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U.S. History

U.S. History. Western Expansion 1860-1890 Gilded Age 1870-1890. Progressive Era 1890-1920 Populist Movement 1860-1900 ( a progressive movement of farmers wanting inflation and government regulation of major services). Progressive Era. Circa 1890-1920.

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U.S. History

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  1. U.S. History Western Expansion 1860-1890 Gilded Age 1870-1890 Progressive Era 1890-1920 Populist Movement 1860-1900 (a progressive movement of farmers wanting inflation and government regulation of major services)

  2. Progressive Era Circa 1890-1920

  3. Progressive Era: Defining Special Terms*=see notes • Progressive--reform • Prohibition—making alcohol illegal • City manager—appointed administrator of a city • Referendum/initiative—when voters can decide state issues and laws with ballots • Recall—taking a public official out of office after their election • Primary—first election to select candidates for office • Yellow journalism* • Muckraking* • Political corruption—using government for private gain 10. Conservation--environmentalism • “trustbuster”—politician who enforced anti-trust laws • Suffrage—right to vote • Civil Rights—working toward equal rights for races • NAACP—Civil Rights organization 15. Social gospel—duty to help the poor 16. Workmen’s Compensation—requirement of insurance for people hurt on the job 17. Populist Party—People’s Party who sponsored farmers’ issues

  4. Film: Causes—Progressive Era and Today • The expansion of the U.S. into the West and the development of industry and cities in the East led to lots of issues and problems. • The Progressive Era attempted to address and solve those problems and issues. • Today’s world has lots of problems and issues that people embrace as causes. • What is your cause? • What would be your cause during the Progressive Era? • View the film and list 10 causes and starfour you would take on.

  5. The Progressive Era is driven by personalities! • Teddy Roosevelt • Woodrow Wilson • Susan B. Anthony • Booker T. Washington • W.E.B. DuBois • William Randolph Hearst • Pulitzer • Rockefeller and Carnegie • Middle class women • Frank Lloyd Wright • Northern Issues • Southern Issues • Western Issues

  6. Yellow Journalism Exaggerated news to sell newspapers Tended to sensationalize events for the purpose of entertainment and profit Most notable were papers owned by Hearst and Pulitzer

  7. Muckrakers • Early 20th century journalists who exposed illegal business practices, social injustices and corrupt urban political bosses • Exposed urban problems • The rise of mass circulation newspapers and magazines enabled muckrakers to reach a large audience. • Leading muckrakers included Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell, Ida Wells, Lewis Hine, Thomas Nast, Lincoln Steffens

  8. TR called Upton Sinclair a muckraker

  9. Film: The Progressive Movement(for each topic, write a detailed sentence) • Women Take the Lead • A Clash of Cultures • Muckrakers and Bosses • Fighting the Trust • Roosevelt and Wilson • Freedom? Whose Freedom? • Women Suffragists

  10. William Tweed, the boss of the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine • He was arrested, tried and imprisoned

  11. Thomas Nast exposed the political machine of Tammany Hall and its political boss, William Tweed

  12. Nast drew the symbols of the two political parties

  13. Nast also drew this familiar image

  14. Reconstruction—rebuilding the South after the Civil War • Northern occupation • Southern resentments • Temporary rights for freedmen • Freedmen’s Bureau • Cycle of poverty started with sharecropping • Interpret the cartoon…

  15. Post Civil War Efforts and Legacy • Reconstruction (1865-1877) • Textile mills and infrastructure (“New South”) • Republican dominance • Solid South voted Democrat • Black Codes and “Jim Crow” legislation • Rise and fall of the Klan • Segregation and legacy of sharecropping, tenant farming, and poverty

  16. Nast exposed Reconstruction atrocities • Describe the horrors of Reconstruction (1865-77) as shown in the political cartoon. • How would Northerners respond to this cartoon? Southerners? • How would African Americans respond?

  17. Civil Rights Issues • Segregation—two kinds • De jure segregation— “by law”—in South • De facto segregation— “by tradition”—in North

  18. Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois Civil Rights Leaders

  19. The Atlanta Compromise • The Atlanta Compromise was an agreement struck in 1895 between Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, and other African-American leaders, and Southern white leaders. It was opposed by W. E. B. Du Bois and other African-American leaders. • Education was limited to vocational programs • It promoted “accommodation”, not activism

  20. Plessy v. Ferguson • Louisiana train • Southern tradition vs. 14th Amendment (rights of citizenship) • Decision was a HUGE SETBACK for Civil Rights Promoted “separate but equal” doctrine and extended segregation for 70 more years!

