1. Progressive Reformers X-Ray Poster & Gallery Walk
The American Industrial Revolution

2. Pair-Share
What were the most important issues facing American society during the Industrial Revolution? What would be some possible remedies for these problems?

3. STANDARD
Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children's Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson).

4. Objective
Students will be able to Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives by creating an X-Ray Poster and completing a Gallery Walk.

5. Progressive Reformers
Many people during the Industrial Revolution wanted to make society better. These people were called Progressive Reformers. In this lesson you will learn about several progressives and examine their significant contributions.

8. Grading Rubric 4 Awesome 3 Acceptable 2 Minimal 1 Unacceptable  
4 Awesome
3 Acceptable
2 Minimal
1 Unacceptable
Content: All assigned content is included and is accurate.
Design: Logical and easy to read; layout complements
content. All directions were followed.
Visual Appeal: Illustration looks similar to leader. Pleasing use of color, shapes and symbols

9. Example
Flap
Information from
stomach

10. Gallery Walk
When you have finished your x-ray poster, post it on the wall – two feet from other posters.
Walk around the room viewing all the posters of the progressive reformers and complete the worksheet: Progressive Reformers Chart.

12. Important Dates
Test Unit 2/Packet Due – Thursday
Benchmark = Friday

13. Wrap-Up

14. Hiram Johnson What he did Significance
helped form the Progressive Party
initiative
referendum
recall
direct primary election
eight-hour work day for women and children
Workers Compensation Act pensions for retired teachers
more government control of the railroads and utilities.
Significance
reform governor of California (1911–17)
U.S. senator for 28 years (1917–45 )
Progressive Republican
isolationist

15. Ida M. Tarbell What she did
Exposed the ruthless business tactics of The Standard Oil Company
Significance
Muckraker – wrote for McClure’s Magazine
The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904).

16. Theodore Roosevelt 26th President
What he did
expanded the powers of the presidency
Increased government control over big railroad, oil, and meatpacking "trusts."
Conserved land
"Square Deal" domestic program: welfare legislation and government regulation
Significance
26th president of the United States (1901–09)
writer
naturalist
Soldier
first environmentalist

17. William Howard Taft 27th President
What he did
Sixteenth Amendment (income tax)
Seventeenth Amendment (direct election of senators)
Significance
27th President of the United States ( )
known as the "Great Trust-Buster."

18. Woodrow Wilson 28th president
What he did
Federal power to ensure equality of opportunity
tariff reduction
reform of the banking and monetary system
new laws to weaken abusive corporations and restore economic competition
Federal Reserve Act of 1913:regulates the nation's banks, credit, and money supply
Significance
President
Viewed monopolies as enemies of competition
supported unions

19. Jane Addams What she did Significance Creator of Hull House
A charity organization for the poor
Worked toward establishing:
first juvenile-court law,
tenement-house regulation,
eight-hour working day for women,
factory inspection,
workers' compensation
Woman suffrage
Significance
American social reformer and pacifist.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace 1931

20. Upton Sinclair What he did Significance Wrote the book The Jungle
Revealed the dangerous and unsanitary conditions in a slaughterhouse
Pure Food and Drug Act was passed
organized the EPIC (End Poverty in California) socialist reform movement;
Significance
Muckraker
defeated as Democratic candidate for governor

21. Jacob Riis Significance What he did
Wrote a book, How the Other Half Lives
Showed the extreme poverty of working class
Significance
Photographer; took picture of poor living conditions

22. William Edward B. Du Bois
What he did
Created the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights
Significance
American sociologist
most important black protest leader

23. John Muir What he did Helped to pass the Yosemite national Park Bill
Helped to get the government to conserve land (148 million acres of forests & # of national parks doubles in the U.S. (Roosevelt)
Significance
Environmentalist

24. Robert La Follette What he did Fought to clean up political corruption
voters election of candidates
Tax property owned by corporations
Regulation of RR rates
Creation of commission to regulate businesses
Significance
Attorney General
U.S. House member
1901 Governor of Wisconsin

25. Wrap Up Discussion
What do you think was the most significant reform of the Progressive Era?