1. The Progressive Movement!

2. Quick Write
What does it mean to be “progressive” and why was the era of the early 1900’s considered a “progressive movement?”

4. Thomas Nast

5. The Progressive Movement
Was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century.
The frontier had been tamed, great cities and businesses developed, and an overseas empire established, but not all citizens shared in the wealth, prestige, and optimism.

6. Four Goals of Progressivism
Protecting Social Welfare
Promoting Moral Improvement
Creating Economic Reform
Fostering Efficiency

7. Segregation & Discrimination

8. Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case Decided in May 18, 1896

10. What does this mean “Separate but Equal”?

13. Jim Crow Laws In a bid to stop black Americans from being equal, the
southern states passed a series of laws known as Jim Crow
laws which discriminated against blacks and made sure that
they were segregated (treated unequally) from whites.
Jim Crow was a character in an old
song who was revived by a white
comedian called Daddy Rice. Rice
used the character to make fun of
black people and the way that they
spoke. The term Jim Crow came to be
used as an insult against black people.

17. Brown v. Board of Education
It wouldn’t be until 1954 that the Supreme Court would begin to overturn the Plessy Case.
The Supreme Court said that separate-but-equal was unconstitutional in public education
But it didn’t completely overturn the separate-but-equal doctrine.

19. Expanding Public Education
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois

20. Triangle Shirtwaist Company

21. What are muckrakers? How did muckrakers help the progressive movement/era?

22. Muckrakers
Journalist who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century
Upton Sinclair The Jungle (p.204)
P.S. & Video

23. Quick Write
Why were political reforms, school reforms, and assistance for the working class deemed necessary to improve life in American cities? Which were the most beneficial? Were some harmful?

24. Jacob Riis

29. Other Areas of Focus for Progressives
We’re concerned about the workers and the industrial businesses, but what about women now in our society?
Who cares about women’s rights, they’re inferior to men, right? so why care? or should they be considered as equal in society?

31. Women in the Public Life
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Stanton

39. Carrie Nation
Carry Nation

41. Federal Government
What is the Federal government to do?

42. Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Rider

45. Gifford Pinchot
“The American people have evidently made up their minds that our natural resources must be conserved. That is good. But it settles only half the question. For whose benefit shall they be conserved—for the benefit of the many, or for the use and profit of the few? … There is no other question before us that begins to be so important, or that will be so difficult to straddle, as the great question between special interest and equal opportunity, between the privileges of the few and the rights of the many, between government by men for human welfare and government by money for profit.” The fight for conservation

47. Corollary (Monroe Doctrine) - Dollar Diplomacy (Taft) - Panama Canal - Square Deal - Trustbusting (Sherman Act) Coal Strike - Railroad Regulations -Health (FDA) - Environment & etc….

48. Speak Softly & Carry A Big Stick
“There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a toughly efficient navy, the Munroe Doctrine will go far.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1903)

49. The Square Deal
Increase in Federal Power and ended Laissez Faire. (Result of Roosevelt's belief in "Noblesse Oblige.")
"Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.“ --New York State Fair, Syracuse September 7, 1903

50. The actions of the muckrakers and a newly active middle class were heard by the then Vice President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. When the President, a very conservative William McKinley was assassinated, Roosevelt became President. Roosevelt was the son of a wealthy old money family. He was involved in government from when he was very young. It was his belief that the wealthy had an obligation to serve.

59. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

60. Presidential Profiles: Theodore Roosevelt

61. Timeline: Spanish American War to the Entry of WWI
Within your textbooks, between Chapter 19 and 20 you will create a timeline highlighting all of the major Social, Political, and Economic events that occurred between the end of the Spanish American War and the United States getting involved in WWI.
In a sentence or two briefly describe the event (i.e. 1906, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was a book that dramatically changed the working conditions and quality of our foods with its detailed accounts of Durham’s Meat Packing Industry.)

62. Timeline: Spanish American War to the Entry of WWI
After completing the Timeline you and your partner will share two events that you thought were most significant to the development of the United States to the class. Make sure to explain why these two events were so significant.