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US History

Learn about the Progressive movement in US history and their efforts to address urban growth, improve living conditions, fight corruption, and reform the workplace. Discover the role of muckrakers, the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire, and the push for electoral and government reforms.

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US History

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  1. US History You need your book today!

  2. Bell Ringer Campaigned to prohibit child labor, limit working hours, initiate minimum wage laws. Progressives attacked gov’t corruption at all levels • 1. What issues did Progressives focus on, and what helped energize their cause? • 2. How did Progressives try to reform society? • 3. How did Progressives fight to reform the workplace? • 4. How did Progressives reform gov’t at the national, state, and local levels? Practices of Big Business; Helping urban poor; Improving working conditions; Reforming gov’t; Newspapers and magazines gave publicity to their cause. By exposing the problems; Forming organizations to lobby for improvements.

  3. The Progressives Chapter 16 New York City’s Mulberry Street

  4. What the Heck is Progressivism? • Sought to address the new problems that came with the urban growth and industrialization • Improve living conditions of urban poor • Check the power of big business • Stop gov’t corruption and improve service • REFORM, REFORM, REFORM

  5. Ida Tarbell Exposed ruthless business practices of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil broke into Chevron, Amoco, Conoco, Exxon, and Mobil Muckrakers…Journalists expose problems and corruption

  6. Muckity Muckrakers • Novelist Upton Sinclair highlights poverty and the meatpacking industry with his book, The Jungle • “I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach”

  7. More Muckrakers… • Jacob Riis • Photojournalist whose book, How the Other Half Lives, showed the dirty underbelly of urban life

  8. Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire • Over 140 people died, mostly young immigrant women • Doors opened inward on 8th floor where fire started • Firefighters could spray water only to 7th floor • Fire ladders only reached between 6th and 7th floor • There were only two fire escapes • Doors locked to prevent theft

  9. Society Reform Housing Civil Rights National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Anti-Defamation League Workplace Reform Child Labor Laws 10 hour days Minimum Wage Unions International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union “We’d rather starve quick than starve slow” Uprising of 20,000 Industrial Workers of the World Reform, Reform, Reform

  10. Election Reform Direct Primaries Vote directly for candidates 17th Amendment Vote directly for Senators Secret Ballot or “Australian Ballot” All candidates of one sheet Initiative, Referendum, and Recall City and State Gov’t City Commission System Council-Manager System Regulation of RR utilities, transportation More Reform…

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