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6.2: Progressive Reform

6.2: Progressive Reform. Follow along in the student packet: “Content students MUST KNOW to be successful on the GHSGT” (p. 107 - 108). Click Here. The Progressive Era (1890-1920).

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6.2: Progressive Reform

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  1. 6.2: Progressive Reform • Follow along in the student packet: “Content students MUST KNOW to be successfulontheGHSGT”(p.107-108) Click Here

  2. The Progressive Era (1890-1920) • Around the 1890s, the Social Gospel movement inspired many middle-class white Christians to clean up social problems caused by Gilded Age industrialism: • Reforms included improving living conditions in urban slums, child labor, factory safety, women’s rights, alcohol abuse, & political corruption

  3. History of Standard Oil helped push for the break-up of monopolies Muckraking Journalism The Jungle led the gov’t to pass the Meat Inspection Act in 1906

  4. Anti-Trust Reform

  5. Progressive Reform in the States • Progressives made state governments more democratic: • Initiatives—citizens (not politicians) can put an issue on a state ballot & vote to make laws • Referendums—citizens vote on an issue (such as tax increases) suggested by state legislatures • Recalls—citizens can remove an elected official by popular vote • 17th amendment allowed for the direct election of Senators

  6. Reforming Society • Social Reform: • JaneAddams’ settlement houses for poor urban workers • NAACP formed to help fight discrimination against blacks • 18th Amendment: prohibition • 19th Amendment: gave women the right to vote

  7. Investigative journalists who exposed corruption & dangerous practices of the nation’s businesses in the 20th century: 32 • Progressives • Populists • Socialists • Muckrakers 9 10

  8. The 19th amendment to the Constitution allowed for 32 • direct election of U.S. senators. • women's suffrage. • term limits for the presidency. • separate but equal public facilities 9 10

  9. They supported government regulation, not government ownership, of the nations industries and resources: 32 • Progressives • Populists • Socialists • Muckrakers 8 10

  10. This muckraking book exposed the unsanitary practices in the meat packing industry 32 • The Jungle • A History of Standard Oil • How the Other Half Lives • Looking Backward 9 10

  11. This was passed by Congress in 1890 in an attempt to regulate big business: 32 • Sherman Anti-Trust Act • Clayton Anti-Trust Act • Monopoly Act • Kellogg-Briand Pact 9 10

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