1. SSUSH 13
The student will identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.
Explain Upton Sinclair ’s The Jungle and federal oversight of the meatpacking industry.
Identify Jane Addams and Hull House and describe the role of women in reform movements.
Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, and the emergence of the NAACP.
Explain Ida Tarbell’s role as a Muckraker.
Describe the significance of progressive reforms such as the initiative, recall, and referendum, direct election of senators, reforms of labor laws; and efforts to improve living conditions for the poor in cities.
Describe the conservation movement and the development of national parks and forests; include the role of Theodore Roosevelt.

2. Progressive Era Progressive Era – 1880s to 1920
One of a long line of Reform Movements in American History – First Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening
women's rights /temperance movement first issues of Progressives
Effects of Industrial Revolution issues
Unsafe working conditions in factories
Slum areas, ethnic ghettoes around factories
Child labor abuses
Farmer’s movement
Progressives sought policies to help farmers
declining importance of rural areas due to increasingly urbanized America

3. Progressive Era Muckrakers
Investigative journalists or authors who exposed public to problems in American society
Books, articles, pictures moved federal, state, and local governments to enact laws and regulations
Three main goals of Progressives
remove corruption from government through laws against political machines
include more people in the political process
promote belief that government must play a role to solve social problems

4. Progressive Era Success of Progressives Failure of Progressives
Federal Laws
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
State and Local Progressive Reforms
Initiatives, referendums, recalls
New forms of local governments
Failure of Progressives
needs of blacks and Native Americans ignored

5. Upton Sinclair
One of the most famous Muckrakers of the Progressive Era
Wrote famous book - The Jungle
Sickened and angered Americans
Public outrage led to two federal laws
Meatpacking Act
Pure Food and Drug Act.

6. Hull House Five hundred settlements nationally by 1920.
Jane Addams co-founder Hull House 1889
Chicago's first nation's most influential settlement house
13-building complex covering a city block
gymnasium, theater, art gallery, music school, boys' club
auditorium, cafeteria, cooperative residence for working women
kindergarten, nursery, libraries, post office, meeting and club rooms
art studios, kitchen, dining room and apartments for the residential staff.
Offered extensive social, educational, and artistic programs
Five hundred settlements nationally by 1920.
Forerunner to community centers and social services work

7. Jim Crow Caricature black man = Jim Crow Thomas D. "Daddy" Rice
white musician/actor - blackened face
sang danced in a prejudiced/stereotyped manner
Sang song titled "Jim Crow“ most popular 1829
Jim Crow act in every traveling minstrel show
Prepared way for “Jim Crow” segregation laws
Laws designed to humiliate African-Americans
Laws denying social, economic, political rights

8. Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson
Doctrine of “separate but equal” ruled constitutional
encouraged the passage of Jim Crow laws in South
Set back black rights gained during Reconstruction.
de jure racial segregation in public facilities
states could prohibit the use of public facilities by African Americans.
Trains, buses, public restrooms, restaurants
hotels, theaters, public parks
Public schools, hospitals
Facilities separate but never equal to those for whites

9. NAACP
Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, and the emergence of the NAACP.

10. Muckraker
Explain Ida Tarbell’s role as a Muckraker.

11. Ida Tarbell
Explain Ida Tarbell’s role as a Muckraker.

12. Progressive Reforms
Describe the significance of progressive reforms such as the initiative, recall, and referendum, direct election of senators, reforms of labor laws; and efforts to improve living conditions for the poor in cities.

13. Teddy Roosevelt
Describe the conservation movement and the development of national parks and forests; include the role of Theodore Roosevelt.

14. Teddy Roosevelt
Describe the conservation movement and the development of national parks and forests; include the role of Theodore Roosevelt.

15. Teddy Roosevelt
Describe the conservation movement and the development of national parks and forests; include the role of Theodore Roosevelt.