1. The Progressive Era 1890-1920

2. Definition of Progressive Era Time period (1890-1920) when efforts were made to reform or eliminate many social problems. ◦Economic Reform  Regulate business, improve working conditions, consumer protection ◦Social Reform  education, women’s suffrage ◦Political Reform  government accountable to the people ◦Environmental Reform  Protect the environment from industry

3. Economic Reform (Regulate trade) Sherman Anti-Trust Act Break up monopolies -monopolies were unfair and not in the best interest of the American people -Theodore Roosevelt was known as the “trust buster” What does this political cartoon say about monopolies and the men who controlled them?

4. Economic Reform (Consumer protection) Pure Food and Drug Act Meat Inspection Act “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair ◦Exposed the appalling working conditions in meat packing facilities ◦Led to federal food safety laws

5. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair As you listen to this segment from The Jungle, think about the following questions: What is in the sausage? How is the workplace unsanitary? Would people eat this sausage if they knew how it was made?

6. Economic Reform (Improve working conditions) Workplace and Labor reforms: ◦8 hour workday ◦Improve safety conditions ◦Minimum wage ◦Unionization ◦Child labor laws

7. Tragedy leads to safer working conditions Triangular Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25, 1911 145 workers burned to death Deaths were preventable: ◦Locked doors ◦Neglected safety features

8. Social Reform Goal-Protection and expansion of individual rights. Women’s Suffrage

9. Seneca Falls Convention (1848) ◦1 st national meeting for women’s rights  Susan B. Anthony  Elizabeth Cady Stanton 19th Amendment: -women can vote (1920)

10. Political Reform End corruption ◦Politicians taking bribes  Boss Tweed in NYC People elect their senators (not the state legislatures) ◦17 th amendment Boss Tweed

11. Environmental Reform President Theodore Roosevelt is known as the “conservationist President” Established the Forest Service in 1906 5 National Parks Protected 230 million acres of public land