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CS 14: I can…evaluate the success of progressive reforms in addressing problems associated with industrial capitalism, urbanization & political corruption.

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Progressive Reform Movement:What?

•Identify and Solve problems associated with the Industrial Revolution (1890s-1920s)Why? • Social, Political, and Economic disparity.How?

1. Get Public attention2. Use the government to fix those

problemsWho?•Middle to upper-middle class•Urban/city dwellers•High educated•Lots were women

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Who got them started:MuckrakersJournalists that investigated and exposed problems

• Ida Tarbell• Upton Sinclair• Lincoln Steffen’s• Jacob Riis

“Why can’t we apply scientific methods to solving societal problems?”

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Progressives – Attacked Problems in 4 Areas.

Workplace & CitiesEnvironmentPolitical Reforms

In Three different Locations:National ReformsState ReformsLocal Reforms

Social Reforms

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And it became a reform movement:

Workplace and CitiesProblems Reforms/Reformers

1. Slum Life

2. Workplace

Tenement House Act = bathroom + courtyard

Hull House = Immigrant education and shelter. Provided education, job training, day care, medical care to poor immigrants

National Child Labor Committee= limited work hours for children

Workers compensation

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And it became a reform movement:

Consumer ProtectionProblems Reforms/Reformers

1. Unsafe Products

2. Monopolies

Meat-Inspection Act Pure Food & Drug

Act

Sherman Anti-Trust Act – attempted to limit the growth of monopolies.

This is the Start of weakening our Laissez-faire economy

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And it became a reform movement:

Problems Reforms/Reformers

1. Landscape

2. Natural Resources

3. Pollution

Sierra Club—worked on preservation = the protection of wilderness

US. Forest Service, National Wildlife Refuge System, National Park System—

Conservation = limited use of resources in urban development

Environment

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And it became a reform movement:

Political Reforms

Political Problems Reforms/Reformers

1. Corrupt Government

a. Political Machines and Bosses

b. Local/State

c. Federal

Civil Service Reform & Pendleton Act = limit patronage and guidelines for hiring gov’t workers

Recall= process to remove elected official

Initiative = giving citizens power to propose laws

Referendum – giving citizens power to vote on proposed laws

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And it became a reform movement:

Social ReformsSocial Problems Reforms/Reformers

Social Class

African Americans

Women

Families (see next slide also)

NAACP- fought to end racial discrimination through the courts & protect voting rights

NAWSA + 19th Amendment (women suffrage)

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And it became a reform movement:

Other Family ReformsSocial Problems Reforms/Reformers

Drinking WCTU - Women’s Christian Temperance Union

•18th Amendment - Prohibited making/selling alcohol (Prohibition)

Carry NationTemperance supporter Carry Nation speaks out against alcohol holding a Bible and a hatchet. Nation was famous for taking a hatchet to bar fixtures and stock

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Political Reforms

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Failure of the Progressive MovementWhite, middle class reform

Women, blacks, and farmers

Divided LeadershipBooker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

13“Bosses of the Senate” What does it mean?

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The Jungle, Upton Sinclair:It was only when the whole ham was spoiled that it came into the department of Elzbieta. Cut up by the two-thousand-revolutions-a-minute flyers, and mixed with half a ton of other meat, no odor that ever was in a ham could make any difference. There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; 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 and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. 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 on it. It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together. This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one - there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit.