Progressive Mini-Q

US History

DO NOT COPY• Topic: Progressive Reform DBQ• Objective: Students will be able to analyze primary and

secondary sources to write a 5-paragraph DBQ essay

• DO NOW: Take out your Document Analysis packet

• HW: (1) Study for the Midterm on Wednesday, Jan. 27th (2) Current Events online forum (3) Historical Context and claim for Progressive reform DBQ for Monday– Rough draft due Monday, Feb. 1st (4) Signed MCAS Contract due Tuesday, Jan. 26th

• Deforestation was a major problem in America due to Industrialization and the growth of the country.

Document A

Document A: Conservation Reform :• Preserved over 151

million acres of land• T. Roosevelt to set up

Yosemite Nat’l Park 1905• Why? “our people should see

to it that they are preserved for their children and their children’s children…”

• Chapter 9, Sect. 2 for reforms

Document B:

Child Labor: Lewis Hine• Hired by the National Child Labor

Committee (NCLC – est. 1914) to investigate & photograph the plight of America’s working children• Photography helped pass legislation

throughout the country. State by state the NCLC passed laws restricting child labor.– Chapter 8, Section 2 for reforms

Document C

Jane Addams• Not generally regarded as

a suffragist• Interested in social

reform• Realized women’s vote

was necessary to win support for reforms in education, tenement (renter) safety and food inspection

Document C: Women’s Suffrage• Movement began with the Seneca Falls

Convention of 1848• WY first state to grant full suffrage for women• By 1908, 27 states granted women some

voting rights (no vote for President or Congress)

Reform: 19th Amendment Chapter 9, Sect. 4

Document D:The Jungle –

Upton Sinclair

Document D:

Food Safety: Upton Sinclair• Life-long socialist• The Jungle was Sinclair’s 1st literary success• People sent T. Roosevelt angry letters

demanding meat-packing industry be more closely regulated

• Reform: Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress in 1906 Chapter 9, Sect. 2

Document E: How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

Document E: How the Other Half Lives

• Tenement Housing: Jacob Riis• Journalist and photographer who publicized

the wretched conditions in which many immigrants lived why is this important?

• Reform: New York State Tenement House Bill found in Chapter 8, Sect. 3

Document F: State Actions Affecting Working Conditions

• 1911 Recommendations of Illinois Commission on Occupational Disease (1909) result in Illinois Occupational Disease Act (ventilation, sanitation, fumes, temperature)

• 1911 Wisconsin becomes first state to pass workman’s compensation legislation • 1911 Wisconsin legislature limits hours of labor for women and children • 1911–1915 Recommendations of New York State Factory Investigating Commission

result in dozens of new laws creating healthier and safer factory working conditions during New York’s “golden era in remedial factory legislation”

• 1912 New York State Factory Investigating Commission requires automatic sprinklers for all floors above seventh floor of buildings; broadens regulation and inspection of workplace safety (fire escapes, safe gas jets, fireproof receptacles, escape routes, fire drills) 1912 Massachusetts passes first state minimum wage law

• 1913 Oregon law requires payment of overtime for workers in mills or factories (over ten hours a day)

Document G: Bosses of the SenatePoliticalProblems?

17th Amendment• . . . The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two

Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. . . .

• How does this help solve corruption in government?

Your Goal:

• To PROVE that the three Progressive reforms that you chose had the greatest impact on American society by citing 4 documents.

Historical Context

• Background information – use the Overview, background essay, textbook, and all other notes & handouts to…

(1) Identify a time period and location (US) (2) describe the conditions in society prior (before) to the Progressive Reform Era (3) provide an explanation/definition of “progressives” and (4) why the Progressive reform movement was needed: