Homework: Review Book Unit 2, part 2 due 3/14, 3 pg Research paper due Friday 3/17

1. 3/7 Day 4-Take out Progressive Era- MUCKRAKERS& Reformers packet. Grab your poster envelope. Do the math. (add then divide by 4) Learning Target: I can closely read for relevant information on a Reformer or Muckraker. Bad Romance- Woman's Suffrage Homework: Review Book Unit 2, part 2 due 3/14, 3 pg Research paper due Friday 3/17

2. Sherman & Clayton Anti Trust Acts-outlawed monopolies and price fixing Muckrakers-Journalists and Artists that EXPOSED Corruption and Injustice • IDA TARBELL-wrote a book “History of Standard Oil” • UPTON SINCLAIR- “The Jungle” • LINCOLN STEFFENS- wrote a book-“Shame of the Cities” • 17th Amendment- Direct election of Senators- MORE DEMOCRACY • JACOB RIIS-“How the Other Half Lives” • JOHN SPARGO- “Bitter Cry of the Children” The abuses and hardship of children in the coal mines. Ruthless practices of Standard Oil and Monopolies Pure Drug and food Act- outlawed mislabeling or diluting foods Dangerous and unsafe conditions in meat packing industry. Political corruption in city government, Boss Tweed Department of Labor & Dept. of Commerce- Worker & Consumer Protections Condition of the poor in New York City tenements (living conditions). Department of Labor & Dept. of Commerce- Worker & Consumer Protections

3. REFORMERS Goals were to bring Change JANE ADDAMS- Problems of Poverty- crowded housing, unsafe living conditions. • Social Settlement movement- Hull house • provided education, child care, finding jobs for workers and immigrants. Created building codes for safer living conditions. Child Labor- National Child Labor Committee- forced state laws to end child labor. Women’s Suffrage Movement- Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony fought to get women the right to Vote. Wrote- Declaration of Sentiments- Seneca Falls Convention Alice Paul- Equal treatment of women, Hunger strike, National Marches, led to 19th Amendment-right to vote

4. REFORMERS Goals were to bring CHANGE • Booker T Washington- Urged Vocational training for African Americans- Tuskegee Institute. 14th Amendment- equal rights • SamualGomper- Created American Federation of Labor protested for better wages and working conditions. • W.E.B. DuBois- Created NAACP protested unfair treatment of A.A. and supported education. 14th Amendment- equal rights • Ida B. Wells- Fought to end lynching, demanded women get the right to Vote and founding member of NAACP. • Carry Nation- founding member of Women’s Temperance MovementLed to the passing of the 18th Amendment- banning alcohol. Later repealed with the 21st Amendment.

5. REFORMS -Goals were to bring CHANGE and they did! CITY GOVERNMENT- Demanded an end to Political Machines, bribes in return for favors. Set up City Commissioner, or City Manager STATE GOVERNMENTS- Legislation for Steffens and Nast • Secret ballot- bosses could no longer intimidate workers to vote a certain way. • Initiatives- ex: Prop 8 (No same-sex marriage) or legalization of marijuana in Colorado • Referendums- voters decide on amendments to state constitutions • Recall- forces elected official out of office between elections. • Direct primary- allows voters to elect candidates to represent each party. • 17th Amendment- Direct election of Senators- MORE DEMOCRACY.

6. Progressive Reforms • Which heading best completes the partial outline below?
 • I. ___________________________
    A. Secret ballot
    B. Direct election of senators
    C. Recall
    D. Referendum • Which law was passed as a result of muckraking literature? • Muckrakers contributed to the rise of Progressivism in the early years of the 20th century by • During the Progressive Era, Jane Addams responded to urban conditions by working to establish • A goal of the Progressive movement was to • Progressive Era reforms such as the initiative, referendum, and recall attempted to • Progressive Era authors such as Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair are best known for Meat Inspection Act exposing widespread corruption in business and government settlement houses that provided assistance to the poor correct the problems caused by industrialization increase the power of citizens in state and local government focusing attention on social conditions

7. 2. The purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act (1887), the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), and the Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) was to 3. Jacob Riis, in How the Other Half Lives, and Lincoln Steffens, in The Shame of the Cities, contributed to reform movements in the United States by 4. Lincoln Steffens and Jane Addams are best known for “Jane Addams Opens Hull House”
“Jacob Riis Photographs Tenement Residents”
“Ida Tarbell Exposes Standard Oil Company”
 5. These headlines represent efforts by REGENTS QUESTIONS How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1890) The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1906) The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939) Unsafe at Any Speed, Ralph Nader (1965) 1. What has been the impact of these authors and their books on American society These works have had significant influence on social, political, and economic reforms. eliminate unfair business practices exposing poverty and corruption attempting to ease the problems of the urban poor correct abuses of the Industrial Revolution