Battling the Octopus

The Rise of Progressivism in America

TAH Osceola County19 September 2009

Sales Outlets

Finished ProductsStructural Steel, Rails, Etc.

Steel Ingot Production

Pig Iron Production

Raw MaterialsIron ore, Coal, Limestone, Etc.

Vertical Integrationat

Carnegie Steel

Company A:Refining

Standard Oil:Refining

Company B:Refining

Independent Crude Oil Producers

Consumers of Distilled Products (Kerosene, Petroleum, Etc.)

1899

1906

Progressives and Meat

1907

“Fighting Bob” La Follette

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)

Settlement House Movement

Louis Brandeis

A Traffic in Souls (1913)

Victor Berger and Eugene Debs

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

W.E.B. Du Bois