Progressives

=Essential Questions=

Q1: What is the American Dream? Q2: Is Progress always positive? Q3: Is inequality justified in a capitalist system? Q4: What is the appropriate role of government in our lives?

*How can people make changes to areas of society they see as unjust?*Is life survival of the fittest? Should it be? Guided Reading - Progressives =Students will understand....=
 * *Industrialization and urbanization have positive and negative consequences. **
 * *Progressives work to address society’s inequalities. **
 * *Social Darwinists see life as a series of competitions in which the fittest survive. **

Ch 16 What did the Progressives stand for?
[|Overview of the Progressive Era - Teddy Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson] Muckraker - Organizer of Muckraking -Social Issues

=Upton Sinclair - //The Jungle//=

//New Muckraker Handout - Comparing Sources//

//[|2nd Jungle Paragraph]//

Read, Mark up and comment on one of the passages from the text of Upton Sinclair's //The Jungle.// Then tell your partner about the text of what you read. Together you will complete the APPARTS Chart for Upton Sinclair's novel as to what his purpose was for writing this work.
 * Please be advised that this is a fictional work***

Resolution to Upton Sinclair's Work!

 * ** Meat Inspection Act ** - 1906 - Inspection of meats crossing through different states by the gov't agency - USDA - (US Dept of Agriculture)
 * ** Pure Food and Drug Act ** 1906 Regulated the production/potential sale of food & medicines that might contain harmful ingredients

Urban Living Conditions Deplorable living conditions could found easily in any urban area. Simply put, growth in American industry attracted people looking for work in factories and therefore they had to live nearby in densely populated tenements houses. What is a tenement you ask?? - multilevel apartment houses that **did not** have to have running water, gas, or electricity. A NYC social worker(a new profession!) reported that 1,231 people were living in just 120 rooms. Another worker reported __**not** being able to locate a single bathtub in over 3 city blocks__ of tenements! Instead, some resident used common hall sinks located in some buildings. Of course disagreements broke out between people "Each would accuse the other of filling the sink with matter that belonged in the garbage barrel,and cleaning the sink was certainly dirty work"

Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant to the United States, used his camera lens to document living conditions in urban areas. In 1890, he published How the Other Half Lives which showed the unsanitary living conditions in the slums of New York City. His photos caused public outrage and pushed city governments to force landlords to improve living conditions. These living conditions were not limited to NYC

[|The Living City Exhibit] [|Reading - NY Tenement Act]





http://youtu.be/EACoIbokOcc =[|Jacob Riis - New Technology]=

Overview of Progressive video
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Progressive focused on three ares of reform: easing the suffering of the urban poor, improving unfair and dangerous working conditions, and reforming government at the state and local levels. Take notes identifying the various problems that the Progressives targeted and record the effects of the work of the Progressives. using the graphic organizer [|Progressive -Guided Reading]

The Progressive Era =The Progressive Era was a time period around the turn of the 20th Century in which people began to see the problems in their society and decided that things needed to be done to change those problems. Through work of the muckrakers, the many ills of society were exposed to the larger public in hope that change would be made. In many cases great change was accomplished.= ==

Directions: For this assignment you will focus on one of the problem areas that were addressed by the Progressives
=**Resources & Other Progressive Areas of Reform**= =[|Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire]= [|survivors of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire]

>> Also look for more info on this [|Tenement Museum Site] [|Sherman/Clayton Antitrust Act]
 * ===**__ Muckrakers/Progressive Reformers __**===
 * J**acob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Thomas Nast,[| Lillian Wald], Ida Wells Barnett,[| Jane Addams], [|W.E.B. Du Bois] see also the Niagara Movement a conference attended by those who sought change for African Americans, Sigmund Livingston, [|Florence Kelley], [|Ray Stannard Baker]**
 * http://www.somers.k12.ct.us/~pgoduti/resources.html - great resource!!
 * Child Labor - Project + [[file:///C:/Users/mhealy/Downloads/PhotoAnalysis.pdf|Pictures]]
 * ===__ Legislation __===
 * **16th Amendmen**t- Congress has the power to tax the people based on their personal wealth to use the $$ for gov't programs- INCOME TAX - 1913
 * **Federal Reserve Act**- created a banking system from which the Federal Gov't and other smaller could borrow $$ to prevent financial panic. Still in existence today
 * **19th Amendment** - Gave women of the United States the right to vote in 1920
 * ** Meat Inspection Act ** - 1906 - Inspection of meats crossing through different states by the gov't agency - USDA - (US Dept of Agriculture)
 * ** Pure Food and Drug Act ** 1906 Regulated the production/potential sale of food & medicines that might contain harmful ingredients
 * **Sherman Antitrust Act** - 1890 - Law that made monopolies illegal
 * **Clayton Antitrust Act**- 1914 - President Wilson's extension of Sherman Antitrust Act - illegal for companies to buy stock in another company in the same industry - which would create a monopoly - supported for the 1st time peaceful protests
 * **Tenement Act** of 1901 - Notably improvements to urban housing in such cities as New York, Boston, Cleveland etc - Be sure to look for the year [|1901]
 * ===__Progressive Presidents__===
 * ** Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson **
 * Progressive Matching Activity - See What you Know -I think that you should know what is highlighted, but try the rest for a challenge! **


 * Check your work **
 * Save your work into your wiki page- Progressives **

= Teddy Roosevelt's Presidency =
 * Teddy Roosevelt** was the governor of New York in 1898 & believed in many Progressive reforms. He rose to power in the Republican Party as the running mate of President William McKinley and was elected to be Vice-President of the United States, This got him out of the hair of the corrupt political machines of New York, but no one bargained on him becoming president! In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated promoting 42 year old Teddy to the presidency.



[| "No Mollycoddling Here"]

Teddy Roosevelt is remembered for championing many Progressive causes. Read/examine Teddy's work with Progressive issues and complete the following work & post it to your progressive wiki page

1).Read about TR's presidency and take notes - You can use the word document or create your own table on your wiki page 2). Image Detective: Choose one of the TR cartoons that shows his work with progressive issues & become the image detective: this is not an I See/It Means - similar but less steps - See below 2).Choose 1 of TR's famous quotes, copy & paste them onto your wiki - briefly discuss what this quote is talking about relates to a progressive issue
 * Pose questions,
 * Make observations
 * Draw a conclusionIf you want to find a different cartoon ...Be careful it must concern progressives)

[|Teddy Roosevelt Quotations]

[|TR Cartoon library] [|Sherman Antitrust Act]

Women's Reform Issues
==1)American women both black and white are striving for the same reforms. Describe in paragraph form why it was harder for African American women to make lasting reforms - be sure to explain the differences in segregation - see turn of the 20th century page to help or if using another source please cite the URL.==
 * ==White American Women==

Reform Issues
|| ==African American Women==

Reform Issues
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 * ending poverty || same ||
 * promoting child welfare || same ||
 * Prohibition || same ||
 * right to vote || same ||
 * || ==Jim Crow Laws - Segregation==

De Facto Segregation
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__2).What is Prohibition??__ (also known as Temperance Movement)
==Copy the pictures and watch the video. In a paragraph under the heading Prohibition, describe the Temperance Movement & the actions of Carrie Nation. What was the countries resolution to the problem?==

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[|Progressive Reform Notes Anthem] media type="custom" key="26926416" [|List of Progressive films]