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Chapter 2 – Social Reform Movement of the early-mid 1800’sTemperance, Prison & Mentally ill, Education, Women’s Rights, AbolitionChapter 5 – IndustrializationLaissez-Faire, Pro-business & Anti-unionChapter 6 – Gilded Age Immigration and Industrialization led to rise in poverty. How do we solve?
Chapter 8 The Progressive Movement A time when many Americans tried to improve society.
Who were the Progressives? • Democrats and Republicans • Educated • Middle Class • Journalists • Social Workers • Educators • Politicians • Clergy
The Muckrakers • Investigative journalists who single-mindedly scraped up the filth on the ground, ignoring everything else. They were obsessed with scandal and corruption.
The Jungle • “There would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white – it would be dosed with borax (bleach) and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption…There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about (upon) it.”
Create Your Own Progressive Political Cartoon • Choose one of the issues Progressives wanted to improve: Government, Big Business, Alcohol Consumption, Child Labor, Women’s Suffrage, Food and Medicine Safety, Health and Safety Codes. Read more about it in Chapter 8. • Create a political cartoon from the perspective of a Progressive. You want to illustrate the problem in a way that convinces people that it needs to be fixed. • Your cartoon should have a title and it should use a combination of symbolism, stereotypes, exaggerations, and opinions. • Don’t make the point of your cartoon too easy to understand, make the viewer think about the message you are sending.
Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson The Progressive Presidents Assignment