reforms & reformers

REFORMS & REFORMERS

Unit 2Lesson 5

(Sections 18.1 – 18.4)

Objectives

Identify major problems in industry, urban areas, politics, and society that resulted from industrialization.

Cite specific reforms that were implemented to address these issues.

Create a political cartoon that highlights a key piece of progressive legislation.

Warm Up

Identify 2 of the 4 goals of the Progressive Movement.

Protect social welfare Promote moral

development Create economic

reform Rid government of

corruption

Review

Origins? Populist Mvmt

Issues? Effects of rapid

industrialization & urbanization

Expose? Muckrakers

Conditions Demand Reform

Reform Jigsaw Activity Urbanization Politics Industry Society

Directions Groups of 4 – 1 problem per person “Problems” get together Back to group of 4 to share “ Problems” back together, then do the same

with reforms & reformers Back to group of 4 to share

Industry

Problems Monopolies/trusts Lack union Price fixing Conditions Hours Child/women Product quality No interstate regs Low wages

Reforms Anti-trust Acts Collective Bargaining ICC and FTC Safety (fire) Accident Comp 8 hr day Min wage No child labor (14-16) Conservation

resources

Industry

Reformers Ida Tarbell – History of Standard Oil Upton Sinclair – The Jungle Eugene Debs - Socialists Florence Kelley – Child labor, hrs, sweatshops Mother Jones – org unions of workers (IWW) Teddy Roosevelt

Politics

Problems Machines & bosses Graft & kickbacks Corruption Patronage Election fraud Influence industry Lack women’s

voice

Reforms Home rule Commission/council Initiative Referendum Recall Secret ballot Direct primary Civil service 17th Amend 19th Amend

Politics

Reformers Robert LaFollette – Progressive Gov Lincoln Steffens – The Shame of the Cities Thomas Nast – poly cartoonist in NYC Suffragists – (Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady

Stanton) Lucretia Mott & Carrie Chapman Catt Teddy Roosevelt

Urban

Problems Immigration Overcrowding Tenements/slums Sanitation Water Crime & violence Poverty Health & disease

Reforms Quotas Building codes City services Playgrounds &

parks Police & fire Public transport Community

centers Free K

Urban

Reformers Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives

Social

Problems Discrimination Alcoholism Gambling Crime & violence Child Labor Prostitution Disease Pollution

Reforms NAACP Temperance & 18th

Amend YMCA & Salvation

Army Free K – citizenship

& literacy Ethnic social clubs &

settlement houses Conservation

Social

Reformers Jane Addams – Hull House Gifford Pinchot – conservation Booker T Washington– African American

vocational training WEB DuBois – African American legal rights

Activity 2

In your groups, create a political cartoon that highlights the piece of legislation you were given.

Closure

How successful were Progressives in achieving each of their four goals?