1. Chapter 2 – Social Reform Movement of the early-mid 1800’s Temperance, Prison & Mentally ill, Education, Women’s Rights, Abolition Chapter 5 – Industrialization Laissez-Faire, Pro-business & Anti-union Chapter 6 – Gilded Age Immigration and Industrialization led to rise in poverty. How do we solve?

2. Chapter 8 The Progressive Movement A time when many Americans tried to improve society.

3. Who were the Progressives? Democrats and Republicans Educated Middle Class Journalists Social Workers Educators Politicians Clergy

4. The Muckrakers Investigative journalists who single-mindedly scraped up the filth on the ground, ignoring everything else. They were obsessed with scandal and corruption.

5. Progressive Movement Issues: Food Safety

6. The Jungle “There would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white – it would be dosed with borax (bleach) and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption…There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about (upon) it.”

7. Progressive Movement Issues: Women’s Suffrage

8. Progressive Movement Issues: Prohibition

9. Progressive Movement Issues: Child Labor

10. The Progressive Issues: Big Business

11. The Progressive Issues: Health and Safety Codes

12. Create Your Own Progressive Political Cartoon Choose one of the issues Progressives wanted to improve: Government, Big Business, Alcohol Consumption, Child Labor, Women’s Suffrage, Food and Medicine Safety, Health and Safety Codes. Read more about it in Chapter 8. Create a political cartoon from the perspective of a Progressive. You want to illustrate the problem in a way that convinces people that it needs to be fixed. Your cartoon should have a title and it should use a combination of symbolism, stereotypes, exaggerations, and opinions. Don’t make the point of your cartoon too easy to understand, make the viewer think about the message you are sending.

14. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson The Progressive Presidents Assignment