laws

11. Social Changes
NAACP –National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – organization created to monitor and protect the rights of African Americans
Square Deal – Pres. Theodore Roosevelt’s idea that everyone should have an opportunity to succeed – regardless of wealth

12. *more successful than the Sherman Antitrust Act
Economic Changes
Interstate Commerce Act – regulated business practices that crossed state lines
*more successful than the Sherman Antitrust Act
Federal Trade Commission – investigated businesses suspected of using unfair practices

13. Political Changes
19th Amendment – Women’s Suffrage
18th Amendment – Ban on Alcohol
16th Amendment – Income tax based on
salary
Take-down of political bosses (Tweed)
Civil Service Commission – hires by merit rather than connections
National Parks
Food & Drug Laws

14. The rest of the slides are
Vocabulary Practice
The rest of the slides are
practice vocabulary.
Quiz yourself!

15. 18th Amendment

16. 1919-
Made the
manufacture and
sale of alcoholic
beverages illegal.

17. Temperance Movement

18. People who organized in order to create a ban on alcohol.
-Carry Nation
-Francis Willard
-Women’s Christian Temperance Union

19. 19th Amendment

20. 1920-
Guaranteed the
right to vote
regardless of sex
(women can vote)

21. Jane
Addams

22. Founder of Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house for the poor.

23. Reform

24. To change or improve

25. Progressives

26. Nickname for people who worked for change during the Progressive Movement

27. Urbanization

28. The movement of people from rural areas (like the country) to cities

29. Settlement
House

30. Building in a poor or ethnic neighborhood that offered services, education, and activities.

31. Hull House

32. Settlement House in Chicago opened by Jane Addams

33. Civil Service Reform

34. Changed in gov’t hiring process that focused on merit rather than connections.

35. Muckraker

36. Journalists who tried to improve society through their investigative reporting and photography. Exposed health conditions, corruption in government, and social problems.

37. Conservation

38. The preservation of natural resources

39. The Jungle

40. Book by Upton Sinclair which exposed the abuses of the meat packing industry

41. Meat Inspection Act

42. 1906 Law passed as a result of Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle
1906 Law passed as a result of Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle. Authorized the inspection of all meat products shipped in interstate commerce (from state to state)

43. NAACP

44. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

45. Progressive Movement

46. Time of reform, generally centered in urban areas.

47. Prohibition

48. The ban on alcoholic beverages in the U.S. after the 18th Amendment

49. Pure Food and Drug Act

50. 1906 Law-
Forbidding the manufacture and sale of dishonestly labeled product: All products must have ingredients listed

51. Sherman Antitrust Act

52. Prohibited monopolies
1890 Law –
Prohibited monopolies

53. Interstate Commerce Act

54. Law that monitored railroads in order to restrict unfair business practices

55. Social
Activist

56. Individuals who protest and defend individual rights.
Ex. Jane Addams

57. Square
Deal

58. President Theodore Roosevelt’s idea that all people should have an opportunity to succeed in the U.S.

59. Tenement

60. Overcrowded apartment building in a city slum

61. Suffrage

62. The right to vote