What does it mean to be “progressive”?

What kind of improvements did America need?

Why does it go from 1890 and stops at 1914?

Intro: Progressive Era?

The Progressive EraGuided Reading as a class:

US Coach Book – Lesson 18 “The Rise of Progressivism”

Pages 140 - 143

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Who were the Progressives?

Grange

Populists

Suffragists

Temperance

- Farmer’s party (west)

- Women’s Vote

- People’s Party

- Limit Alcohol

Society’s Inequalities: Economic Gaps

Lack of Social Services

Badly needed improvements: - Social Welfare - Moral Improvements - Economic reforms - Efficiency

- Sanitation, Trash, Protection

- Hardly NO Middle Class

Muckrakers:

Journalists who exposed graft and corruption in

society.

Ida Tarbell

Jacob Riis “How to Other Half Live”

Lincoln Steffens

She wrote about abuses of

Standard Oil Company!

- Corruption in urban politics

- Abuses of Standard Oil Company

- Immigrant poor NY, tenements

Click on camera for link to Jacob Riis photo

gallery

Reforming Gov’t:

Robert M. La Follette – - Direct Primary, all party members could vote for candidate in gen. election.

Referendums –

Recall –

Initiatives -

Direct election of Senators

- Vote someone OUT of office

- Citizen vote directly on - proposed laws w/o Legislature

- People introduce new lawThese ALL increase citizens' role in gov’t ,

making it more democratic.- 17th. Amendment

Women’s Suffrage – slow start, many abolitionists also.

Western States – granted voting rights, some wanted to amend US Constitution.

Middle Class women supported it, organized protests.

• Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone

• Carrie Chapman Catt – leader of NAWSA, threw support behind Wilson, picketed, speeches, blocked sidewalks, chained,

etc.

• Nineteenth Amendment passed Aug. 1920

Music Video

Suffrage

“The Bitter Cry of the Children” by Muckraker

John Spargo 1906. - Highlighted children in mines.

Result: – Set Minimum age

Limit on child labor, Max hrs worked.

Child Labor:

Pressure to create

workers’ compensation laws – illness / injuries.

Zoning Laws Building Codes Fire Escapes Health Codes

Health & Safety Codes:

18 Minutes = 146 DeadMarch 25, 1911

Prohibition Movement:

Alcohol causes of many of societies’ problems.

Temperance – limitProhibition – Complete Ban

Help stop abuse,Work production rise,

18th. Amendment Video Clip

Public outcry to regulate Big Business.

Prevent abusing

public. Ex. ICC. Gov’t should run some business for

benefit of all.

Progressives vs. Big Business

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