1. FIRST 5 READ THE POEM AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW THEN RE-READ THE POEM

2. FIRST 5 GET HOMEWORK OUT OPEN TEXT BOOK TO PAGE 532-533 –READ THE INTRODUCTION AND THE SELECTION ON LINCOLN STEFFENS –THEN ANSWER THE 1 QUESTION ON PAGE 533 –7760115680

3. The Rose That Grew From Concrete Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet. Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.

4. The Progressive Era Main Goals of Progressivism: ( How to fix American society) –Goal 1: Protect Social Welfare –Goal 2: Promote Moral Improvements –Goal 3: Create Economic Reform –Goal 4: Fostering Efficiency

5. Goal 1: Social Welfare Fix the workplace and living conditions –Social Gospel and Settlement Movement »Jane Addams and others inspire new ideas YMCA- Young Men’s Christian Association –Funded libraries, classes –Built swimming pools & Handball courts Salvation Army –Fed poor people –Cared for children Florence Kelley- –Helped win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893 »Prohibited child labor

6. Goal 2: Promote Moral Improvements Fix the way people act and live (Morals) –Want immigrants and city dwellers to fix their lives WCTU- Woman’s Christian Temperance Movement –Prohibition- ban alcohol »Went into saloons; would sing, pray, beak bottles »Provide education for immigrants

7. Goal 3: Create Economic Reform Fix Economy  People think capitalism is wrong  big business & Gov’t to wealthy –Eugene Debs forms the American Socialist Party Muckrakers begin to write about corruption in big business –Ida Tarbell – “History of the Standard Oil Company” »Exposed cutthroat methods of Oil Co. –Upton Sinclair- “The Jungle” »Exposed the problems in the Meat Packing Plants

8. Goal 4: Fostering Efficiency Make work and life more efficient  well run, better –Henry Ford Invents and maximizes the ASSEMBLY LINE –He pays his workers $5 a day –Introduced five, eight hour work days »Keeps employees HAPPY

9. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM ECONOMIC –Teddy Roosevelt introduces Square Deal Helped out common man, gov’t protects people not business  FDA, USDA, No Child Labor –New Tax System is instituted Graduated income tax –Roosevelt Breaks up Trust Clayton Antitrust Act

10. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM POLITICAL –Elections are reformed Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Direct Primary –Women get the right to vote 19 th Amendment

11. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT –Conservationists establish wilderness conservation areas and preserve natural resources National parks form –Yellow Stone National Park –Pure Food and Drug Act Protects consumers-

12. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM SOCIAL & MORAL –Women fight for right to vote- 19 th –Prohibition- 18 th Amendment bans alcohol –Social Services- »YMCA »SALVATION ARMY

13. OUTCOMES OF PROGRESSIVISM INDUSTRY –National Child Labor Committee organized to end child labor  children go to school –Reformers improve working conditions 8 hour workday Safe, clean environment Fire code- can’t lock doors, windows, new fire escape, more than 1 exit, etc

14. Complete the following (17-1) The Origins of Progressivism

15. Directions: Become a Muckraker Think about how Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair made you feel when you read “How the Other half Lives” and “The Jungle.” Now pick a problem that you feel strongly about and that you think the government should take action upon. Write a persuasively, descriptive letter or essay on your problem. Again think about how both authors made you feel when you read their stories

16. 1. what did the rose represent in Tupac’s poem? 2. Who was the progressive that we talked about when you 1 st came into class? What did he expose? List 3 of the reforms progressives were involved in?