  21. Temperance led to Prohibition • Frances Willard led the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) • Carrie Nation “axed” saloons and bars • 18th Amendment passed in 1920 (was repealed by 21st Amendment in 1933)

  22. Women marched for suffrage (the right to vote!)

  23. Women got the vote in 1920! • See video of women’s suffrage • See Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (PBS: American Experience)

  24. Helen Keller (1880-1968)

  25. Music • Ragtime by Scott Joplin • Tin Pan Alley songs by George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin

  26. J.P. Morgan • Considered most powerful man in the country • Until… • Sued by government over monopolies • Sealed TR’s reputation as a trustbuster

  27. Roosevelt • http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/theodore-roosevelt

  28. YMCA and YWCA—promoted health of youth • Disasters led communities to reform: • Examples: Blizzard of 1888 (led to National Weather Service) • Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (6000 dead—led to sea wall) • Floods of Mississippi Delta and Ohio River • Cities controlled utilities • Changed view of what government should be and should do

  29. 1910--New ideas of Government? • Be accountable to the people • Curb the power of the wealthy • Protect workers • Improve lives of citizens • Become more efficient and less corrupt • Control only utility businesses (water, gas, electricity)

  30. A New Brand of Patriotism • The Pledge of Allegiance was written in the 1890s by Francis Bellamy • changed in 1920s by Daughters of the American Revolution • changed again in 1950s by Knights of Columbus • “America the Beautiful was written by Katherine Bates in the 1890s

  31. Progressive Era Posters Raised Awareness

  32. Sort the issues • Home • Conservation • State/Local Reforms • Finance • Politicians • Women • Civil Rights • Labor • Federal Legislation • Other Reformers

  33. Answers to 1-10 • 1. Home Issues: social gospel, birth control, women’s suffrage, meat, education, poverty, architecture, prohibition, 18th amendment, 19th amendment, child labor laws, universities, yellow journalism, muckraking • 2. Conservation Issues (see #XIII): water rights, forest management, national parks, public parks, landscaping, Sierra Club, Boy Scouts, T. Roosevelt’s presidency, U.S. Forest Service, Frederick Law Olmstead

  34. 3. State and Local Reforms: city managers, commissioners, secret ballot, referendums, initiatives, direct primaries, recall elections, prohibition, political corruption and machines, meat, food and drugs, settlement houses, poverty, lynching, architecture, conservation, women’s rights, birth control, socialism, unions, civil rights, education, social gospel, corporate welfare, segregation

  35. 4. Finance Reform: trustbusting, Sherman Anti-trust Act, Clayton Anti-trust Act, History of Standard Oil, break up of the Rockefeller monopoly, Federal Reserve Bank, corporate welfare, Workmen’s Compensation, unions, Department of Labor • 5. Politicians: T. Roosevelt, W. Wilson, C.E. Hughes, H. Hoover, W.J. Bryan, Al Smith, Eugene Debs, Robert La Follette

  36. 6. Women’s Issues: suffrage, education, child labor, prohibition, universities, social gospel, Civil Rights, architecture, settlement houses, social work, poverty, meat, food, drugs, political corruption, muckraking, reforming local and state governments • 7. Civil Rights: lynching, education, African American universities, NAACP, Niagra Movement, Plessy case, segregation, “separate but equal”, unions, poverty

  37. 8. Labor: unions, socialists, Workmen’s Compensation, income tax, corporate welfare, Department of Labor, child labor laws, mandatory education laws, Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Act, trustbusting, Sherman Anti-trust Act, Clayton Anti-trust Act, social gospel • 9. Federal Legislation: Amendments 16, 17, 18, 19, Federal Reserve Act, Sherman Anti-trust Act, Clayton Anti-trust Act, Workmen’s Compensation, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Creation of U.S. Parks and Forests, child labor laws, mandatory education laws, National Park Service

  38. 10. Other Reformers (not politicians): Ida Wells, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Sanger, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, DuBois and Washington, Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, Thomas Nast, Pulitzer and Hearst, Lewis Brandeis, Henry Ford

  39. STAAR Amendments (Federal Legislation) 13th—free 14th—citizens 15th—vote 16th—income tax 17th—election of senators 18th—no alcohol 19th—women’s vote

  40. Who is on STAAR? Politicians, Reformers, Activists • Hearst and Pulitzer—publishers • Wright and Sullivan—architects • T. Roosevelt—conservation/trustbuster • Susan B. Anthony—suffrage • Eugene Debs—union and socialist leader • Booker T. Washington—Civil Rights education • W.E.B.DuBois—Civil Rights—NAACP • Jane Addams—Hull House/social worker • Henry Ford—cars and corporate welfare (affordable) • Upton Sinclair—The Jungle • Ida Wells—exposed lynching numbers • Frances Willard—leader of Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Woodrow Wilson—President/Workmen’s Compensation • William Jennings Bryan—Populist candidate for President--lion

  41. STAAR Ideas • Political machines—organizations using rewards and gain for political service • Civil service reform—efforts to end political corruption • Labor unions—organizations of workers • Women’s suffrage—women’s right to vote • Civil Rights—effort toward political and social equality for minorities • Social Gospel—application of Christian ethics to social problems • Initiative—issue put to a vote after a petition • Referendum—voters accept or reject a proposal • Recall—voters can remove an elected official through their vote • Muckrakers—journalists who expose the negatives in society • Eugenics— “good genes”—effort to alter genetic traits—a form of “scientific racism” based on faulty “science” • Prohibition—legal ban on sale or transportation of alcohol • Tin Pan Alley—the “new” music of New York • Populists—third party supported by farmers

  42. Illustration of Progressive Issue • Topic (number and title) • Terms/Issues • Picture—can be drawn or computer printout • Vivid and clear words and picture • Bonus points for color • (Consider this a “cheat sheet”)

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