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What are progressives?

What are progressives?. Hint: Look at the word. People who wanted to improve the government and make life better. Roosevelt and his supporters were called progressives. Progressives and Reforms. EQ: How did people work to improve life in the early 1900s? February 10. The Square Deal.

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What are progressives?

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  1. What are progressives? • Hint: Look at the word. • People who wanted to improve the government and make life better. • Roosevelt and his supporters were called progressives

  2. Progressives and Reforms EQ: How did people work to improve life in the early 1900s? February 10

  3. The Square Deal • Started by Roosevelt • Goal = to give people fair treatment • Set up commissions – Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, Meat Inspection Act • Broke up monopolies (John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company)

  4. Conservation • What’s that? (It was one of your vocabulary words…) • It’s a way to protect the environment by keeping natural resources from being wasted or destroyed. • Roosevelt set aside millions of acres of land for parks!

  5. Robert La Follette • Governor of Wisconsin • Stopped favoritism by giving tests • Workday couldn’t exceed ten hours • Listed jobs that children could not be hired for • State would pay workers who got hurt on the job By 1918, 20 states copied the “Wisconsin Idea”

  6. William Tweed • Best known political boss • Ran NYC for years robbing millions of $$$ • Progressives said city governments should make up commissions

  7. What about the prejudices against African Americans? • W.E.B. Du Bois – 1909 formed the NAACP • What’s that? • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  8. What about the children? • 1914 – almost every state passed laws that made it illegal to hire children below a certain age • Did it work? • Sort of…no federal law yet

  9. Prohibition…What’s that? • Plan to stop people from drinking alcoholic beverages • 1919 – 18th Amendment passed making production, sell, and transportation illegal • Did it work? • Nah, people still found ways! • 1931 – 21st Amendment repealed the 18th

  10. Smash, ladies, Smash! • Carry Nation

  11. Reflection • Who were progressives? • What was the Square Deal? • What does “boss rule” mean? • Who was W.E.B. Du Bois? • Name some changes that improved society!

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