Essential Question:How did the backgrounds of Mother Jones, John Muir and Ida Tarbell lead to their work as Progressive Era reformers and to what extent were their efforts successful? Use examples from the video to support your answer.

Bell Ringer Activities: 25 Minutes

1. Answer the USA Test Prep (you may write on the sheet)2. Complete your Essential Question from the video yesterday. If

you were absent yesterday, you will need to attend Smart Lunch to make up this assignment

3. Take a vocabulary sheet from the plastic box up front.4. Turn in EQ when complete.

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA1890-1920Chapter 13

“When I say I believe in a square deal I do not mean…to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come,

and he had not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.”

Theodore Roosevelt, 1905

WHAT IS PROGRESSIVISM?

A time period when people in America began to favor progress toward better conditions in government and society.

How was Progressivism in conflict with the idea of “individualism” of the Gilded Age?

While reformers came from all classes and walks of life, what social class was mainly responsible for this social movement?

PROGRESSIVE ROOTS

REORMISTS ROOTS WENT BACK TO LABOR PARTY AND POPULIST PARTY

Opposition to “LAISSEZ-FAIRE”

SOCIALISTS PROTESTANTS FEMINISTS

MUCKRAKERS Exposing of evil became a

flourishing industry Lincoln Steffens “The

Shame of the Cities” Ida Tarbell “The History of

Standard Oil Co.” Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”

Wrote about social evils as well

Abuses of child labor Disenfranchisement of

blacks

UPTON SINCLAIR

THE JUNGLEMEAT

INSPECTION ACT

PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT

“POWER TO THE PEOPLE”

DIRECT PRIMARY INITIATIVE REFERENDUM RECALL DIRECT ELECTION OF

SENATORS WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Reforming Local Government

Lincoln Steffens exposes graft and fraud in local governments Commissioner plan City Manager plan

Robert La Follette targets the Railroad industry State officials could no longer ride the railroad

for free Began regulating rates charged to customer

PROGRESSIVE WOMEN

Settlement houses Female activists

Susan B. Anthony Carrie A. Nation

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

Women Christian Temperance Union

Pursuit of Pleasure

Baseball Vaudeville Ragtime Jazz Silent Movies Freud, birth control,

attention to prostitution all made sexuality more open

Make the Workplace More Efficient

Henry Ford pioneers the assembly line in factories Workers paid $5 a day 8 hour work week Workers were like machines

MODEL T!

Roosevelt’s “SQUARE DEAL” for Labor

Program embraced the three “C’s”

Control of the corporations Consumer protection Conservation of natural

resources (created national parks)

Election of 1912 BallotElection of 1912 Ballot

Election Results: What’s going on here!?

Election Results: What’s going on here!?

Republicans Divided by Bull Moose = Democratic

Victory!

Republicans Divided by Bull Moose = Democratic

Victory!