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1 19-1 The Progressive Era

2 Strike (labor related)
Warm up: Define!! Red: YU41069 Yellow: WZ70538 Green: NE00818 Blue: YQ03095 Unions Monopolies Trustbusters Strike (labor related)

3 Background: Life in the Cities
No clean water Sewage systems Tenements Ventilation & fire codes Tuberculosis & disease Long work days Unsafe work conditions Child Labor

4 Target of Progressivism
Reaction to “extremes” of modern life Urbanization (living conditions) Labor conflicts (strikes, working conditions) Immigration Environmental issues Social “problems”

5 Fighting Corruption Muckrakers exposed the issues in society
Due to these conditions many Americans called for reform in the late 1800s Problem was corrupt governments slowed progress 1) Spoils System – Define!! To stop corruption with railroad prices the Interstate Commerce Act was passed to regulate prices 2) 17th Amendment allowed direct election of senators… Why?

6 Labor Strikes and Unions
Unions were organized to help fight for working conditions and wages. They would negotiate contracts. Many workers and unions became fed up with working conditions and lack of negotiations so they went on strike. United Mine Workers strike 1902 Coal supplies got so low Roosevelt had to get involved to settle the dispute Homestead Strike (Carnegie Steel) Turned violent when Frick tried to use armed forces to clear Union workers out to make room for “strike breakers” or non union workers

7 Primary Source Analysis
Homestead Strike 3) Read the 2 different opinions of the Homestead strikes Quickcode: Answer: How are Goldman and Frick’s claims about the Homestead strike different? Whose claim is more believable? Why? Primary Source Analysis

8 The Temperance Crusade
Temperance was a movement to ban alcohol Protestant Churches strongly supported this movement The 2 driving forces in this anti-alcohol movement were: Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Anti-Saloon League The movement gained so much momentum that in 1919 the 18th amendment was ratified banning the make, transport or sale of alcohol The effects of the 18th amendment are still felt today as it created organized crime groups to transport and sell alcohol as well as bootleg liquor operations

9 Women in the Progressive Era
The fight for suffrage was on with the help of many key women Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Paul Stanton and Anthony started the National Woman Suffrage Association Groups opposed suffrage saying it would disrupt society’s “natural” balance and lead to divorce and neglected children Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote in 1890. By states allowed women full voting rights In 1920 women finally won the right to vote with the ratifying of the 19th amendment

10 Woman’s Suffrage Examine 4) Examine this map of suffrage before the 19th amendment. What do you notice about woman’s voting rights? Any thoughts on why it is like this?

11 Woman’s Suffrage: School House Rock!
Video Watch the video 5) Answer on goformative: 19th Amendment was passed when and did what? Draw!!!

12 Standard Oil Stop and Jot
6) What is this picture showing? What do you think the author’s opinion of Standard Oil was?

13 Trust Busting Large companies called monopolies controlled entire segments of the government (banking, railroads, oil) Trust busting targeted these corporations Sherman Anti Trust Act Outlawed monopolistic business practices- passed to break up monopolies In order to create competition and fair prices companies such as Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were broken into many smaller companies. (Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, etc…) Still today we have laws that prevent monopolies from existing Example: Merger of AT&T and T-Mobile

14 Teddy Roosevelt In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt ran promising people a “square deal” Fair and equal treatment for all Call for regulation contrasted “laissez-faire (let the people do as they choose) Supported Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts Proposed U.S. Forest Service- creating the first national parks! Often called first environmental president

15 Teddy Roosevelt Watch the video
7) Record 5 facts about President Roosevelt on goformative

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