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Warm up

Warm up. Introduction to Progressivism

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Warm up

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  1. Warm up • Introduction to Progressivism • Imagine: The year is 1900. You have always been a “glass is half-empty” kind of person. However, as your New Year’s resolution, you have decided to try to be more optimistic about things. You have decided to make a list of all of the good things in America. You can’t, however, forget all of the negatives, so while you are making a list of all of the positives, you list beside that everything that is wrong/could improve in the country at that time.

  2. “Gilded Age” • Looked nice on the outside, truly was CORRUPT and dirty on the inside • Now we are on Progressive Era

  3. PROGRESSIVE “ERA” SYNONYMS: • GROWING • DEVELOPING “making progress towards better conditions” …Why the Indians wonderful stadium is called “Progressive Field” 

  4. Goals of the Progressive Era • 1. Protecting Social Welfare • 2.Promoting Moral Improvement • 3.Creating Economic Reform • 4.Reforming Local Government

  5. Protecting Social Welfare Attempt to soften harsh conditions of Industrialism Returning Power to the People

  6. Protecting Social Welfare: Reforms • YMCA & Salvation Army created • Established soup kitchens & recreational facilities • Keating-Owen Act • 1916 ban goods produced by child labor • Muller v. Oregon • limited women to a 10 hour workday

  7. Promoting Moral Improvement Good Morals = Good Life Returning Power to the People

  8. Promoting morals: reforms • Temperance/Prohibition • - Alcohol was undermining • American morals • Women’s Christian Temperance Union • - largest women’s group is U.S. history • - 245,00 members by 1911

  9. Returning Power to the People

  10. Creating Economic Reform Separating Business and Politics Narrowing Gap Between Upper and Lower Class Returning Power to the People

  11. Economic Reforms • Many Americans question capitalism and begin to see big business as corrupt • *Robber Barons! • Some embrace socialism • -Eugene V. Debs

  12. Reforming Local Government Giving Power Back to the People Holding Officials Accountable Returning Power to the People

  13. Government Reforms • Wisconsin Gov. Robert M. La Follette • “Fighting Bob” • 3 term governor • goal: drive corporations out of politics • main target: railroads

  14. 17th Amendment - 1913 - Direct Election of Senators Returning Power to the People

  15. Initiative • a ballot bill by the people instead of lawmakers • Referendum • a vote on the initiative • Recall • public officials face another election before the end of their term What do all three of these reforms have in common?

  16. Natural disasters play role in reforming city Governments - state/local governments botch disaster relief efforts Sound Familiar?

  17. Muckrakers • Journalists and other writers who reveal (show) the need for reform. • Their investigative reports uncover the problems and make people want to reform them Muckrakers get their name from Theodore Roosevelt who said they were too interested in the ugly side of things. A Muckrake is something used to clean manure out of animal’s stables

  18. In your groupsUse the information in the muckraker folder to complete your chart.

  19. *Research Booker T. Washington and W.E. DuBois • Top of sheet create a Venn Diagram comparing the two men’s ideas for African Americans • Bottom: Create a RAFT Role: African American living in the South in 1900 Audience: Letter to the Editor Format: Letter Topic: Who has the better plan for African Americans? Why?

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