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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?
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The Progressive EraGuided Reading as a class:
US Coach Book – Lesson 18 “The Rise of Progressivism”
Pages 140 - 143
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Note Page 29
“The Progressive Era”
By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School
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Who were the Progressives?
Grange
Populists
Suffragists
Temperance
- Farmer’s party (west)
- Women’s Vote
- People’s Party
- Limit Alcohol
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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:
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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
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Prohibition Movement:
Alcohol causes of many of societies’ problems.
Temperance – limitProhibition – Complete Ban
Help stop abuse,Work production rise,
18th. Amendment Video Clip
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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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Note Page 29
“The Progressive Era”
By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School