Feb. 5 US II

• Goal: Discover why change was necessary to clean up early 20th century America

• QOD: Define muckraker• Agenda: Read The Jungle –excerpt by Upton

Sinclair, powerpoint on modern day muckrakers• HW: pros and cons due• Ida Tarbell due tomorrow• All signed paperwork due• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8-E8may2Y

MUCKRAKERS CRITICIZE BIG BUSINESS

• Though most progressives did not embrace socialism, many writers saw the truth in Debs’ criticism

• Journalists known as “Muckrakers” exposed corruption in business

• Ida Tarbell exposed Standard Oil Company’s cut-throat methods of eliminating competition

Ida Tarbell

Some view Michael Moore as a modern muckraker

Teddy Roosevelt

• Creates the Meat Inspection Act-safe ingredients and freshness of meat

• Creates Pure Food and Drug Act (truth in labeling)

Problems today and Advocacy Groups

FDA Filth allowances

PETA- Advocates for animal crueltySocial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNxcylWLEH8 Steve-O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rX-qnZgxhIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=gBrWVUnFNi8propaganda: Tugs at the heartstrings, over-

exaggeration, appeals to heart and mind

PSA Social Issues

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGE8LzRaySk

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAGQN-YQa8

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STHpMUYeznQ

1.PROTECT SOCIAL WELFARE• Problem: Industry in the late

19th century was largely unregulated, women and children had no rights

• Solution: Settlement homes and churches served the community

• Also the YMCA and Salvation Army took on service roles

2. PROMOTE MORAL DEVELOPMENT

• Problem: Some reformers felt that the answer to societies problems was personal behavior

• Solution:They proposed such reforms as prohibition

• Groups wishing to ban alcohol included the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

3. Create Economic Reform

• Problem: The Panic of 1893 led people to believe that capitalism was bad

• Solution: Some people will embrace Socialism

• Eugene Debs will organize the American Socialist Party in 1901

4. FOSTERING EFFICIENCY

• Problem: The demand for products outweighed the production of goods.

• Solution: Many Progressive leaders put their faith in scientific principles to make society better

• Production line-increase rate at which goods were produced

Time to make your own PSA

• Directions• Example of student work• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=BGm8QRvIA0A• Your issue should address the goals of

reformers, social, economic, moral, or efficiency

• Examples, Homelessness (economic), police brutality (moral), domestic abuse (moral), sexual harassment (moral), computers replacing workers (efficiency), job equality (economic, social), environment (social, moral)