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The Era of Progressivism

The Ashcan & The Muckrake. The Era of Progressivism. Created by Mr. Johnson. 7.01 – Explain the conditions that led to the rise of Progressivism. Objective. Ashcan School Muckraking Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Upton Sinclair. Key Terms & People. Jacob Riis Frank Norris

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The Era of Progressivism

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  1. The Ashcan & The Muckrake The Era of Progressivism Created by Mr. Johnson

  2. 7.01 – Explain the conditions that led to the rise of Progressivism. Objective

  3. Ashcan School Muckraking Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Upton Sinclair Key Terms & People • Jacob Riis • Frank Norris • Urban slums • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  4. Wealth in the Gilded Age

  5. Mark Twain – The Gilded Age

  6. Distribution of Wealth • Top 1% of Population • 25% of nation’s wealth • Top 10% of population • 70% of nation’s wealth • Growing middle class • Large numbers of poor farmers and city dwellers Rich Poor

  7. Distribution of Wealth Homeless Children Andrew Carnegie

  8. The Ashcan School of Artists

  9. “The Apostles of Ugliness” The New York Realists

  10. “Eviction” Everett Shinn, 1904

  11. “Tugboat and Lighter”William Glackens, 1904

  12. “Paddy Flannigan” George Bellows, 1908

  13. “Dutch Joe” Robert Henri, 1910

  14. “McSorley’s Bar” John Sloan, 1912

  15. “Snow in New York” Robert Henri, 1901

  16. “Fire on 24th Street”Everett Shinn, 1907

  17. “A Stag at Sharkey’s Place” George Bellows, 1917

  18. Progressivism: The Social Gospel

  19. PROGRESSIVISM CivilRights ? Suffragettes Muckrakers Temperance Labor Unions Mid classWomen Old Popul ists

  20. Help the Poor? Help Yourself? Gospel of Wealth Progressivism & Social Gospel Unionism Socialism Communism Anarchism Rich Poor

  21. The Muckrakers

  22. Bunyan’s A Pilgrim’s Progress Digging up dirty secrets of government and business corruption… leads to reform What is a Muckraker?

  23. Jacob Riis Urban slums Upton Sinclair Meatpacking Ida Tarbell Standard Oil John Spargo Child Labor Who Were the Muckrakers? Frank Norris Western farmers Lincoln Steffens Municipal corruption Nellie Bly Mental Health McClure’s Magazine Leading muckraker magazine

  24. Muckraking & Yellow Journalism

  25. Trust-Busting

  26. “Wealth Against Commonwealth” Standard Oil Monopoly Henry Demarest Lloyd

  27. A History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) Anti-trust lawsuit Break-up of Standard Oil in 1911 Ida Tarbell

  28. Standard Oil & Rockefeller

  29. Poverty of Farmers & Immigrants

  30. Epic of Wheat trilogy Conflict between farmers and railroad companies Frank Norris

  31. Epic of Wheat

  32. How the Other Half Lives (1889) Urban slums Poverty Overcrowding Working conditions Sanitation Crime Jacob Riis

  33. How the Other Half Lives

  34. How the Other Half Lives

  35. How the Other Half Lives

  36. How the Other Half Lives

  37. Settlement houses Hull House, Chicago Jane Addams

  38. Settlement Houses

  39. Working Conditions

  40. John Spargo

  41. Florence Kelley • Sweatshops

  42. The Jungle (1906) Meatpacking industry Sanitation Working conditions Upton Sinclair

  43. The Jungle (1906)

  44. The Jungle (1906)

  45. Meatpacking Scandal

  46. Labeling & inspection of food & drugs Eventual creation of the FDA Sinclair “I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” WRAL Restaurant Inspections Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)

  47. Garment Factory New York City Young women workers Locked doors 145 dead Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)

  48. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)

  49. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)

  50. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)

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