1. Problem: Destroying the Environment
Industries overuse the land
Ranching, logging, bonanza wheat farming- soil depletion
Extracting natural resources
Mining, oil drilling
Pollution
Coal dust - air
Waste disposal - water

2. Destroying the Environment: Solution
Conservation movement
Teddy! And John Muir
National parks
Regulations

4. Problem: Unsafe Products
Ingredients?!?
Medicines
Unclean Food
Unsanitary Conditions

5. Unsafe Products: Solution
Meatpacking – Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Ingredients lists, and warning labels

6. Problem: Corruption in Government
Political Machines
Bribery, favoritism
Buying Elections
Inefficient/wasteful
Patronage

7. Corruption in Government: Solution
Taylorism – efficiency (like the assembly line)
Departments to mange specific issues
Robert La Follett – primaries for candidates
Citizen participation
Recalls, referendums, initiatives, secret ballot
Pendleton Act
Jobs given to candidates based on merit not favors
17th Amendment to the Constitution – direct election of senators