1. The Progressive Era
Moving Forward!

2. Progressive Movement
Protect social welfare – living/working conditions (women and children)
Promoting moral improvement
Ex: Prohibition – banning alcohol
Economic Reform – changing the way we do business
Muckrakers – writers who wrote about the corruption of business
Efficiency – using all of your resources properly

3. Question
What do all of these goals on the previous slide have in common? Create one goal for the Progressive Movement that would sum all of those up.

4. Henry Ford Ford Motor Company Model-T Assembly line – mass production
Wanted cars to be something everyone could have
Treated workers well - $5 a day, 8 hour work day
Question – What freedoms do cars allow us to have? Why do you want a car some day?

7. Progressive Women Higher education – all women’s colleges
Suffrage – right to vote
Susan B. Anthony
In 1919 the 19th Amendment was passed allowing women to vote
Question – Do you think it is important to allow all people to vote? Why/why not? Explain.

9. Rise of Roosevelt Tough Guy – “Rough Rider”
With a soft side “Teddy Bear”
Modern President – always in the news
“Square Deal” – wanted the average American to be treated fairly

11. More Progressive Regulation
Meat Inspection Act – clean and good quality
Pure Food and Drug Act – accurate labels
Conservation – preserving wilderness areas.
Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” exposes the reality of the meat packing industry